Every gun that it made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘politics’
May 4, 2009
The future is mestizo…
In this post I want to engage the integrative motif of Elizondo–mestizaje. The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet, Revised Edition, Virgilio Elizondo
Mestizaje: the process through which two totally different peoples mix biologically and culturally so that a new people begins to emerge, e.g., Europeans and Asians give birth to Euroasians; Iberians and Indians [...]
February 17, 2009
A dialogue on abortion and the politics of Jesus…
With the permission of my conversation partner, I am inserting all the emails we exchanged in sequence. My intent in my blog post from February 15 (EMS class assignment to engage with Stuart Murray, Post-Christendom) was never to misrepresent in any way V.’s perspective. In the interest of open dialogue with the common goal of [...]
February 15, 2009
On faith and politics in Post-Christendom…
A movement that proclaimed grace and practiced justice, a faith that had at its center a crucified man as the hope of human and cosmic transformation, could not have been converted to a religious civilization like any other without serious damage to its very essence.
-Vinoth Ramachandra, Gods that Fail: Modern Idolatry and Christian Mission
Perhaps the [...]
January 21, 2009
Time moves on…
…social reality (whatever in a worldview is construed as ‘the real world’) is not only the cause of the outlook or standpoint of those who inhabit it (thus culture creates outlooks); paradoxically, their social perception of reality is the cause of a people’s world or culture itself (thus outlooks create cultures).
–James McClendon citing the work [...]
November 5, 2008
What the American electorate is saying…
…there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.
The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red [...]
October 30, 2008
A call for civil discourse (making room for the other)…
I received a telephone call this morning while working in the church office at Sunnyside Mennonite Church. The caller indicated that he was concerned about the possible outcome of the upcoming presidential election. He stated that he was calling local pastors to encourage them to listen to what James Dobson has to say tonight on [...]
June 20, 2008
The politics of friendship…
As I came back, I saw on the bank of the river a great many trees on the one side and on the other. He said to me, ‘This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah; and when it enters the sea, the sea of stagnant waters, the water will [...]
