Day: October 18, 2014

.@Joerg_Rieger on Organizing Alternative Power & #OccupyTheology

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even faith-based organizing becomes problematic without the hard theological work of distinguishing liberative faith from status quo faith. – Joerg Rieger in response to Romand Coles ‘ article:  Ecotones and the Arts of Radical Ecclesia and Radical Democracy | Syndicate.   For me,  and it seems also for Joerg Rieger,  the Occupy Movement provided the church with a model of organizing activism Continue Reading

.@ThisChanges Everything: postcolonial independence movements “nipped in the bud”

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Indeed postcolonial independence movements—which so often had the redistribution of unjustly concentrated resources, whether of land or minerals, as their core missions— were consistently undermined through political assassinations, foreign interference, and, more recently, the chains of debt-driven structural adjustment programs Klein, Naomi (2014-09-16). This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (p. 454). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. Naomi put her Continue Reading

Amazon missing key book possibilities

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Keeping books locked down as they do is keeping Amazon from realizing some really great apps for “Socializing” the discussion of books online.   I have been Tweeting and Facebook posting quotes from the books Ive been reading on my Kindle Fire for the past couple years.  But I am constantly frustrated by the absence of that SHARE feature on Continue Reading