Given all we’ve been through, any firm this stupid HAS TO BE ALLOWED to fail, OR purged of their STUPID, CARELESS, unable to learn leadership and taken over. On a conference call with analysts, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon announced that his firm had lost $2 billion investing in the same species of derivative that exacerbated the 2008 financial crisis. via Continue Reading
In reading Jim Rice’s study on Digital Ecclesiology, this line got me thinking about something I have often “preached” in thepast couple of years. when people come to church they have found us on an Internet search looking for a progressive church via New Media Project at Union Theological Seminary | Models of the Church and Social Media. The question Continue Reading
Very rarrely do I ever see such a question. Most church based social media rationale seems to be along the lines of “should the church use social media” and the answer is “yeah, if we want to be relevant and speak the language of your culture”. This question asks the deeper , morer theological rationale question. do our theological understandings and commitments Continue Reading
Todd Gitlin has written an amazingly articulate expression of the history, aims, and “feel” of the Occupy movement. The following does an amazing job of explaining (at least for me) the appeal, the effects, and the values of Occupy, and is, by virtue of that, an expression that ventures close into theological territory, for it hits around the universals of Continue Reading
Chris Hedges spoke to Episcopal Bishop George Packard, who says in a restaraunt overlooking Zucotti Park: “The spirit is calling us now into the streets, calling us to reject the old institutional orders. ” This is the kind of Pentecost that I see coming. And it reminds me of the warning in Revelation: “Because you are lukewarm, I am about to spit Continue Reading
Reading this morning in Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street . Kindle apps allow me to copy selections to quote. I now wish it had a way to send directly to my “Add New OccupyTheology post” , customized Press This bookmarklet.” [Occupy] seized attention, won friends, enlivened the demoralized, stirred up theater, Continue Reading
Found this site via a @hrheingold tweet about taking questions re: his latest bookk , NetSmart #DigPed Discussion Group: NetSmart | Digital Pedagogy | HYBRID PEDAGOGY. In the midst of reading NetSmart myself. HR is my original guru for Online Community
Prety darn good job, Michael! http://soundcloud.com/occupy-this-album/01-michael-moore-the-times
One of the things I really like about Occupy (and I didn’t like this, at first) is that in its diversity, it spans a whole host of issues, and explores and imagines and , yes, PLANS, to bring many issues to the public, and get those needed conversations going and providing the public space in which to have them (whether that space Continue Reading
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