MLK vs The Status Quo via @jarrodmckenna

Jarrod McKenna wrote today,  on this MLK day 2012,  about the big problem so many Americans have in co-opting MLK and making him a “cheerleader” for whatever cause they please.  I have heard this over and over from those who oppose the Occupy movement on the basis of “lawlessness” and seemingly the very idea of being critical of U.S. structures. Continue Reading

Principalities and Powers

I was just reading something that mentioned a phrase I often heard used:  “So focused on heaven that they are of no earthly good”,  referring to how some spiritualities withdraw from any responsibility to suffering around them. It is a close relative,  I think,  to the “gnostics”,  which claim to eschew physicality and maintain a strict separation between one’s physical Continue Reading