Yes, I do believe we are, at least a new kind of participation which will be up to us as to how well we understand it and utilize it. And, it is the Occupy movement that has focused my thinking on the kind of participation with which we are dealing. The Occupy movement has been an aggregating force, meaning that Continue Reading
Kindle Fire: 1. Download the free WIRED app from the Amazon Appstore for Android. 2. Install the WIRED app to your device. via Wired-Digital Access. In a week, I’ll be doing this.
Will Willimon on Ayn Rand. Excellent. Rand’s “Fountainhead†and “Atlas Shrugged†repudiate family and community. Their major characters’ families and spouses are leeches whose communities are filled with sponges attempting to live off the powerful, brilliant few. And what about this, that Rand abhors the very concept of God. Whaaaa? GOP? Christian prsperity gospel fundies? Athiest? OH, I see why Continue Reading
Roger Ebert with a really good, articulate reflection on his feelings re: Occupy Republicans as well as Democrats should be fed up with the rot in our financial system. It should be apparent to them that the Republican Party is the legislative wing of Wall Street theft. Populists are called socialists, but then “socialism” is always the term aimed at Continue Reading
This report , as I watched it play out, seems a little muddled. I went to add this comment in their comment area, but it had too many characters, so I am bringing it over to the blog. this report got me to retweet it, just because it was Fox news being caught red-handed in distortion AGAIN. But the entire Continue Reading
After reading Derek’s post, I got interested in some Hauerwas elaborations. A Google search on Hauerwas, relevance, Caesar yielded a paper by Samuel Martin Bailey Wells at Durham U.: “How the Church performs Jesus’ story : improvising on the theological ethics of Stanley Hauerwas”. Here’s a juicy (and “fruity” – and fruit as in robust, healthy truth, rather than “carzy Continue Reading
Love this blog post. It draws upon two of the most instrumental theologians in the introduction of many Chriatians into the way of “anarchy”; a term that many people use to express their fear of stepping outside of the box of “the way things are” as defined by the culture, and by nations. We have, as Stanley Hauerwas and John Continue Reading
The Occupy Movement has begun “Occupying” homes under foreclosure. http://wearetheother99.com/
From the United Methodist Reporter: The Rev. Paige Eaves, pastor of Crescenta Valley UMC in Montrose, Calif., acknowledged she hesitated about getting involved in Occupy Los Angeles, “trying to figure out what the message of the movement was and if I could align myself with it as a clergyperson.†But soon she had concluded affirmatively. “It is obvious to me Continue Reading
The Rev. Sandy Gess: I find much in common from our faith tradition with the Occupy Movement. And, as an active participant and organizer with the Interfaith Tent @ Oakland, I draw inspiration from the Methodist tradition and our founder, John Wesley: “The world is my parish.†Wesley faced similar challenges as he responded to the crying needs of those Continue Reading
Thanks for this, Maggie Hillery of UMNS The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used nonviolent civil disobedience to change the world and society, but the church is too afraid of what others will think to take the same risks, says the Rev. Bob Edgar. http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5259669&ct=11545513
Deen Thompson posted this on his Facebook page this morning. This is a great article, directly challenging the church to “wake up” to realize that in OWS we have something of great significance breaking in upon us. And the church, in its American domesticated state, is oblivious to the THEOLOGICAL significance of it. Here’s a direct call to join with Continue Reading
Dave Winer highlights what ALL JOurnalists shoudl be doing with claims such as the fictions that the GOP is floating about through their drones. They’ve repeatedly been claiming that taxing small business owners prevents jobs from being created. They asked the Republicans for names of small business people they could interview that would confirm what they say. How many did they Continue Reading
I went to sleep just after midnight after fighting to stay awake to see what might happen in NY or in Boston at the Occupy activities. Seems Law and Order was shooting in a “Zucotti Park” set, and REAL Occupiers came and occupied the “fake occupy” camp. In Boston, they were told to leave by midnight. When I went to bed Continue Reading
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=ZGfUn7EZ69w#t=3m36s This link has a #t=03m36s querystring element at the end of the link to the video. This takes you right into that time into the video. Looking now to see if you can bound it on the other end.