The Politics of Forgetting
May 13, 2010 politics, reading, theology
Tim Wise has been all over the Web lately with his article, “What If the Tea Party Were Black?” I had my dose of Wise last week via a six-part series on YouTube that contains his 2007 lecture, “The Pathology of White Privilege: Racism, White Denial, and the Costs of Inequality.” The videos are roughly [...]
Tags: Belgium, Christianity, colonialism, Congo, Glenn Beck, history, Hochschild, Joseph Conrad, Leopold, Mother Jones, privilege, racism, slavery, Tea Party, William Sheppard
Anti-Statism, Relativism, Prosperity Gospel, etc.
Nov 20, 2009 Cedarville, links, music, philosophy, television
So I took a trip to Myanmar this week. I’ll blog about it later. In the meantime I have a bunch of tabs of stuff I’ve been meaning to share and I’ll have to just dump them w/o much comment because they’re slowing down Firefox. The Atlantic: “Did Christianity Cause the Crash?” by Hanna Rosin. [...]
Tags: Arcade Fire, Arrested Development, Christianity, homosexuality, Judd Apatow, postmodernism, Prosperity Gospel, Ray Lamontagne, recession, relativism, statism
Anarcho-Bokononism
Jul 3, 2009 politics
Ok, there’s no such thing as anarcho-Bokononism. But Bokononism, the fictional true religion created by Kurt Vonnegut in Cat’s Cradle, does have some interesting similarities with Christian anarchism. Perhaps the most obvious is the Bokononist repudiation of granfalloons, or false communities. A “textbook example” of a granfalloon (or false karass) is the association of Hoosiers, [...]
Tags: anarchism, Bokononism, Caesar, Cat's Cradle, Christianity, government, Vonnegut
The Patriot’s Bible
May 30, 2009 politics, theology
Greg Boyd apparently has an actual copy; if you’re not familiar with Boyd, his review makes even more sense in light of his article “The Bible, Government, and Christian Anarchy.” Though I actually wrote Rev. Boyd many months ago and he said he now prefers the term “Christarchy” to describe his view. But you don’t [...]
Tags: Americanism, anarchism, Bible, Christianity, Eugene Cho, Greg Boyd, patriotism
Books Read in 2008
Jan 1, 2009 philosophy, politics, reading, theology
I tried to read a book/week again, which seems very reasonable, but fell short once again. I’m about halfway through a dozen other books, which I’ll probably just finish & count for ’09. Under each category, they’re listed in the order I read them. Incidentally, the first book I read in 2008 was The Audacity [...]
Tags: 2008, anarchism, Bush, Camus, capitalism, Christianity, consumerism, existentialism, hitchhiking, liberalism, Obama, Vonnegut
Hello Sunshine
Feb 8, 2007 music, personal, politics, theology, writing
Relatively Clean Rivers – Hello Sunshine mp3 “Listen up and I’ll tell a story / about an artist growing old,” sings Daniel Johnston, presumably referring to himself. Tonight these lyrics remind me of Phil Pearlman instead. The two men aren’t even wholly dissimilar: both are outsider musicians, both are legendary figures in certain limited circles, [...]
Tags: beatnik, Christianity, Elephant 6, hippies, Islamism, Jeff Tweedy, mp3, terrorism, Wilco
Unbelief Should Be Outlawed
Oct 9, 2002 politics, theology
At the same time I write this entry, Noah is also blogging. We’re a cute couple. … In my Religion and Culture class today I learned that Communist China allows one to be a Christian, as long as they do not publicly practice Christianity. That is, don’t go to church or proselytize. So there’s a [...]
Tags: Calvin, capital punishment, China, Christianity, communism, Constantine, theocracy, theonomy, tolerance