… if they wish to see my thoughts on Matthew Fox’s relatively recent book A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity.
Tag: politics
A New Reformation, by Matthew Fox
So I am definitely going to write a futuristic thing in which Foxean Catholics are sparring with Old Roman Catholics, while New Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians compete for ratings online. The idea of a futuristic second Reformation is one that really does fascinate me, as it could articulate the divisions and issues withing Christendom in interesting ways, ways that highlight just how much, or how little, a version of Christianity might either choose to, or resist the urge to, deform itself to fit popular culture and/or any of several available secular/ideological consensus realities. Fox’s observations in A New …
Get Outta Here, Beanpole
A listmate from a discussion list for the magazine I write a column for, Cahoots, posted a link to an interesting article: Reuters carried a story titled Ban on skinny models shocks fashion world. The logic is not simply that teenagers emulate what they see on the runway, and go bulimic or anorexic as a result… but rather, it’s just that they want to portray “healthy body images” at the government-sponsored Madrid fashion week. You know, you have to sit back and think about just how dysfunctional your civilization is when the demand that its iconic representatives of womanhood (which …
On Appropriation, Race, Popular Culture, and Dorky White Asiaphiles
So I happened upon this blog post at reappropriate, and it got me thinking. To be honest, I didn’t trawl my way through all the comments that followed the post, but I did read a fair number of them. I was tempted to respond with something snide about how young people are so apt to map their personal anger into statements about the entire world, couched in politics for the greater safety from criticism and negative response. But I decided that, as generalizing and as mistaken as parts of the post are (in my opinion), it’s unfair to respond in …
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Adam blogs it like it is: So let’s see… five years after 9/11 and the US is despised the world over, the mightiest army in the world is being nickel-and-dimed to death in a pointless quagmire, Al Qaeda has more members than ever (and several successful franchises as well!), Iran is the dominant power in the Persian Gulf, the guy that ordered the 9/11 attacks is being protected by a key “ally”, our economy is tanking, gas is over $270 a gallon and our government has moved into the business of torture at the retail and wholesale levels. Wow! Can …