December 2007 - Posts
A VERY good question posed by JKA Smith:
Am I the only one who dreams of a conservatism without nationalism, without militarism, and without capitalism? Can’t we imagine a conservatism without Americanism (just how could a revolutionary project be “conservative,” again?)? A conservatism without a Constantinian Christendom?
Fors Clavigera: Wanted: A Conservatism Sans…
It’s not even [...]
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 [...]
Bishop Willimon , co-author with Stanley Hauerwas in Resident Aliens, posts a great post:
The angel did not say good news for some people. The angel was bold to say good news for all people….
Good news this day. There is born for you a savior. Our flags, government, armies, cannot save. Only that baby [...]
I spied this article, and the closing point about community seems to have a hint of individualism embedded in it, for all its talk of the “community”. I don’t think the author realizes it, and perhaps a couple of years ago, I wouldn’t have noticed it myself, but look:
A community is a living and breathing [...]
In the chapter on “recapturing” the “first love” zeal in The God of Intimacy and Action, I am inclined to disagree with Tony Campolo again. When he talks about having the “urges” and uncontrollable desire to “tell the gospel story”, and includes an account of how a former drug addict calls it a “high without [...]
(the following occurred to me just as I finished the preceding post about COS’s seeking to live as an alternative society; as a “recovery group” for resisting he addictions of and to our culture):
The end of a chapter in Campolo’s new book collaboration is a bit puzzling to me, as it stops sort just as [...]
As is so often the case, Dan has written a post , that as a Christmas reflection, fits my own longings this year:
We are reminded of how incapable we are of giving good gifts to others, and so we drive ourselves deeper and deeper into debt and exchange commodities with one another — [...]
The title of this post is from another of Dan’s posts this week, which ties right in to the first (longing for the ‘God With Us’), which is tied to the hope that we have in the entering of God into our story, which is the crux of the Christmas observance. It’s not TOTALLY celebration, [...]
The New Orleans “deal”
Well I just got back from New Orleans and I was so struck to see these huge housing developments it’s just so clear that this thing that’s being called reconstruction is nothing of the sort.
The tragedy, in part, was created by 25 years of neglect of the public sphere, [...]
In a TIME interview, Naomi Klein explains the connection between Chicago-School style economics and the rise of “Disaster Capitalism” in the Southern Cone countries.
Milton Friedman is held up as really the guru of the modern global market. But my view on Friedman is, I don’t think it’s his fault in the sense that the [...]
It appeals to / points out the hope in all of this: the coming together of the victims , and the joining of their resistance by people who “work for their right to be a part of a communal recovery”…….
New Orleans:
And, with the dispossession by corporations and public private partnerships in New Orleans [...]
This is what mass demonstrations in Iraq had people shouting. We NEVER heard this in the US Media. But there were massive mobilizations against what proved to be , for Iraqis, the REAL face of the occupation; that of selling off their factories and providers of their infrastructure to for-profit-only foreign corporations.
By way of blowing [...]
Yet another video with Naomi Klein talking about The Shock Doctrine
From Chapter 18 of The Shock Doctrine, another scary thought/revelation:
On August 5, 2004, the White House created the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, headed by former US Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual. Its mandate is to draw up elaborate “post-conflict” plans for up to twenty-five countries that are not, as of [...]
They’re 7 and 6, against what looks to me to be the weakest schedules in the NFL. They’re struggling offensively against the 31st ranked Chiefs defense. And they are nauseatingly conservative already, after moving down the field with absolute ease on their first possession.
They just allowed the chiefs to convert a 3rd and 14 on [...]
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