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...
by Don Veinot | Aug 26, 2010 | Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, General, Marxism, Socialism
My wife, Joy, is ½ Danish. While working on our family genealogy, which she has online, a cousin who lives in Denmark contacted her. She and her family came to the states about a month ago and we had a wonderful time getting to know them. We had some interesting...
by Don Veinot | Aug 19, 2010 | Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, General, Marxism, Socialism
The Barna organizations latest poll, The Crisis of Confidence in the Church. The following paragraph states the issue: “I’d encourage you to pause and think about the significance of losing people’s confidence. A leader can only sustain forward movement if...
