Category Archives: OWS
@MicahBales at Virginia Theological Seminary – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHvCJCDYGuE
VTS #OccupyChurch Comes to Virginia Seminary
“The Occupy movement isn’t something that I had on my radar screen at all… I did not think of myself as an organizer or activist. But as I learned more about [it], I became increasingly convinced that God wanted me to be involved” – @MicahBales of OccupyDC and #occupyChurch http://www.vts.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=204&nid=780239
Occupy movement prepares for May 1; Episcopalians continue support
With the dismantling of encampments at New York’s Zuccotti Park and elsewhere and the onset of winter, the Occupy movement dropped out of front-page headlines. But the movement against greed and economic inequality has continued unabated, supported by members of the faith community. http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2012/04/20/episcopalians-continue-support-as-occupy-movement-prepares-for-may-1/
Obama and the “charge” of “endorsing Occupy”; death to each by association
Here’s another inane stab, from the same article I RT’d earlier, at trying to “tar” Obama with “endorsing” Occupy. The Obama administration has endorsed the Occupy movement, and the president has even been quoted this week in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, calling the OWS movement O “just one vivid expression of a broader anxiety.” http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981299489 Not exactly Continue Reading
Poll Shows OWS Movement “becoming more radical” ; well DUH
Re: my RT of a link from @occupyUSA: http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981299489 After I retweeted it, I read deeper to find this: No, President Obama has NOT “endorsed” the Occupy movement. This is a sure sign of an anti-Occupy, anti-Obama smear piece. Obama has, in fact, aprropriated SOME of the language of SOME of the major themes of Occupy, but he has never Continue Reading
Live to Try » Leaving Wall Street
Testimony of a former Wall Street person (not overtly theological, but a story that many Christians need to allow to be absorbed into their theological outlook on how the world worms its way into our formation The culture of Wall Street is pervasive and contagious. While there are WallStreet employees who are able to ignore it, or block it out, Continue Reading
Faith In Action Art Exhibit – Panel Discussion on #occupyChurch #occupyFaith #FaithInAction
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wwNwYmQX5s Part 2: http://youtu.be/c9IXSUpW9ds Part 3: http://youtu.be/AM1zpYPmLDc
The Occupy Toolkit via The Lambs War Blog @michabales #OccupyDC #OccupyChurch
From “The Lamb’s War” blog of Micah Bales: One unique way that Occupy Church is participating in the American Spring is through the development of a theological basis for this movement. When I read this line in Micah’s post from yesterday, my heart sung. Yes! A theological basis for this movement. It is the hope I intend to help further and enable Continue Reading
@Vanderbilt Historian: #OWS movement right on time in new Gilded Age
All of the interview with Vanderbilt history prof Gary Gerstle from which a clip was used in a VUCast (Vandy’s YOuTube News Channel) is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ph79lbXaF5I#! He says “second gilded age” began under Reagan. But only now has there been much of an outcry that could be identified, until OWS.
The elusive “message” is an easy slam when you don’t listen
I just read the follwing line in an article about Occupy: “A lot of people who came into the camp with the preconceived notion that ‘these people don’t have a message’ came by our booth and were surprised by the level of discourse there.†http://www.thenation.com/article/166749/revolution-radio As I continued to hear the critiques of Occupy Wall Street that “they don’t have a clear Continue Reading
How #OWS should be received by the church #OccupyChurch
This, from a blog post I started reading yesterday, and took up again this morning, is very close to where I come down as a “theological reading” of the Occupy movement, and what makes it a “teaching moment” for the church. #OWS reminds the church of something that it has forgotten, namely, that faithful and active shouldering of covenantal responsibility in relationship Continue Reading
The “#OWS has no message” meme #occupyNashville #OWS #occupyFaith
This morning I ran across this post , “Why I Support #OWS as a Reformed Theologian” , and early on in the post I was reminded of the “meme” to which occupy opposers have taken hold, that of the “unclear message”. I actgually heard two Tennessee legislators actually say they had never heard an articulation of who the 99% and the 1% Continue Reading
Rick Santorum Questioned Obama’s Faith In 2008, Said There’s No Such Thing As A Liberal Christian
That such is the attitude of far too many conservative evangelicals is not a surprise. In fact, most of the conservative evangelical friends I have would also be embarrassed by Santorum’s public display of spiritual arrogance. The surprise is that, as someone running for President, one would realize that things like this would not play well at all. Maybe he thinks his Continue Reading
#occupychurch by @monicaacoleman of @NewMediaAtUnion #OWS
Monica Coleman posted back in November on the New Media Project blog, asking the question that I had begun to asking when I saw the Occupy movement start up, If we used the hashtag #occupychurch with the same revolutionary fervor as the Occupy movements, what would we doing? Here’s my first Tweet: Whatever you did for one of the least Continue Reading