Todd Deatherage

Todd Deatherage is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Telos Group. He spent sixteen years in senior positions in the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government before co-founding the Telos Group. From 2005 to 2009, Todd was Chief of Staff in the Secretary of State’s Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. He also spent two years as Senior Advisor in the Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom, where he specialized in religious freedom in the Middle East. Todd worked for a decade in the U.S. Congress, including six years as Chief of Staff to Senator Tim Hutchinson. He is a native Arkansan and a graduate of the University of Arkansas. Todd began his career as an educator. He and his family live in Fairfax County, Virginia.

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Todd Deatherage

Every Bombed Village Is My Hometown

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Dennis R. Edwards

Disruption in the Life of the Church: Then

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Missio Alliance

A Pentecost Sunday to Ponder: The Church Finds its Breath to Lament, Grieve, Repent

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Mandy Smith

We are Not Overcome! Calling the Church to Her True Vocation

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David Fitch

Shall We Go Be Among The Oppressed? James Cone’s, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree” (Part 2)

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David Fitch

Shall We Go Be Among The Oppressed? Reflections on James Cone’s, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree” (Part 1)

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Rich Villodas

Parkland and the Continued Problem with Thoughts and Prayers

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Andrew Arndt

The Church in a Violent World

Geoff Holsclaw

The False “Moral Authority” of Robert Jeffress

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Rich Villodas

A Congregational Prayer for Churches After Charlottesville

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

The Birth of a Nation: From Darkness to Light

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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

“The Free State of Jones” And The Cost of Freedom

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Mandy Smith

How Lament Quells the Terrorist in Each of Us

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Kyle Johnson

Is Non-Violence a Historic Christian Value?

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Derek Vreeland

Leave it to the Wrath of God: An Eschatological Response to Terrorism

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Kyle Johnson

Is the Idea of America At Odds With the Idea of the Kingdom?

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Rich Villodas

Advent, Herod, and Liberty University

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Seth Richardson

How Jerry Falwell Jr. Helps Me Repent

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Karina Kreminski

Re-enchantment, the Incarnation and Sacred Spaces in the Neighborhood

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Eric Paul

Blessed are the Peacemakers – In Paris and Your Neighborhood

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Tim Meier

A Call to #PrayforParis as Disciples

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Marlena Graves

A Feral Mind

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Fred Liggin

Jesus Is My King Not My Concierge

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Matt Tebbe

Am I Really Non-Violent?

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Charles Self

A Baptism of Tears

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Fred Liggin

The Courts of Public Opinion and the School of Denial

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Brian Zahnd

How Does the Church Differ From America?

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Karina Kreminski

Fifty Shades of Confusing: Searching For a #TrulyHuman Perspective

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Charles Self

#ChurchTrending: The Maccabees, A Christmas Truce, and Bonhoeffer on Peacemaking

Mark Moore

#ChurchTrending: The Unholy Advent Wreath

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David Fitch

Learning how to be funny for the Kingdom: What a Christian pacifist can learn from Muhammad Ali About Witness

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Tylor Standley

Who Would Jesus Execute?

Seth Richardson

The Peace of Christ & Linguistic Violence

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Missio Alliance

Greg Boyd on the Lion & the Lamb

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Missio Alliance

Jonathan Martin’s “Peaceable Kingdom” Series

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Brian Zahnd

When America Went to Hell

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Lee Wyatt

The Marks of the Church & Violence

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Brian Dolleman

Escalation

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Branson Parler

Conquest, Exile, & Cross: Replacing Projection With Reality

KrisAnne Swartley

The Violence Within

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Derek Vreeland

Questioning the Just War Assumption

T.G. Blankenship

Just War Theory: A Primer

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Andy Campbell

Did Jesus Command His Followers to Pack Heat?

Missio Alliance

Christianity & Violence: A Call for Submissions

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Missio Alliance

The Sunday Morning Post, 2.9.14