This past weekend had what turned out to be a great conference converging great minds and radical practitioners in little ol’ Springfield, MO. I am pleased that I am able to say that Adam Moore and I were able to contribute something to the conference. Both Adam & I both have a good amount of experience doing […]

“To make a declaration of love is to move on from the event- encounter to embark on a construction of truth. The chance nature of the encounter morphs into the assumption of a beginning. And often what starts there lasts so long, is so charged with novelty and experience of the world that in retrospect […]

“My own philosophical view is attempting to say that love cannot be reduced to any of these approximations and is a quest for truth. What kind of truth? you will ask. I mean truth in relation to something quite precise: what kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of […]

“Selfishness, not any rival, is love’s enemy. One could say: my love’s main enemy, the one I must defeat, is not the other, it is myself, the “myself” that prefers identity to difference, that prefers to impose its world against the world re-constructed through the filter of difference.” Alain Badiou from In Praise of Love

“…the end of metaphysics (the belief in an order of being as stable, necessary, and objectively knowable foundation) is accompanied in contemporary thought and social practice by the death of the moral God, namely the God of philosophers. The end of metaphysics, however, is also and above all the rebirth of the sacred in its […]

Wendell Berry from Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: My interest here is not in the quality or the point of Mr. Kopit’s play, which I did not see (because I do not willingly subject myself to offense). I am interested in the article about him and his play merely as an example of the conventionality […]

“…the end of metaphysics (the belief in an order of being as stable, necessary, and objectively knowable foundation) is accompanied in contemporary thought and social practice by the death of the moral God, namely the God of philosophers. The end of metaphysics, however, is also and above all the rebirth of the sacred in its […]

“The nonbeliever is not interested in an otherworldly salvation, as are believers in other religions; rather he consider it an evasion of the only question he wishes to deal with: the value of earthly existence.” Gustavo Gutierrez’s A Theology of Liberation

‟It is not a matter of ‘struggling for others,’ which suggests paternalism and reformist objectives, but rather of becoming aware of oneself as not completely fulfilled and as living in an alienated society. And thus one can identify radically and militantly with those—the people and the social class—who bear the brunt of oppression. In the light […]

“When a system ceases to promote the common good and favors special interests, the Church must not only denounce injustice but also break with the evil system.” Found in Gustavo Gutierrez’s A Theology of Liberation, originally from “Letter to People’s of the Third World” in Between Honesty and Hope A statement as true today is […]