Complicity and Monasticism

A few weeks ago I wrote a post expanding on a comment I left on the blog Inhabitatio Dei regarding how Christian pacifism and simplicity struggle with arguing from a compromised moral position.

Since that post, Halden has written some more on the issue of complicity, see his posts here and here. I don't think Halden was reacting to my comment or posts as I don't think he reads here, but his reflections are welcome as they struggle with the issues I was concerned/commented/posted about.

In his most recent post, Halden floats the "monastic move" that I had suggested in my earlier post.

All and all, it's an interesting conversation. How can Christians be in the world but still witness to a life not of the world?