I started this book this past week, and this passage has much to do with my previous post, about how easily and uncritically the Religious Right accepts and even “justifies” that Bush is “God’s man”, based on this kind of thing: when asked about his life as a man of prayer and the decision to go to war, nothing will Continue Reading
I just picked up a bargain book from Barnes and Noble (Daniel Ellsberg’s Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers) for 5 bucks, and then I finally got my copy from the library I had put on hold (Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won The Heart Of America)
A Generous Orthodoxy (McLaren), another library checkout: Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Zinn and Arnove) and the aforementioned The Peaceable Kingdom (Hauerwas) (which I couldn’t fit on my chair to photograph it last time) McLaren I had set aside just before Thanksgiving when I picked up the Bonhoeffer books, and the Crossan book, and all the Continue Reading
top left: Crossan, In Search of Paul: How Jesus’s Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire With God’s Kingdom top center: Zinn, A People’s History of the United States(Wow, what unbelievable stuff about the lengths to which people will go for the glory of empire and wealth since 1492…and I’m only on page 35 of 700! A Library check-out) top right: A Testament Continue Reading
I just heard on a Trinity Broadcast (I am watching it via a link from Sojourners.com The new book is titled: How the Right Gets it Wrong, and the Left Doesn’t Get It. I will certainly have that one on my watch list. Catchy and on-target title.
Just ordered from Amazon: 1 “The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics” Stanley Hauerwas; Paperback; $13.00 1 “The Politics of Jesus” John Howard Yoder; Paperback; $13.60
In Search of Paul: How Jesus’s Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire with God’s Kingdom. When I saw it had an endorsemnt from James Carroll (author of Crusade and Constantine’s Sword , which said : “An adventure in history, theology, and the politics of empire. Christianity needs this book, but so does America.” Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Non-Violence. Continue Reading
This is a truly infuriating book. The level (depths) to which the Republican party in Florida will stoop (and apparently didn’t fear trying it again) is disturbing to say the least. I wonder how this story was kept out of the press. It makes me either doubt the accuracy of it, or fear that some monstrous pressure has been brought Continue Reading
A while back I purchased Imperial Hubris, since it began with a rather extensive analysis of how Islamic extremists have attacked America not becuase they “hate our way of life”, but becuase of what we have done, and becuase of the way that the US has “offended” them in various ways. The writer, an anonymouis Intelligence official, takes the US Continue Reading
I’ll be picking that up over the Public Library later today. After the second reccommendation I’ve been given by a couple of friends (Dave Turner in Cincinnati, with whom I have had many political discussions over the years, ands a lot lately as we comisserate about the “Bushies”….and Eric, who’s been commenting here, and I subscribe to his blog WorkingForChange-The Continue Reading
I’m carrying about 5 books these days……There’s James Carroll’s Crusade, Brian McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy, Joseph Wilson’s The Politics of Truth (which I jumped back into when I heard him interviewed on the Uncovered: The Truth About the War in Iraq (which is available at Border’s – 9.99 — or at Best Buy —7.99) , and there’s Bob Graham’s Intelligence Continue Reading
Just watched an another great documentary DVD from Jeff Greenwald (who also did Outfoxed) This one was on the Iraqw War debacle of deception, and they had some great interviews (and more detailed ones in the DVD extras, including Joseph Wilson, who wrote the Politics of Truth, which I was just reading for a while before putting in the DVD, Continue Reading
I’m waiting for my email from Amazon to get my ebook download for this book, which is summarized in the quote below and in the longer excerpt from the book in the link to CommonDreams.org Crimes Against Nature George W. Bush will go down in history as America’s worst environmental president. In a ferocious three-year attack, the Bush administration has Continue Reading
Thanks, Eric, for the major endorsement. It got me curious; I already had my interest peaked by another friend with whom I talk sports and politics, who saw the Dateline last night where Hersh was interviewed. I couldn’t access the video at MSNBC (the link was wrong) I picked it up and sat reading it for about half an hour Continue Reading
Before getting home and seeing the 9/11 analysis on NOW, I picked up Senator Graham’s book, reporting on what he found while chairing the Senate Intellignece Committee. I’ve read the first chapter and skimmed through several chapters, and now I’m reading it on from the end of Chapter One. One reviewer on Amazon gave it a low rating because Graham Continue Reading