Day: December 16, 2011

‘Occupy church’ next? World Net Daily shows its Nationalist Theology NOT #occupytheology but #occupiedtheology

Thought I’d include this item,  from the Fundamentalist World Net Daily,  as an example of the Low rung of the church response I blogged about earlier. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=368841 I especially like this: Wallis reportedly is a spiritual adviser to Obama and has known the president for years. That just seals it doesn’t it?  Any association with Obama,  and God forbid,  a Continue Reading

Occupy Movement: Christians have mixed reactions

This quote from a UMC pastor re: Occupy in Christianity Today has me thinking about the scale of church responses to Occupy:  At bottom,  is outright rejection and demonization (ala Fox and The Tea Party),  2)  condescension expressed in comments like  ” irrelevant” and “naive” 3) total ignoring 4) Skepticism about it’s ultimate effectiveness 5)  Hopefulness about it but dampened Continue Reading

The Rev. Madison Shockley: Jesus and the 99 Percent – Truthdig

We in the Christian community are also asking how the movement’s message coheres with our theological precepts. Should the church be for or against OWS? Should the church offer spiritual support? Should the church lend physical and material support to movement members? http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/jesus_and_the_99_percent_20111202/?ln When the history of this second decade of the new millennium is written, we don’t want it Continue Reading

Hitchens on church and occupy- via @Truthout #occupytheology

That “evil atheist”, Christopher Hitchens,  expressing a healthier theology than do most of those  in the Christian Right: The Occupy movement is the force that will revitalize traditional Christianity in the United States or signal its moral, social and political irrelevance. The mainstream church, battered by declining numbers and a failure to defiantly condemn the crimes and cruelty of the corporate Continue Reading

awesome #CSLewis quote via @micahbales

@MicahBales: Prosperity knits us to the world. We think we’re finding our place in the world when actually the world is finding its place in us. #CSLewis http://twitter.com/#!/micahbales/statuses/147731395270287360

Thomas Merton Quote relevant to Hitchens/athiesm HT @RogerWolsey via @BeliefNet

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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.