Religious Left Thinkers: “No Middle Ground” with Nationalists – Juicy Ecumenism
Religious left thinkers equate Christendom, nationalists, “Christian Fascists,” and white supremacists; say there is “no middle ground.”
Source: Religious Left Thinkers: “No Middle Ground” with Nationalists – Juicy Ecumenism
Are pro-life Americans welcome in the Democratic Party? Depends who you ask. | America Magazine
A rally hosted by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for a Nebraska Democrat prompted a flurry of questions about the party’s pro-choice orthodoxy.
Source: Are pro-life Americans welcome in the Democratic Party? Depends who you ask. | America Magazine
Pete Buttigieg and The Politics of American Greatness | Kristin Du Mez
Buttigieg must fashion the perfect jeremiad for this historical moment—a call to national repentance and renewal, but one that appeals to myths of American greatness.
Source: Pete Buttigieg and The Politics of American Greatness | Kristin Du Mez
Did Jesus Say That? | Keith Giles
I’ve started to notice that the wisdom of Jesus is a bigger part of our collective intelligence than I ever realized before. I often hear people who […]
The Sacred Power of the World -Stephen D. Blackmer — The New Atlantis
Stephen D. Blackmer on his improbable journey from eco-activism to the priesthood.
Source: The Sacred Power of the World – The New Atlantis
In hindsight, I understand Black Elk’s words: “I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see…. It is from understanding that power comes; and the power in the ceremony was in understanding what it meant; for nothing can live well except in a manner that is suited to the way the sacred Power of the World lives and moves.”
Love Beyond Labels | Keith Giles
You can’t really love the Homeless until you love Debbie or Steve [who happen to be homeless]. You can’t really say you love the LGBTQ […]
Source: Love Beyond Labels | Keith Giles
Author interview: Anthony Bartlett, Virtually Christian – Faith Meets World
Like the tiny coral which over time produces a massive reef, the Christian Gospel has uniquely refashioned the human landscape. The nonviolence and forgiveness of the Crucified One has seeped into the deep structure of human affairs, throwing into relief the victims of human violence, and, at the same time, evoking life-giving responses of compassion, forgiveness and nonviolence. In this sense our world can rightly be called “virtually Christian.”
Source: Author interview: Anthony Bartlett, Virtually Christian – Faith Meets World
The Suffering Servant of Second Isaiah: A Non-Penal Consideration | Matthew Distefano
With our sacrificial glasses put to the side for a moment, what seems fairly clear here is not that the servant gives up his life to satisfy the wrath of God—that would have to be read into the text—rather, the servant willingly gives up his life (nefesh) non-violently (Isaiah 53:9) for the very people who put him to death. He sees the profundity of what he is suffering through and so, gains an understanding and a knowledge that makes “many” righteous (Isaiah 53:11). The knowledge that the servant earns is a recognition of both God’s desires and of what it means to be human. Anthony Bartlett calls it a “new theological-anthropological truth.” To be righteous—that is to say, to be like God—is to be like the suffering servant, the one who has no violence in him (Isaiah 53:9). James G. Williams drives this point further home in the following: “It wasn’t God who caused suffering, it was the oppressors. As the divine voice says in an oracle found in chapter 54: ‘If any one stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.’ ‘Strife’—the conflict of mimetic rivalry that results in violence—does not come from God.”
Source: The Suffering Servant of Second Isaiah: A Non-Penal Consideration | Matthew Distefano
St. John One: One 