Notes From an Employed Philosopher →
McCrory can hide behind the claim that this is about creating jobs, but it’s not. It’s about class, it’s about power, and it’s about who has access to education
The Gospel is not about being good.... →
The gospel is not about being good. The gospel is about knowing that we are loved by the God who is always for us and nothing can change that.
Rob and the Church? →
Maybe he sees no point in talking to an institution that is seeking only it’s own preservation while God is outside the institutions in other human communities casting out demons and transforming the world whether the Christians wish to or not. Why does Rob step outside the walls? Well, because he believes God does and always has. Rob is interested in following God and not Christians. Some will claim that this is a false dichotomy. I understand that, but Rob points to the story where someone is casting out demons and the disciples of Jesus want to stop them since they don’t know them. Jesus says, “whoever is not against you is for you.”
[T]here can be no ontological assurance of convergence and unity without our reading into cultural practices the very projected convergence and unity presupposed by our own perspectives, that is, vicious circularity.
— Cornel West. The Cornel West Reader (Kindle Locations 5620-5621). Kindle Edition.
Liberation theologies are the principal forms of Christian prophetic thought and action in our contemporary age.
— Cornel West. The Cornel West Reader (Kindle Locations 5631-5632). Kindle Edition.
Keep Talking Complimentarians, Keep Talking
For the inner workings of the belief, relational, and rhetorical structures necessary to support the Complimentarian position (especially at the popular and lived level), see the following post by Emily Wierenga.
The lost art of servanthood (a letter to my feminist sisters)
Be sure to read the comments where Emily herself unmasks everything that is needed to hold the position. The pushback that the position gets by Egalitarians and Feminists is spectacular, so be sure to read the comments.
Ultimately, the persecutors always convince themselves that a small number of people, or even a single individual, despite his relative weakness, is extremely harmful to the whole of society.
— Girard, René; Freccero, Yvonne (1989-01-08). The Scapegoat (p. 15). Johns Hopkins University Press. Kindle Edition.
Every lament is a love-song.
— Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son (Kindle Location 18). Kindle Edition.
