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
@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
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.
You know #OccupyWallStreet is preoccupying the conservatives when Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council feels he has make the convoluted argument that “Jesus was a free marketer, not an Occupier.†http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/occupy-the-bible-why-jesus-is-not-a-free-marketer/2011/12/06/gIQAGDnMaO_blog.html?tid=sm_btn_twitter
From Occupy Seattle: “The Occupy Movement is finally identifying that there’s a problem with the system and poor people are a symbol of the problem.” http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5259669&ct=11551765 The Rev. John Helmiere’s face shows wounds after he says a Seattle police officer beat him while he was trying to keep peace Continue Reading
What I did NOT really like was the way they mangled what Tim actually says about “Citizen Journalism”. It’s simple: The term is a bit redundant, because “Journalists ARE citizens”. That would have been easy for the Mashable article/video to point out. How the Occupy Movement Is Creating News Innovation.
“We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.†– MLK via Interfaith Worker Justice – Home.
“Massive and effective street protest” was a global oxymoron until — suddenly, shockingly — starting exactly a year ago, it became the defining trope of our times. And the protester once again became a maker of history. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101745_2102132,00.html One might ask how this is “theological”. Well, my theology includes those “theologies” which do not claim to be “theologies”. James K.A. Smith Continue Reading
Yes, I do believe we are, at least a new kind of participation which will be up to us as to how well we understand it and utilize it. And, it is the Occupy movement that has focused my thinking on the kind of participation with which we are dealing. The Occupy movement has been an aggregating force, meaning that Continue Reading
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