The only things that have shown up in my comments are the social media pointers I have put out asking my theological friends to comment. It’s not that this is THE most important issue on the world. It’s not. Their are wars, killings, severe oppression, economic hegemony of the extremely wealthy, etc. But this IS a vastly influential and consequential Continue Reading
“Where are or where should we theologians be?” http://theologysalon.org/ Read about this inOccupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude by Joerg Rieger and Kwok Pulan
Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude Religion in the Modern World http://www.amazon.com/Occupy-Religion-Theology-Multitude-Modern-ebook/dp/B009L92XF6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid= Just downloaded the Sample, and probably after that , the Kindle of the book. Hope I can contact this guy and do a Hangout, as well as with @nathanairplane (Nathan Schneider) of ” Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse”
Since I’m reading Nathan Schneider’s Thank You Anarchy, I found a couple articles on the close relationship between Occupy and Religion (how the strengths of each are modeled by the other, to put it one way) NO REVOLUTION WITHOUT RELIGION and: How Occupy Wall Street got religion
#OWS and Anarchism: http://youtu.be/4Cq9R4Lqr1o w/ @Mark__Bray (Translating Anarchy) & Nathan Schneider @nathanairplane (Thank You, Anarchy)
This is such a spot-on observation/consideration by Krugman: What about being able to find work? Suppose you have an expensively acquired degree, and the only jobs out there are part-time gigs at minimum wage. You might not take those jobs; in that case, is it really true that you can’t find work? Alternatively, you might indeed take such a job; Continue Reading
Also interesting from the 2004 Obama, distinguishing between “Separation of Church and State” and avoiding/eschewing the “abandoning of the role of faith in politics” as some tend to do when explaining their working out of that “separation”. in my own public policy, I’m very suspicious of religious certainty expressing itself in politics. Now, that’s different form a belief that values Continue Reading
don’t say, as Hayes does, that he believes achieving racial progress is just a matter of having the right conversations. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/ponder-what-isnt-mocked-as-racially-unenlightened-in-america/274939/ The things Conor Friersdorf claims Rand Paul believes that supposedly shoot down Chris Hayes saying the above are , again, things SAID. Paul SAYS stuff. But the behavior and advocacy are simply not there. The attempts to roll back Continue Reading
Watch live streaming video from freespeechtv at livestream.com When I saw this Livestream speech at the 2013 NCMR (National Conference for Media Reform) via Jay Rosen’s twitter link to the transcript, I began thinking about how Church “Social Media” seems oblivious to the social issues; to the opportunities to be advocates for “the people” and what’s really best for the Continue Reading
I’m sorry but the article you are looking for has been removed. You can read it at the author’s personal blog. http://www.redletterchristians.org/should-we-give-up-god-for-lent/ OK, points for re-linking over to Micah’s blog for that post. But I have so many points at which I am feeling embarassed for how RLC handled this. 1. NEVER do that. Let comments expound the conversation. I Continue Reading
Read this post from my friend Jeremy John last night, and he raises up many of the dimensions that emerged from the post by @MicahBales responding to what he sees as a danger/distortion that lies in “over-intellectualizing” or “internalizing” the philosophical challenges so often articulately formed by @PeterRollins. I’ve read a couple of Peter’s books, and have had the opprtunity Continue Reading
I concur deeply. In other words, a hearty amen on just about every point. I’m disappointed in RLC, as I have been over the past year in the “social justice” orgs and their strange, what I can only identify as “reticence” to really be a support and encourager and enabler and participants with the Occupy movement. To say “they Continue Reading
I was just in a mini-stream on Twitter with @james_ka_smith , where I tried to re-open the topic re: the church and the Occupy movement. I had tweeted a while back to JKA on this, but it didn’t seem to spark much interest on his part. He and I had done a bit of back and forth back in 2005-06 Continue Reading
The CNN blog post destined to draw tons of comments: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/21/to-some-obama-is-the-wrong-kind-of-christian/ I just did a Google Search on that title and the number two result is frlom godlikeproductions where the author simply reacts aloud: “Is CNN Serious?” obviously addressing the choir of folks who consider Obama to be , like the author his/herself says, an “AntiChrist”. The Christian Right is all over this, Continue Reading