Christmas Post

My posting has gone the way of, well, the way of not posting for various reasons. The most compelling reason of which is spending time developing both the website and some behind-the-scenes stuff for empire remixed. Our blog has just recently gone live, with a Christmas Lament posted by Brian J. Walsh, co-author of Colossians Remixed. The coming weeks will see posts from a number of different people on subjects far and wide, but all addressing ways of living as a Christian in a culture that is at-best indifferent to people of faith. My next post will probably find it's self over on the empire remixed blog. Check out Brian's post, and add the empire remixed site to your reader...make it a New Year's resolution or something.

Empire Remixed

After a bit of a break since their discussion of urban mission and ministry in the Spring, empireremixed is back with a brand new discussion. This time around they'll be taking on Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein and Jesus all at once. Could be a good time. Here's what it's all going to look like: In The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein tells the story of the relationship between electroshock therapy, free market capitalism, and the suppression of democracy. But what can protect disaster-shocked victims from the exploitation of shock and awe tactics? Klein suggests that we need an alternative story to orient us in the face of disastrous disorientation. And so, with the prompting of this text, we will seek to tell an alternative story, with an alternative imagination, for an alternative Kingdom. Placing Klein’s text in dialogue with political theory and theological reflection, we seek to retell the story, with eyes and ears open, as we ask one another the question: What’s your story? Further details can be found at the empireremixed site, or on their facebook group.