Month: June 2012
Brian McLaren: Why I’m Joining the Occupation #OccupyChurch #OWS
Brian McLaren, another participant/speaker at Wild Goose later this week on Occupy: public spaces—from economic markets to political processes—have been colonized by powerful corporate elites (the 1 percent, or maybe the 10 percent), elites driven not by an ethical vision but by the relentless demand to maximize shareholder return. The 99 percent are realizing how destructive this colonization of public Continue Reading
News Spaces Within the Shell of the Old: Where Does #OWS Go From Here? by JWilson-Hartgrove #wildgoose12
I’ll be at The Wild Goose Festival later this week, and my friend Jeremy John and I have set aside two sessions there for some conversation about the Occupy movement and what it means for the church. I just saw this article from last fall at the beginnings of Occupy by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove re: Occupy and the church. for many Continue Reading
Imam speaks @ OccupyLSX #OccupyTheology via #FaithInThe99
Muslim Imam speaks of the prescence of Jesus, Mohammed, Moses, and Buddha with the Occupiers instead of up there in the offices of power. I found this video via “Faith in the 99%” on occupycafe.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QYxrFtROe5I#!
America’s Street Priest by Chris Hedges #OWS #OccupyChurch
Chris Hedges in TruthDig yesterday: Trinity had the demonstrators arrested. It chose to act like a real estate company, or the corporation it has become, rather than a church. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/americas_street_priest_20120611/ Fr. D.Berrigan: “It is up to us to take the initiative and hope the churches catch up” Berrigan believes, as did Martin Luther King, that “the evils of capitalism are Continue Reading
.@billmaher You are correct, so…. #OWS #BestDemocracyMoneyCanBuy #OccupyTheology
Great response from @OccupyWallSt tweet: .@billmaher You are correct, we will ‪#join‬ ‪#election2012‬ ‪#politics‬ plz advise on how 2 buy democracy ‪#superpac‬ ‪#asshat‬ https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt/status/212193565688856576
Calling on Trinity Wall Street to do the right thing re: “property issues” #OccupyChurch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgf4ozKHmA4&feature=player_embedded
The Pope is Apparently not a Republican | Richard Rohr #OccupyChurch
“The world of finance, while necessary, no longer represents an instrument that favours our well-being or the life of mankind, instead it has become an oppressive power, that almost demands our adoration, mammon, the false divinity that truly dominates the world.†Who said that? A socialist? A number of the Occupy Movement? An economic advisor to President Obama? None of Continue Reading
Trinity Institute Lectures – Wall St Dialogues: Occupy as a Leap of Faith 02.01.12 #OccupyChurch
I just had a friend forward me an email he got from an acquaintance invitinghim to join “Occupy Cafe”. So I did. And I ran across this link to one of the organization’s people talking at Trinity Wall St. about the moral and ethical implications of the Occupy movement. So here it is http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/webcasts/videos/conferences-classes/trinity-institute-lectures/wall-street-dialogues-occupy-as-a-leap-of-faith
Occupy Vocation: to make visible a diffr’t kind of world & a diff’rt kind of life together
The occupation movement has, at its heart, the unmasking and unveiling of true identity. Through the shared communal practices and liturgies of general assemblies, common language, shared music, disciplined endurance, and a willingness to suffer, Occupy Denver seeks to reclaim not only physical public space, but also, a deeper sense of communal identity. It seeks to make visible a different Continue Reading
From 99 to 100: Developing a Theology of & for #OWS (Pt 3 of 3) #OccupyChurch
I believe that the most loving thing we can do for the richest and most powerful is to tell them the truth: call them to the truth and challenge them to live truthfully. After all, one of the spiritual works of mercy is to admonish sinners. If this is so, we must love the 1% enough to speak the truth Continue Reading
Developing a Theology of & for #OWS mvmt (Pt 2 of 3) #OccupyChurch
What so many don’t understand is the point made in this article: This is a structural sin: despite best intentions, we have made it impossible to do good. This sin must be repented of and atoned for. In drawing attention to it, the Occupy Movement is a prophetic voice. http://www.rockandtheology.com/?p=4694 Structural sin is so imbedded, that the dictates of the Continue Reading
#OWS Versus Trinity Wall Street? via Rock and Theology #occupyChurch
from the article: Occupy is appealing to Trinity, a very wealthy church, to share its resources (prime Manhattan real estate, currently empty but presently leased on a short-term basis to a tenant) with the Occupy movement whose social goals are ostensibly the same as Trinity’s – a more just world for more people – and many of whose participants explicitly Continue Reading
Social Media and Movements; Social Media and Churches
The issue of the role of social media in movements dovetails nicely into a lot of my thinking about “online church”. I have long said that there are several avenues INTO Church from online spaces that can and do happen. But the “virtual space” becomes inhabited by the “physical space” as veterans from the physical spaces and events come back in via Continue Reading
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