The Reluctance to Discuss Economic Justice @GBCS

Here’s a post by Bill Meffords of  the @UMC ‘s Global Board of Church and Society @GBCS  about his noticing the LACK of discussion in church circles of “economic justice”,  but even here,  no mention of #OWS. http://main.umc-gbcs.org/blog/the-reluctance-to-discuss-economic-justice  

Toward a Theology of Occupy Wall Street via @OccupyCatholic

from a post by Kathryn Anderson:  I wondered how a theology of Occupy Wall Street could clarify our purpose and ideology, while inviting Catholics and other people of faith to engage with the movement with confidence and conviction. This post offers the beginnings of a theology for the Occupy Movement. It aims to identify the theology expressed by the movement Continue Reading

Labor and Work in Catholic Social Teaching and the Occupy Movement CST & OWS, PT 4 « The Theology Salon

Fr. Thomas Massaro SJ, Professor of Moral Theology at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry: As diffuse and disputed as its agenda may be, the Occupy movement has called unprecedented attention to the great imbalances in power and material outcome experienced by Americans today. One could quibble with the movement’s tactics and demands or even with its math (that Continue Reading

MIssing Something Speical via The Occupied Bishop

As I read this story by Bishop Packard,  these words stood out as if to signal a common rally point for church folks who long to see the church active and enagaged again the deep sadness of our Church missing something special in history   http://occupiedbishop.blogspot.com/2012/05/arrestedagain.html

Keeping Together Spirituality, Prophetic Critique, and Nurture via @glassdimlyfaith

Indeed: When we look for this, we find the church weak, either nur­tur­ing per­sonal spir­i­tu­al­ity with­out a prophetic cri­tique (con­ser­v­a­tive), or focused on prophetic action with­out nur­tur­ing our spir­its (lib­eral). The church is Solomon’s baby, split in two. http://justiceunbound.org/carousel/letter-to-a-seminarian-from-a-christian-occupier/ In the words of my mentor-Church community,  The Church of the Saviour (now a “tradition unto itself,  having spawned numerous , Continue Reading

The “success” of Occupy via #OccupyNation

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

@Vanderbilt Historian: #OWS movement right on time in new Gilded Age

All of the interview with Vanderbilt history prof Gary Gerstle from which a clip was used in a VUCast (Vandy’s YOuTube News Channel)  is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ph79lbXaF5I#! He says “second gilded age” began under Reagan.  But only now has there been much of an outcry that could be identified,  until OWS.

#OccupyUSA Blog Ehrenreich and “An Occupy Awareness”. #occupyFaith #OccupyChurch #OWS #OccupyNashville

This morning I saw this on the OccupyUSA blog. Barbara Ehrenreich at Alternet: “How I discovered the truth about poverty.” http://www.thenation.com/blog/166854/occupyusa-blog-friday-march-16-frequent-updates I thought as I began to read this that we are being dragged backwards in history by the right wing who want to do nothing but scoff at the concerns of people for the dramtic increase in the number Continue Reading

The elusive “message” is an easy slam when you don’t listen

I just read the follwing line in an article about Occupy: “A lot of people who came into the camp with the preconceived notion that ‘these people don’t have a message’ came by our booth and were surprised by the level of discourse there.” http://www.thenation.com/article/166749/revolution-radio As I continued to hear the critiques of Occupy Wall Street that “they don’t have a clear Continue Reading

How #OWS should be received by the church #OccupyChurch

This,  from a blog post I started reading yesterday,  and took up again this morning,  is very close to where I come down as a “theological reading”  of the Occupy movement,  and what makes it a “teaching moment” for the church. #OWS reminds the church of some­thing that it has for­got­ten, namely, that faith­ful and active shoul­der­ing of covenan­tal respon­si­bil­ity in rela­tion­ship Continue Reading