Building alternative economies that manifest God's love through food justice. Where I work.
Recent Quotes and Commentaries
- C.S. Lewis: “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of
- Margaret Kim Peterson: "And housework of all kinds is increasingly relegated to the fringes of lives filled with other things. In her book The Time Bind
- Charles Eisenstein: "Some would scoff at primitive cave-dwellers who imagined that their representations of animals on cave walls could magically
- Soren Kierkegaard: "The results of reflection are both dangerous and unforeseeable because one can never tell whether the decision which saves a man
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Social Justice
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The movement occupying Washington DC, towards the extrication of corporate monies from our governance. Now defunct.
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Evangelicals reflect on what God's justice looks like. Tony Campolo, longtime Christian activist, and friends.
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Christians occupiers who are serving the Occupy DC movement with a constant, on-the-ground presence.
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Organization working to close the School of the Americas, a training grounds for Latin American soldiers that serves as a pool of contact for CIA-instigated coups.
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The campaign to kick Alvaro Uribe, former president of Colombia, out of Georgetown University.
. . .Uribe Georgetown
Friends
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Feminist and poet. Songs of freedom, whispers of another way.
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Tripp Hudgins, former pastor and a gentle soul. Tripp is always reflecting on something in love. He's an American Baptist.
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A deep South Christian whose spiritual experiments to understand her conservative heritage through new eyes brighten up the path for all of us.
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Brian Merritt, occupyChurch chaplain, activist on behalf of the homeless. Presbyterian pastor. Somehow, a Calvinist in a good way. Much respect for him.
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Micah Bales, meatspace friend, activist, occupyChurch chaplain, thinker, and Christian Quaker church-planter.
. . .Lamb's War -
Julie Clawson, author of Everyday Justice and blogger, always a Christian voice for social justice.
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Kurt Willems, a postevangelical christion and serious advocate for social justice.
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One of my best friends, Thomas Doane, writes on history and theology over at Gospel of John.
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My brother, Peter John, a classical pianist and jazz musician.
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Tripp Hudgins, friend and pastor.
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My pastor and friend, Larry Kamphausen, Prior of the Holy Community, working to found a reconciling religious order.
. . .Priestly Goth
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@jacloninger Hey Jaymie!! I totally just got this. How about a free share next time? — 8 hours 19 min ago |
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"There will always be those who wish to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awaking the same evil in ourselves." Star Trek: into Darkness — 2 days 4 hours ago |
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So we're giving kids SPEED (i.e. Ritalin) to fix a SLEEP problem (ADHD). Think about how that might backfire, folks. http://t.co/j1OSzveaEB — 2 days 7 hours ago |
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Ever come upon something you did before and you say... how did I do that again? And you have to learn how to do it again from scratch. — 2 days 11 hours ago |
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"Slavery stitched to the inside of my clothes... i know love will come to set me free." Ain't No Reason, Brett Dennon — 2 days 11 hours ago |
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How many times has we substituted Sunday worship for doing justice?
God does not accept prayers, sacrifices, or rituals to be substituted for seeking justice and doing good.
"Trample my courts no more," can refer, in our context, to those who wield legal power because they have high-powered lawyers, but do not care about justice itself, like the banks who are foreclosing in automated ways on people who are still making payments on their houses, or refuse to re-negotiate mortgage payments with home owners that are behind on their payments.
So for the bankers:
learn to do good;
and for the rest of us, I believe we are called to stand with the oppressed in the following way:
rescue the oppressed,
defend the orphan,
plead for the widow."