“An ICE agent, like Adam and Eve, hides and seeks never to be found. He hides and thus avoids the ethical obligation summoned by standing before another, vulnerable to them as they are vulnerable to him.”
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New with the Century: The politics of masking through the lens of Emmanuel Levinas
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Skateboarding is beautiful and watching this was a near-religious experience.
New essay out with @christiancentury.bsky.social on prayer, protest, and my dissatisfaction with much of how prayer is framed in relationship to politics these days.
For-profit immigrant camps. Sanctuary churches under threat. Deportations without trial. Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf makes the case: now is the time for people of faith to resist.
📖 Now live! Read in The Bias Magazine, a premier voice of the Christian left: christiansocialism.com/2025/09/06/t...
A text-based image that says "MONKS pooled resources, abolished private property, and organized collective labor." The logo for the Institute of Christian Socialism is at the bottom.
Sources are listed for the claim. There are two sources: Arvanitidis, P. & Sofia's, C. 2023. 'The Byzantine monastery as a Commons', Revisit de History Industrial, 33 (89): 107-142. Ponzetti, J. 2014. 'Christian monasticism and sustainable communal life', International Journal of Community Diversity, 13 (1): 1-12.
All this, centuries before Marx. What might their example say to us about community and economics today? #ChristianSocialism #TheBias
“Mass mobilization seriously undermines the status quo. Perhaps this is why Trump called in the National Guard and Marines in California, despite objections from local government.”
– @crbernasol.bsky.social
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New essay out with @christiancentury.bsky.social, in which I write about No Kings, John Berger (my fav), mass mobilization, and the need for other organizing practices (credit to my activist friend-comrades for teaching me their ways).
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My interview on liberal socialism with @smashmammon.bsky.social
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A bit late on sharing this here. But I wrote a piece on framing liberation in terms of struggle, and I was deeply inspired by the Theology of Struggle movement from the Philippines in thinking along these lines.
Grateful to @christiancentury.bsky.social for letting me write about it.
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“A seminary for the people would imagine its work, and the cultivation of its students’ scholarly and pastoral vocations, in terms of what it owes to the public in which it is situated.”
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The Case for the Politics of Love
structures is the power of majorities. Effective political action must therefore learn how to construct and mobilize political majorities with shared concerns. Prophetically, we are compelled to press beyond narrowly conceived identities because love for the common resists the imposition and policing of rigid boundaries. Following this prophetic tradition, West and Söelle help us envision what forms an emancipatory political desire might look like on a mass scale, connected with and yet distinct from the interests engendered by identity. Accordingly, for both, class conflict is central, and their interpretations of Christian faith and the political agency it supports are connected with the interests of the vast majority, the demos as a whole. THE BIAS
Rather than justice, David True and Tom James call for the revolutionary politics of love and desire as the grounds for transformative, radical, change. Read more here: christiansocialism.com/2025/02/25/a...
The Radical Witness of Gary Dorrien's Left-Intellectual LIfe by Matthew McManus
Gary Dorrien’s new memoir is a meditative and unhurried account of the people, ideas, and history that influenced a life of deep scholarship and witness charged with the convictions that Christianity at its best activates a life of radical political commitment. christiansocialism.com/2025/01/27/t...
A humble appeal to theologians and Christian media: Christians around the world are organizing for debt justice during the Jubilee Year. They'll do it with or without the help of theologians and journalists, but it's a unique opportunity to show how valuable these fields are for Christian action.
Flyer reading: "White Property, Black Trespass: A Book Talk on the Religion of Criminalization & the Religion of Abolition. Andrew Krinks with Christophe Ringer & Jason Lydon. Pilsen Community Books. January 9. 7:00 PM"
If you’re in Chicago on Thursday, Jan 9, join me @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social at 7pm for a book talk + conversation with Rev. Dr. Christophe Ringer + Rev. Jason Lydon on the religion of criminalization + the religion of abolition.
Books + posters will be available.
Let your Chicago people know!
1. Work more and better 2. Work by a schedule 3. Wash teeth if any 4. Shave 5. Take bath 6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk 7. Drink very scant if any 8. Write a song a day 9. Wear clean clothes — look good 10. Shine shoes 11. Change socks 12. Change bed cloths often 13. Read lots good books 14. Listen to radio a lot 15. Learn people better 16. Keep rancho clean 17. Dont get lonesome 18. Stay glad 19. Keep hoping machine running 20. Dream good 21. Bank all extra money 22. Save dough 23. Have company but dont waste time 24. Send Mary and kids money 25. Play and sing good 26. Dance better 27. Help win war — beat fascism 28. Love mama 29. Love papa 30. Love Pete 31. Love everybody 32. Make up your mind 33. Wake up and fight
Woody Guthrie’s New Years Resolutions from 1943.
How Selling your Soul went secular by Ian Afflerbach
For more than 2,000 years, the idea of “selling your soul” has generated a moral shock in the Western world. Only by recognizing the history of “selling your soul” can we understand why an anti-religious thinker like Marx would end up quoting from Genesis www.christiansocialism.com/2024/12/16/h...
That a song can capture a social moment never ceases to amaze me.
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The Democratic Farmer-Labor Party's Enduring Lessons for Contemporary Politics by Rudy Macaj
Rudy Macaj looks at the religious influences shaping the Democratic Farm Labor Party and progressive politics in the Midwest. www.christiansocialism.com/2024/12/03/t...
Rewatched #itsawonderfullife last night and thought again about this piece I wrote for @smashmammon.bsky.social many years back, still the essay of mine that makes me happiest:
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"... in so far as socialism in this sense means the satisfaction of material need and social justice in a material democracy, socialism is the symbol of the liberation of men from the vicious circle of poverty." - J. Moltmann, The Crucified God (1973)
For this week's Reconstruct, Josiah R. Daniels talks with Andrew Wilkes, co-chair of the board for the Institute for Christian Socialism, on wanting Christians to collectively push the horizon of what’s possible.
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