Distorting the views of the dead

I think both John Howard Yoder and St. Augustine are crying in their graves at the sight of this man’s distortion of their politics.

Religion is not a standalone category

Check out Timothy Fitzgerald’s latest post, Religion is not a standalone category, over at The Immanent Frame.

Justice without Faith is Dead

I highly recommend listening to Eugene McCarraher’s lecture “Justice without Faith is Dead” over at The Other Journal. The lecture was given very recently at the Film, Faith, and Justice forum in Seattle, Washington. McCarraher is one of the most creative and compelling social historians working today and he is also a highly conversant theologian in his own right.

Songwriting as prophetic voice

Check out my Dad’s new series of posts on the prophetic voice of songwriting at rogerflyer.com

His own description of the series:

“In this series of blog posts I am postulating that songwriters serve as prophetic voices to tribes, governments, popular culture and to Christendom. Whether or not they are God’s prophets is where the conversation begins….”

So far he’s written four great posts, most of which are lyrics of his own songs:

1) Where have all the flowers gone?

2) Jesus was from Jersey

3) Blood and Land

4) Where you Greta Garbo?

On the financial crisis

A couple interesting articles on the current financial crisis: “Welcome to the faith-based economy” by Arjun Appadurai and Slavoj Zizek’s “Don’t Just Do Something, Talk”