At least a month ago I got an idea for Lent. I had been thinking for sometime about a way to explore and express the Lenten journey in a creative way. I desired to find a way of walking through this time which wasn’t simply marked by giving up a basic desire. I wanted to [...]

“What makes capital exceptional is its unique combination of values of freedom and equality and the facts of exploitation and domination: the gist of Marx’s analysis is that the legal-ideological matrix of freedom-equality is not a mere “mask” concealing exploitation-domination, but the very form in which the latter is exercised.” Žižek from First As Tragedy, [...]

Most of what Phyllis Ticke discussed in her book The Great Emergence was very enlightening in perspective, tying so many different ideas and movements into such a larger narrative. She was very graceful in her attitude of neutrality towards her/my/our history. It seems that she worked very hard to keep an nonjudgmental attitude towards it all. [...]