After putting it down for a while, I’ve picked up Chris K. Huebner’s excellent and challenging book A Precarious Peace: Yoderian Explorations on Theology, Knowledge, And Identity again. Here is a passage that translates a commitment to peace into a rejection of notions of witness that strive to guarantee conversion:
To say that witness is gift is […]
Archive for October, 2008
Make Something Day is a response to Adbuster’s famous Buy Nothing Day, which is itself a response to that high holy day of American consumerism called Black Thursday. Buy Nothing Day resists consumerism with buying nothing. The people behind Make Something Day have a better idea:
In response to the over-consumptive habits of western culture, Adbusters magazine […]
In keeping with the Wendell Berry theme on this blog lately, here’s a provocative paragraph from the essay “The Agrarian Standard” in Citizenship Papers:
Industrialism prescribes an economy that is placeless and displacing. It does not distinguish one place from another. It applies its methods and technologies indiscriminately in the American East and the American West, in […]
Today is the 2nd annual Blog Action Day, a day for bloggers to take (coordinated) action on a social justice issue. This year’s focus is poverty.
There’s a lot of things that I could say, both positive and negative, about doing a day like this. I’m not going to bother.
What I will say is simply this: poverty exists, […]
A couple of must-reads for those interested in the public implications of faith:
Christ and Culture and Church and Creation - James K.A. Smith reviews D.A. Carson’s Christ and Culture Revisited, and finds it lacking. A gem of a quote:
One gets the sense that Carson’s eternity lacks cultural institutions —an eternity without commerce or politics, art, or […]
I cannot help myself. My duty as a blogger is to assume that whatever poor soul is still reading my blog is interested in everything I read. Wendell Berry is his usual painfully insightful iconoclastic self in this passage from What Are People For?
As a measure of how far we have “progressed” in our industrial economy, […]
