by Jonathan Miles | Oct 27, 2011 | Economy, General, Marxism, Politics, Socialism
Well, it was only a matter of time that the Occupy Wall Street crowd would drag Jesus into there amorphous angst. I found this picture on one of my friend’s “wall” on Facebook. Of course I had to get involved. Unless you’ve been living under a...
by Don Veinot | Jul 28, 2011 | Evangelical Left, Liberal Theology, Marxism, Rob Bell, Scripture, Socialism, Theology
I was talking with my partner in crime, Jonathon Miles, about this week’s blog and he mentioned a quote that C.S. Lewis had made about having first things first. In my trolling the Internet in search of the quote I stumbled across something that combined the quote...
by Don Veinot | May 19, 2011 | Culture Driven Church, Human Rights Violations, Marxism, Politics
When New York artist Andres Serrano plunged a Qur’an into a glass container of his own urine and photographed it under the title Urine for the Qur’an, he said he was making a statement on the misuse of religion. Controversy has followed the work ever since, but...
by Jonathan Miles | Jan 6, 2011 | Evangelical Left, General, Marxism, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Politics, Scripture, Socialism
Since, the holidays are over and school is about to reconvene, I am (to put it mildly) busier than a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest as we say in Mississippi. However, I wanted to revisit the discussion about Jesus and Social justice because we got such...
by Don Veinot | Dec 9, 2010 | Evangelical Left, General, Marxism, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Politics, Socialism
In last week’s blog, Was Jesus into Social Justice? Jonathan raised to assumptions that would seem to, as Jonathan put it, “are indeed hiding behind the furniture at Sojourners.” We had some great responses to the blog but I thought I would revisit the assumptions as...
by Jonathan Miles | Dec 2, 2010 | Evangelical Left, General, Marxism, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Politics, Socialism
So this is one of those YouTube . . . what are the young people calling it these days . . . “mash-up” of some comments by Jim Wallis calling for the redistribution of wealth in the name of social justice. Normally I would be wary of homemade videos of...
