I've spent part of the morning reading about the 17th century Scottish Covenanters who resisted the incursions of King Charles & Archbishop Laud into the Scottish Kirk, and I fear trouble may be brewing.
This is a fine book, indeed -- beautifully written and succint. Raboteau profiles seven of the most consequential US theo-political radical reformers of the 20th century, revealing their myriad interconnections and common aims that crossed the boundaries of their religious diversity.
"Rather than seeing AI as a radical break from traditional authorship, our article suggests we're witnessing the latest evolution in a long history of collaborative creation." ~ @wtmcmaken.bsky.social
"Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen.... For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies." ~ Rev. 18:2-3
So that bit about Mao's cultural revolution at the end made me choke on my coffee. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Protecting our First Amendment freedom of worship should be a cause that unites people of faith across confessional and ideological differences.
Someone has set up a tracker of people who have "disappeared" in the US at the hands of the government's immigration enforcement agency
Four U.S. legislators who "get it": Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Sanders, Sen. Murphy, and now (most emphatically!), Sen. Booker. They have my attention, and I'm listening.
Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
New blog post: Prometheus's Three Challenges to #Christian Theology According to Czech theologian Jan Milíč Lochman. How the mythological #titan became a focal point in Marxist-Christian dialogues of the 1960s. Read more! #Theology #Marxism
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
True confession. I do observe Lent (to some extent), but I don't take it with the utmost seriousness. Holy Week is mainly what interests me.
truly kicking around the notion of a William Stringfellow Society as an ecumenical Christian resistance structure
"Listen to this man" - #KarlBarth on William Stringfellow. 40 years after his death, Stringfellow's prophetic critique of #empire, consumerism and privatized #spirituality feels more urgent than ever.
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F. William Stringfellow -- lawyer, theologian, holy agitator -- entered into eternal life 40 years ago today. episcopalarchives.org/.../show/lea...
Ellison's Invisible Man is an incredible, mind-blowing read.
I wrote a primer on the work of William Stringfellow, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his death.
Today marks 40 years since William Stringfellow's passing - the lawyer, activist & Episcopal #theologian who challenged #America's moral powers. His work on "principalities and powers" remains vital for our fraught times.
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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”
I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
Can't remember if I shared this already, so if I did, please indulge me a re-post. derevth.blogspot.com/2025/02/mark...
The homilist, channeling Walter Wink's reading of the RCL Gospel reading (Luke 6:27-38), said what is called for acts of "subversive love."
I heard a preacher today call out recent actions by the U.S. federal government "evil," a designation he says he doesn't use lightly. I recall Luther's statement, from the 1518 Heidelberg Disputation: "A theology of the cross calls a thing what it is."
