This Tennessee Law declaring the Bible to be the “Official Book” of Tennessee is something like what Jesus directly spoke out against: “Blowing your trumpet before men”. In that case, he was referring to prayer, but the idea is that one’s “faitfulness” is not something to present as “announcement”. It’s pure “showoff” and means NOTHING. Like you suggest, to DO Continue Reading
Post by Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland).
Karen Armstong wrote this: to which Harris has posted a rather rude, incomplete, shallow retort in the style of his usual blanket assertions about the inanities of religion and the superiority of his New Atheism. I am hopeful that Armstrong’s winsome depiction of Islam will shame and enlighten them, as it has me. They will discover that Hassan al-Banna Continue Reading
Gleaned from the Tweet stream earlier, from David Dark’s link: Fox News and the entire conservative media-industrial complex have no real interest in Republican governance. They thrive on conflict and on opposition via The GOP’s Plan To Do Nothing « The Dish. Absolutely. Clearest indication I’ve yet seen that the end REALLY IS the power. Fuck the governing. Thtat’s just Continue Reading
I’m doing a lot more book reading lately, and I post things that occur to me as I read. Amazon could REALLY do with some big-time enhancements and apps to help communities of book readers form and converse. One can go and find comments under nearly all of their books, but there is nothing to enable deeper connection with people Continue Reading
I blog because I fancy myself a writer. I blog in an age of Social Media /Twitter because I often desire more than RTs. I want conversation. I’ve worked lately to improve my comment system and options for readers. I am blogging on a regular basis again. But the comments just aren’t coming. What has happened? Where are people who Continue Reading
even faith-based organizing becomes problematic without the hard theological work of distinguishing liberative faith from status quo faith. – Joerg Rieger in response to Romand Coles ‘ article: Ecotones and the Arts of Radical Ecclesia and Radical Democracy | Syndicate. For me, and it seems also for Joerg Rieger, the Occupy Movement provided the church with a model of organizing activism Continue Reading
Indeed postcolonial independence movements—which so often had the redistribution of unjustly concentrated resources, whether of land or minerals, as their core missions— were consistently undermined through political assassinations, foreign interference, and, more recently, the chains of debt-driven structural adjustment programs Klein, Naomi (2014-09-16). This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (p. 454). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. Naomi put her Continue Reading
Keeping books locked down as they do is keeping Amazon from realizing some really great apps for “Socializing” the discussion of books online. I have been Tweeting and Facebook posting quotes from the books Ive been reading on my Kindle Fire for the past couple years. But I am constantly frustrated by the absence of that SHARE feature on Continue Reading
Karen Armstrong is one smart, articulate sociological historian. We need to listen to her. We now take the secular state so much for granted that it is hard for us to appreciate its novelty, since before the modern period, there were no “secular†institutions and no “secular†states in our sense of the word. Their creation required the development of Continue Reading
At Union Theological Seminary, a remarkably diverse group of more than 200 religious and spiritual leaders will gather for the Religions for the Earth conference. Representing Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, the Pacific nations and the Arctic, these leaders will bring a much-needed moral perspective to the climate crisis. They represent billions of people of faith. via Religions for Continue Reading
As I read Naomi Klein’s ThisChangesEverything, I am also winding down the final chapters of Tavis Smiley’s book Death of a King, about MLK’s final years, where he was offending a good portion of his following becuase they saw him as “Venturing out” from Race to issues (like war and economics) that many were saying were “beyond his province”; “Stick Continue Reading
via RealClimate: Start here. Here’s a list suggested by a reader of realclimate): http://climatedenial.org http://climateprogress.org http://www.climatesciencewatch.org http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com http://deconsumption.typepad.com http://www.globalissues.org http://globalisation-and-the-environment.blogspot.com http://fergusbrown.wordpress.com http://initforthegold.blogspot.com http://www.realclimate.org http://reasic.com – See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/#sthash.vAquKrY1.dpuf
Was reading the final chapters of The Facebook Effect, and when it mentions “Facebook Connect”, ” a way to project information about the actions you take on other sites back to your Facebook friends as if they were actions inside Facebook”. This is a key issue for Web social integration. It is the Facebook strength, writ large and Web wide. Continue Reading
Scroll down to “Connect with one of these to comment,” and try to login with your choice of three (Facebook, Google, or Disqus) This is not the “LIke” button (further up). If you have commented here, and it is not showing below under the comment type, please tell me at dale dot lature AT gmail DOT com Remember: This is NOT the “Like” button Continue Reading