Just found this just before my bedtime tonight……started watching it….will continue on tomorrow. Sounds really good so far……I love hearing his stories
Shane Claiborne - “The Gospel as a Way of Life: A Model for Urban Ministry”
Moyers is brilliant as usual.
I was disappointed on several fronts with all this stuff. I was disappointed that Wright’s comment to Moyers, about Obama “doing what politicians do” , which was not something I initially took as a negative (because I agreed with him on that) was something at which Obama took great offense, feeling that would call into question his sincerity. But Obama does have a problem here as a politician. It is impermissible for anyone who wants to win a presidential election to have his “patriotism questioned”, and so any and all “slurs on America” have to be rejected, and so it would place great doubt in the “minds of the electorate” if a candidate were to attempt to “defend” or “explain” such “blasphemy” against the Republic.
Then Wright went on from Moyers and “acted out” for audiences in two subsequent appearances.
The whole thing makes me sick about the idolatry of nation in this country, and among the people of the church in America, and also the impossibility of the task of avoiding the “guilt by association”, or even less possible, any understanding/acceptance of how church trumps politics, and nation. I’m not even so sure that it does for Obama either, if he were being “other” than a politician.
I am not a “believer” in Obama bringing any “change I can believe in”. I just want some change from the carrying out of nationhood that does NOT believe in what present administration has tried or wants to try. They’ve clearly sidetracked this country in disastrous ways, in just about every area onto which they have put their grubby, elite, money sucking paws.
Now a Republican presidential candidate has said it
“My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will — that will then prevent us — that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East,” McCain said.
He didn’t just “seem to suggest it” as this MSNBC article says. He ASSUMED it. And it reveals how hypocritical Republicans are when they question someone’s patriotism when they suggest such a thing.
Not that we need John McCain to prove this for us, but hopefully people will see that even their “freedom and liberty” heroes are just assuming that we’ll take the sell , and that it really is about oil. Duh!
McCain: Iraq war was for oil? - First Read - msnbc.com
hat tip to Dave Winer for this
Three very big influences/contributors to my journey, here in Nashville:
The Office of Spiritual Development has put together a comprehensive schedule of events that focus on spirituality’s place in the world of American politics. The complete schedule of events includes:
• Citizenship and Faith – Tony Campolo – September 3, 2008
• The American Empire and the Kingdom of God – Dr. Stanley Hauerwas – September 17, 2008
• Jesus for President – Shane Claiborne – October 1, 2008
News & Media: Belmont Plans Innovative, Debate-Related Programming for 2008-09
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