“We’d like to cultivate a sense of community” is a nauseating phrase. It’s not that I disapprove of community, but rather that we’d settle so readily for a mere “sense of” it. We desire a sense of belonging, but seem unable to pursue belonging proper. We must resist our tendency towards a mere “sense of” […]
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USAmerican conservatives, generally speaking, hate taxes. They reserve a special hatred for any notion of “spreading the wealth around” with said taxes, as evidenced by the laughable tea party protests organized by Fox “News.” These are the same types of people who, during George W. Bush’s terms as president, called dissent against the so-called “War […]
Realism is always already a failure as a Christian approach to either politics or philosophy (and I believe that the latter is generally more about former when you poke it hard enough), since it takes the world as it is as a given. And yet, the world as it is is fundamentally judged and subverted […]
I am fascinated by what ironic creatures most of us are. We come to some insight, some epiphany or—dare I say—revelation, and it so often has precisely the opposite effect that it should. Instead of being filled with wonder, thankfulness and humility, we become arrogant and condescending towards those lacking our new insight. We puff […]
