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The tagline of my blog says, “theology, politics, and other musings.”  The ordering was intentional.  My own interests — to grossly understate — have to do with theology first and politics second, more specifically with the intersection of politics and theology/religion and how one effects (or dictates, however you choose to view it) the other.  [...] Read more »

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Part I: Only Americans Matter
Part II: We Draw Our Circle too Small
Part III: Patriotic Fixations
Part IV: Media Violence and the Ease of Abstraction

I suppose it’s time to wrap this series up.  It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted on this topic, so let’s revisit a few things.
In Part one, I introduced the overall [...] Read more »

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On this day last year, I wrote a post expressing my regret and distaste for the Fourth of July also known as Independence Day in the United States.  The celebration of any empire is, to me, to undermine the better qualities of human nature not mention to the rejection of the teachings of Jesus.
To be [...] Read more »

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From The Prophetic Imagination:

“The alternative [prophetic] consciousness to be nurtured, on the one hand, serves to criticize in dismantling the dominant consciousness.  To the extent, it attempts to do what the liberal tendency has done, engage in a rejection and delegitimizing of the present ordering of things.  On the other hand, that alternative consciousness [...] Read more »

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There’s been a lot of noise going around the blogosphere over the past week or so concerning Emergent Village and their going mainstream, or selling-out, or whatever and by doing so losing the veracity of their marginal and thereby prophetic voice.  
Behold the great dilemma we all must face. Do we compromise ourselves only to lose our [...] Read more »

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