apropos of last night’s primaries… “There is no reason to despise democratic elections; the point is only to insist that they are not per se an indication of Truth—on the contrary, as a rule, they tend to reflect the predominant doxa determined by the hegemonic ideology…There can be democratic elections which enact an event of [...]

It seems one of the easiest and first ‘critiques’ anyone has about the protesters participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement have is their complicity in corporate controlled capitalism. This is usually voiced by saying something like, “why should I listen to a protester who is tweeting from their iPhone?” The underlying assumption is that one [...]

Recently I’ve heard various people speak and make reference to theology in a post-9/11 world. I didn’t understand exactly what they were speaking about until listening to Philip Clayton speak about it on the Homebrewed Christianity podcast. As I understand it, the dialogue between religious and secularist/atheist dramatically changed with attacks of September 11th. Previously there [...]

I’m not really sure where to begin, my frustrations over this loom so wide. Let me begin this way. Should not our First Amendment rights to free speech protect us from our employers? It seems things have gotten to a certain surreal ridiculousness. Point 1, when did we get to the point where we expect [...]

Here is the concluding comment by Bertrand Russell (from A History of Western Philosophy) on St. Augustine and St. Ambrose & St. Jerome. It is strange that the last men of intellectual eminence before the dark ages were concerned, not with saving civilization or expellig the barbarians or reforming the abuses of the administration, but [...]

I just finished a short biography of Che Guevara (Che Guevara: A Life by Nick Caistor). There is much I could say about him as a man, his ideology, and of course his military actions, though I will limit myself to some of his thoughts while working in Cuba post revolution. Guevara had a rather [...]

With the start of the new year, new terms for school, studying, & teaching, the first real thrust of winter; things have been busy. Here are a few different articles that I found worthwhile enough to save. How To Spot a Church Movement – Tall Skinny Kiwi Andrew Jones passes on some wisdom that he [...]

I have been studying Isaiah lately, out of that study one thing has become very clear; Isaiah has something to say about politics. The first half of the book is directed to contrasting two kings, a classic good guy || bad guy portrait. The interesting point is what the hinge is for Isaiah’s portrayal: faith. [...]

{I came across this knowledge thanks to Tad Delay. Definitely check out his post about it for a fuller review.} There is a new ‘themed’ Bible to hit the shelves, this one based on linking the story of the Bible to the history of the U.S. (you know how our country is founded on Christian [...]

There are two ways that one can go, either fear & protection or openness & love. Here are examples of each from Christendom. TheResurgence – Churches & Pig Flu Tall Skinny Kiwi – Swine flu and a calm, reasonable, rational Church I haven’t been keeping up with this whole ‘thing’; I kind of quit consuming [...]