Love of money and corporations

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. — The Apostle Paul (1 Timothy 6:10)
Or, as it is rendered in The Message, by Eugene Peterson:
But if it’s only money these leaders are after, [...]

ABC news story on global warming

Methane Burps and Heat Waves: Global Warming Made Visible
(Supercomputer predicts rising temperatures as escaping gas bubbles rise up through the sea)
Corporate, industrial, and political power is more important than taking care of the earth. And it’s going to kill us.
I resist now in every way I can, and I’m actively trying to modify my [...]

apology

my apologies to the 10 or so of you who are currently reading this blog via RSS syndication on Livejournal.  I didn’t realize that every time I edit an entry LJ’s syndication search picks it up.  That’s why you keep getting old entries on your friends page.  I’ll try and resist my urge to edit [...]

Tyranny of the present, the progress myth, and Christian eschatology

this is a brief thought on some thoughts I have swimming around up there that I’m not entirely sure how to articulate. If anyone has any idea how to help me articulate some of this, I’d really appreciate it.
Basically I’m trying to synthesize ideas from three books I’ve read, all three with which I basically [...]

Paul and counterculture theology/civil disobedience

In a comment to my post on Romans 13, Tim said he wasn’t convinced that Paul actually advocated some kind of civil disobedience, so I decided to post a short analysis of two passages from his letters that I think illustrate otherwise, or at the very least make allowances for civil disobedience in a New [...]

The Future of Food

I have to say… this perhaps one of the most frightening films I have ever seen.
official website
The point is not necessarily that the science is bad, per se, though I do have some issues with potential consequences. It seems like, even though there is potential to do good in society with genetic modification, particularly in [...]

a brief case for a different framework of understanding on Romans 13

Particularly, Romans 13:1-7.
(this is an expansion of material I have written elsewhere)
One of my goals with this blog is to begin articulating a Christian theology of resistance to the oppressive forces that have entirely too much power in this world. It is my understanding that Christianity in its ancient context was extremely revolutionary, nonviolently, and [...]

USAmerican self-determination ideals and contradiction

(this is an expanded version of material I have written elsewhere)
I find it odd that the United States celebrates its self-determination as a nation-state on July 4 when politically we have quite a history of denying the same to others when it suits certain political purposes, generally business-related. For example, the Phillippines in that oft-forgotten [...]

Definition of the state

Today, however, we have to say that a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Note that ‘territory’ is one of the characteristics of the state. Specifically, at the present time, the right to use physical force is ascribed to other [...]

Decalogue 2006

If God was to give us the Decalogue (or Ten Commandments, found in Exodus 20:1-17) today… would it look something like this?
And God spoke to them all of these things, and he said:
I am The-One-Who-Is-And-Who-Causes-To-Be, your God, who has freed you from the land of McDonaldization, from the house of consumer-culture slavery.
You must not have [...]

Being a Christian…

does not mean that I vote Republican, listen to crappy music, am unable to talk about anything except how much I love Jesus, spend significant amounts of time moralizing.
It doesn’t mean that I dislike liberals, gays and lesbians, kids with wierd hair and tattoos, and people who don’t believe the same things I do. It [...]