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Showing posts with label 41.Kingdom.Institutions.Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 41.Kingdom.Institutions.Politics. Show all posts
2025-02-18

Three Strands of Classical Liberalism

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Recently, I have been part of a book study of Patrick J. Deneen’s “ Why Liberalism Failed ”. Three conversations into Deneen and I find myse...
2024-06-14

Metric Maladies: The Disease of elevating Quantity over Quality

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As Jerry Z. Muller notes in his book " The Tyranny of Metrics ", we live in an age of " metric fixation ". We use quanti...
2023-03-16

The Body of Christ needs a Left and a Right

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This was written in 2007 for a class I was taking on the Church and Social Change. I have never posted it online because I received negative...
2022-08-31

The Politics of God’s Kingdom

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For a long time I have said: Wherever there are people, there are politics. Politics are the distinctive ways of organizing a community, ens...
2022-06-20

A Prayer for Juneteenth

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I wrote this as a private devotion as I reflected on Juneteenth . Perhaps it might help you or your faith community. 
2022-05-26

Where should we pray?

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With all the troubling news that happens on a regular basis, we are inundated with people telling us they are offering their “thoughts and p...
2022-01-14

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Scripture

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At the school I serve as chaplain, I was recently asked to provide some Scriptural reflections on our commitment to diversity, equity, and i...
2021-12-30

Resurrecting the Matrix: An Ideological Review

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I just saw Matrix Resurrections. Here are my responses in no particular order:
2021-12-01

Stupidity as a gateway to Fascism

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These excerpts on stupidity as a gateway to fascism are taken from a circular letter, addressing many topics, which was written by Dietrich ...
2021-01-16

The Way of Christ is Progress

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Recently, as people on social media are wont to do, a long time friend of mine posted a really reductionistic meme about the "unchangin...
2021-01-15

Living Vine, Dead Trellis

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A poetic reflection on John 15.5 and institutional religion.
2020-09-13

Is a Politics of Life possible in a culture of death?

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The LORD of Love is the God of Life. God’s Love is shown precisely in healing broken lives, and protecting vulnerable lives, and elevating e...
2020-09-03

Is Christianity Political?

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As we gallop into yet another conflicted election cycle, it is inevitable that people will ask the question of whether Christianity is polit...
2020-08-16

A Squandered Jubilee

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It seems God has given us what could be a Jubilee year. But we are squandering it.  “You will make the fiftieth year holy, proclaiming freed...
2020-06-11

Privatize Racist Monuments: A Modest Proposal

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In the wake of the George Floyd protests, we are seeing protesters around the world, from every tribe and tongue, rise up and dismantle monu...
2020-06-06

The Most Damnable Reason

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The most damnable reason for existing  Is to be liked. 
2020-02-28

Human rights or God’s rights?

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We get tied up in knots about whether healthcare is a human right or an earned privilege. We argue about whether food is a human right or...
2020-02-02

On Voting for the Least Bad Candidate

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A poem about our current political moment... They say  VOTE! But then they Won’t Give us anyone Worth voting for. 
2019-11-07

On Dividing and Conquering

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A fundamental means of controlling any population is “divide and conquer”. Identify those who are oppressed, abused, and excluded, and th...
2019-02-14

Monarchic Anarchist Theocratic Pluralist Entrepreneurial Socialism

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I love "world building" science fiction: The kind where a big sprawling universe is created which includes all kinds of details ...