After three episodes of The Roosevelts on PBS, I find beginnings myself mourning what we’ve lost in our part of history. Due in no small part to the “Hollywood-ization” of politics wrought by electronic media, Theodore Roosevelt would be “unelectable” today. As Ken Burns told Jon Stewart in his Daily Show interview Monday night this week, “He’d have 10 Howard Continue Reading
Shane Claiborne: “Tears were met with teargas.” http://ow.ly/BvwA3 “Dr. King said: a ‘riot is the language of the unheard.’ What happens when folks do not feel like their voices are being heard?” Another#Ferguson happens. That first Claiborne line is a powerful way to put it. I posted this in my Occupy Theology section in my blog because this is an Continue Reading
“For some, this was an excuse to return to their cynicism; for others, it was an invitation to lose their illusions and begin to see the world from the viewpoint of political activists” – from the Amazon description
“Conversations can no longer be controlled. They can only be joined”-Randall Rothenberg in #TheFacebookEffect by @davidkirkpatric — Dale Lature (@dlature) September 8, 2014 I tweeted the above Randall Rothenberg (president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the trade association for interactive marketing in the U.S) quote from “The Facebook Effect” yesterday after I heard it in the audio Continue Reading
Post by Reconciling Ministries Network.
This is how Lowery responded on CNN’s “New Day”: “I would invite Joe Scarborough to come down to Ferguson and get out of 30 Rock where he’s sipping his Starbucks smugly…I have little patience for talking heads. This is too important. This is a community in the United States of America where things are on fire. This community is on Continue Reading
(After I posted this initially, I realized it should have been posted as an “Occupy Theology” post…so I posted a duplicate in that Custom Post Type) 4 days removed from returning from Hot Springs, NC, I sit on July 3rd on my front porch wary of the Patriotism-fest about to be unleashed, and most wary of the Constantinian moves taken Continue Reading
4 days removed from returning from Hot Springs, NC, I sit on July 3rd on my front porch wary of the Patriotism-fest about to be unleashed, and most wary of the Constantinian moves taken by so many of our even Progressive churches. We’ll sing Battle Hymn of the Republic and America the Beautiful, songs I tend to like, but in Continue Reading
Just got back from the Y where my choice of reading/viewing fare was a Netflix movie, Robert Reich’s “Inequality For All”. (Don’t know why they didn’t include that link to Netflix on their ad ) This alone was a program making the 7.99 a month monthly price well worth it. Heck, it’s worth it if you have friends, since you Continue Reading
And what has this to do with Church? It is CONNECTED in the same way that the Occupy Movement has created a space in which the Church should be and NEEDS to be present. The issue of Net Neutrality and protecting it from the hegemony of the monied interests. If we do not, the Church itself will find its communication Continue Reading
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
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