Effective movements that intend to make a difference tend to peter out unless the activists sense a spiritual component and allow their faith to sustain them during the rough road ahead. Roger puts his finger on something I’ve long believed (ever since coming into contact with the life and practices of the people of The Church of the Saviour in Continue Reading
From @RogerWolsey via his post on patheos.com (link below) God is in the those who are reclaiming their gifts of prophecy and are speaking truth to power. God is in that slip of paper that a protester slipped to Obama. God is in that guy with the funny hat who handed that fox reporter his a$$ with a barrage of Continue Reading
A recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute and Religion News Service found that less than a third of Americans say the Occupy movement represents their values, but the police evictions seem to have boosted religious support for the movement. This comes with actually learning something about the movement, instead of letting the inane memes circulating through various media Continue Reading
As I have begun doing posts of type “occupytheologyâ€, I see that the RSS feed does not include them. I was hoping for an option somewhere, but it seems WP still hasn’t done much to make the Custom Post Types “administer-able†without Plugins. I found a Calendar widget for Custom Post Types, but the links to the Date Archive don’t Continue Reading
“Can’t help but wonder if the cost of pwr & priv’lg is blindn’s &insenstvty.” @mennoworld #occupytheology. http://t.co/p8QjXEHu
A visit to #occupyDC and “Violence & Non-Violence” from Craig Watts via @redletterChristians. http://t.co/QMODNuMj
I’ve seen quite a bit of this: in some circles there are voices who claim that at its core Occupy is not nonviolent and that the fringe is not a fringe at all but the real face of the movement. I found this to be a rather ironic twist: The only thing resembling violence that we saw was the annoying disruption caused Continue Reading
To howl”Communism”at every idea/effort 2 deal w/gross ineq’ty is ridic’ls & counter-prod #occupytheology. http://t.co/ts5pmNcl
“Whoever threw the spears and the bottles at the LAPD, NOT OUR PEOPLE” @OccupyFreedomLA #occupytheology. http://t.co/b7I1L4z1
at about 16:50 in this video, the above quote was like music to my ears. I thought, “now that’s a keeperâ€! Good Morning LA! !!!, Recorded on my Android phone. OccupyFreedomLA on USTREAM. Citizen Journalist
Anybody know of a desktop blog editor that allows me 2 post “Custom Post Type” (I have a “Occupytheology” post type at occupytheology.org?
@occupyfreedomLA what is your name? JUst saw your video from a few minutes ago. Loved your closing statements for the morning.
“The Occupy movment is unstoppable, another world is possible” (16:55) @occupyfreedomLA #occupyTheology. http://t.co/b7I1L4z1
Grateful for those using #occupychurch to actualy engage serious theological reflection and dialogue with #OWS. Seeking to highlight those
Annoys me how so many are using #occupyChurch as a gimmick to piggyback on Occupy movement by dissing it & say “come to church instead”