Glenn Beck, ultraconservative infotainer and TV host, has recently decided that “social justice” is a code word for fascism. When I first heard this news, I couldn’t believe it was not a headline from the satirical newspaper The Onion. What tortured and specious logic could he possibly employ to literally link Adolf Hitler to Archbishop [...]
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The religious aspect of health care
There certainly has been a lot of debate in the media over health care. While one could argue about a deontological claim to health insurance vs. a natural rights claim to health and welfare vs. a social contract theory vs. well… you get the picture.
One thing that isn’t explored as much is the role of [...]
Re: Cage Match Christology
Peter -
Hard words for some hard (bodied) Christians. First, I have to take offense that you would use that picture of my father in his twenties to represent your tough guy Jesus. Not cool.
I guess I’m just enamored with the simultaneous concretizing and exaggerating that’s happening here. We use the word “fighting” pretty frequently in [...]
Cage Match Christology
On February 1, the New York Times reported on an apparently growing segment of the nondenominational Christian world: mixed martial arts bouts. This is not to say that they’ve noticed very muscly men with Christian tattoos climbing into the ring. Rather, this is the story of how some congregations are using mixed martial arts (MMA) [...]
A Priest or A Soldier
The re-boot of the early 1980s TV show “V” has caused me to ponder the role of ordained ministers in violent conflict and the singularity of homo sapiens as special creations of God.
Re: Dollar, Dollar Bills Y’all
Ah, the Prosperity Gospel. Let me get one thing out of the way before diving into the contents of the article Preston posted: I’m 100% against the Prosperity Gospel. My personal belief is that faithful adherence to Christianity calls us to question, if not absolutely reject, Capitalism. Accordingly, I am no friend of the Prosperity [...]
Re: Urine Trouble
I spent a bit of time combing through a lot of the commentary on the Fox News article referencing this particular episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. The discussion there seems to be dominated by the notion of Christians as a persecuted minority group. I’ll come back to that issue in a minute.
First, as you mentioned [...]
Urine Trouble
So Larry David, on his show Curb Your Enthusiasm, got a drop of tinkle on a picture of Jesus. The camera zooms in. It appears the image of Jesus has a single tear rolling down his cheek.
“Praise God! It’s a miracle,” two women decide as they fall to their knees in prayer.
The next day The [...]
Re: Who Speaks for Christianity?
You’re correct, Peter, that the progressive side needs to have some inklings of doubt about possessing the correct vision of Christianity—as does the conservative side. Does Christian equal conservative? Of course not; nor is it liberal. The important part now is that each side continue to hear the other. By not paying attention to the [...]
Who speaks for Christianity?
A popular trope among religious liberals and progressives is that there is a great, unrecognized majority of our kind. If the mainstream media would only seek out Jay Bakker or James Cone instead of Rick Warren or Pat Robertson, we’d get a more accurate image of contemporary Christian belief. It is a hopeful thought to [...]