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American Enterprise Institute’s Michael Strain, a moderate, wrote that Yellen is now “in danger of becoming a partisan hack via Yellen Mentions Inequality; Right Scandalized — NYMag. Yeah, for analyzing what is established FACT. The Right yet again shows its UNHINGED-ness. Further: Rather than actually state that rising inequality is a problem in American life, she merely conceded that it Continue Reading
Here is a quote from the video that encapsulates #OccupyTheology as well as any phrase could: Church! Act like a church! (about 22:30 for the context) via Krista Tippett with Nathan Schneider – YouTube. On what he (Nathan) hopes for about how people in the world are living that agency; building those kinds of communities that we need; to resist Continue Reading
The big question in my mind is whether people of faith and goodwill will rise up and successfully tame capitalism-gone-wild, or whether it will prove untamable and drive off the cliff of collapse. via Five Good Answers with Author, Speaker, and Activist Brian D. McLaren : Matt Litton. This seems to be my two overarching concerns right now (and Brian Continue Reading
Is God Green? via Moyers on America . Is God Green? | PBS. Watch it via PBS Just a bit of the problem that happens with “Bible Interpretation”. The text renders radically different responses, based on the context. Some will “filter” and create their own “CANON” of Scripture and ignore the more obvious , “inconvenient” passages that would otherwise cry Continue Reading
Could it be that seeing through the false claims of the power of the one percent, exposed by the Occupy movement, not only makes us better communities but also better theologians? via Theology at the Service of Humanity | Syndicate. I rarely quote the final sentence of an article in my highlighting/linking to a piece, but this one obviously stuck Continue Reading
The “sparks” lead to two different ingnitions: The all too common right wing knee-jerk, auto-pilot echo of the political right wing’s dismissal and rage against the idea that climate change poses an existential danger to us. Then there is the igniting of the long and rich history of ecotheological depth in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and in “other” theological traditions (especially Continue Reading
Soon after the Occupy movement began, I bought the domain occupytheology.org. It was an immensely theological event for me, and continues to be, regardless of the “hibernation” it’s most “visible” elements may be experiencing. I write “visible” in quotes, because it’s visibility tends to be defined by the media. If it’s not being covered as a REAL MOVEMENT, but as Continue Reading
Go to a lot of places outside of our country and our politics, and you often find yourself where climate change is more than a “debate” as it is often described here, and see the first hand effects (one can also find those places in our country as well, and these are just some of the many “Sacrafice Zones” that Continue Reading
http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/opinion/view/274 This article is titled “It’s a cold, hard fact: our world is becoming a better place” And it charts how much of the world’s population is under “Full Democracies”, as if the category itself is indicative of any country’s particular implementation of those claims. I question this because I’m an American, where “Full Democracy” has gradually become less and Continue Reading
we must learn to separate the individual officers, the lower-case police as humans, from the capital P- Police, the system and the problem. For Christians, we stand with people but we stand against systems of oppression. “Fuck the Police†can be possible in a Christian context, because it is the real cry of people, because it is a cry of Continue Reading
Scientists Say Global Warming Has Been “Hugely Underestimated” via As Casualties Mount, Scientists Say Global Warming Has Been “Hugely Underestimated”. A major study recently published in New Scientist found that “scientists may have hugely underestimated the extent of global warming because temperature readings from southern hemisphere seas were inaccurate,” and said that ACD is “worse than we thought” because it Continue Reading
http://www.popularresistance.org/occupy-continues-in-parliament-square-for-real-democracy/ Doesn’t seem to be “dead”…. As long as corporate corruption and undemocratic shenanigans continue, the people will not continue to acquiesce. Now if only we can light a fire under our populace here in the states. If Londoners can do this, why can’t we? (Answer, we can and do, but it needs to get persistent and un-“missable”…..the #PeoplesClimate and Continue Reading
Naomi Klein, the award-winning journalist and author of global best-sellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo discusses her most provocative book yet, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate. – from the YouTube description We’ve continued on the road of more and more emissions for 25 years since we were told by scientists that this was a perilous road. There 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