Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith. via Thomas Merton Quote – Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no lo.
You know #OccupyWallStreet is preoccupying the conservatives when Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council feels he has make the convoluted argument that “Jesus was a free marketer, not an Occupier.†http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/occupy-the-bible-why-jesus-is-not-a-free-marketer/2011/12/06/gIQAGDnMaO_blog.html?tid=sm_btn_twitter
Here I try to edit out the noise of chaos in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement and watch for the light of God’s truth during times of strife, change, and confrontations. I filter this through a Methodist – conservative upbringing, in context of values learned more through personal experience than through any church dogma. http://umc-unofficiallaymanopenforum.ning.com/forum/topics/occupy-wall-street-ows-what-s-it-about
From Occupy Seattle: “The Occupy Movement is finally identifying that there’s a problem with the system and poor people are a symbol of the problem.” http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5259669&ct=11551765 The Rev. John Helmiere’s face shows wounds after he says a Seattle police officer beat him while he was trying to keep peace Continue Reading
See this section ( 11:55 – 12:50 ) of the video to see why I put “Citizen Journalist” in quotes. I like the phrase, but Tim’s point is a good one. “Journalists ARE citizens”. But as he later says re: Citizen Journalists: “It means you’re independent”. So we are talking “Independent” and “Citizen” as adjective, setting them apart from corporate Continue Reading
What I did NOT really like was the way they mangled what Tim actually says about “Citizen Journalism”. It’s simple: The term is a bit redundant, because “Journalists ARE citizens”. That would have been easy for the Mashable article/video to point out. How the Occupy Movement Is Creating News Innovation.
“We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.†– MLK via Interfaith Worker Justice – Home.
All of a sudden, we are awake. We’ve been given eyes to see God’s economy as the alternative we need. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/emergentvillage/2011/12/advents-economic-good-news/ Reading this post from Jonathan also reminds me of Matthew’s recounting of the vision of Isaiah : “The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light” (Mt 4:16, Is.9:2)
Live Q&A with citizen journalist Tim Pool. about to go live. Now
And PJ O’Rourke behaves like an ass (again). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcjeUFodYfQ Alan Grayson is awesome here.
From The Church and PostModern Culture. Excellent. Badiou calls these eruptions ‘events’, an event (in this case a political event) is the revealing or acknowledging of something within the situation that had not been previously represented by the state, and not only not represented by also repressed by the state. In this way, an event disrupts the smooth functioning of Continue Reading
This retired Episcopal bishop, George Packard, has been blogging about his advocacy for the Occupy Movement. He quotes from the “Tidal” , an Occupy journal: We wouldn’t be here if Wall Street fed off itself; we are here because it is feeding off everyone. http://bishopsnotebook.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-occupy-is-read-tidal.html Another choice bit from Tidal: If the phantoms of Wall Street are confused by our presence Continue Reading
“Massive and effective street protest” was a global oxymoron until — suddenly, shockingly — starting exactly a year ago, it became the defining trope of our times. And the protester once again became a maker of history. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101745_2102132,00.html One might ask how this is “theological”. Well, my theology includes those “theologies” which do not claim to be “theologies”. James K.A. Smith Continue Reading
This isn’t overtly “theological:, but as I wrote earlier today, there are images that invite us to identify and articulate a theological response; one which is encouraging and hopefully even enabling of this movement. http://www.occupytheory.org/Home.html
Can we truly collaborate with religious “Nones†in the co-creation of new kinds of religious/faith communities? Or will our commitments to institutional structures or ecclesiological/denominational traditions keep us from experimenting together?http://knightopia.com/blog/2011/12/13/pushback-on-participatory-church/ I have thought about this, and if there is a possibility of saying YES, I see opportunity in the Occupy movement. This is a movement where it seems to Continue Reading
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