Creatively Advancing into Novelty
“Rhetorically, the political theology many progressive Christians espouse is Anabaptist. The rhetoric is anti-empire. Jesus is Lord, Caesar is not. But in practice, the political theology of many progressive Christians is Niebuhrian. That is, Christians must take and use the power of the state to address our social and international problems. The focus is upon…
“This is what Deleuze saw in Whitehead: that, in a creative world, “unification” is always “multiplication”—the creation of folds of difference. Any attempt to freeze this movement produces imperialism, that is, the “will to power” to conquer manifoldness. But the imperial desire for a “perfect” world “under control” only earns a dead world. It was…
JERUSALEM (from ‘Milton’) by: William Blake (1757-1827) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic Mills? Bring me my…
I got to see a band last night that I’ve been wanting to see for a long time–Psalters. They played on a small Mennonite farm in Central Pennsylvania. I’m So glad I attended.
I’ve have been following a series of blog posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) over at Jesus Manifesto (JM) that deal with the perceived unjust nature of Christianity. The blog series follows an interview (Part 1, Part 2) that JM did With Dakota scholar Waziyatawin. It is an intensely challenging two part interview in…
Full disclosure: I have not really been in the Christmas spirit this year. In all honesty, I’m almost ready to completely give up on the holiday, totally skip it. Christmas used to be exciting for me; the religious significance was especially important to me. But as of late, it simply does not have the same…
The early Christians were pacifists.¹ It was only in the second century did Christians become or remain soldiers. John Cadoux’s explanation for the Christian transition into militarism is of a slippery slope in moral ethics due to economic and political pressure. A major sociological shift had occurred after the second century to even allow Christian…