Tag: consumer culture
It Is Time to Occupy Christmas, and End the Real War on Christmas
The Real 'War On Christmas' is not the one over which the right-wing punditocracy annually wrings its hands. Too long has the profit motive occupied Christmas. Perhaps it is time for Christians to Occ... Read More
‘Tis the Season to Consume
‘Tis the season to spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. The twelve days of debt are upon us and the annual festival of fights has begun. Apparently pepper spray will be... Read More
Seven Types of Scholarship
What are scholars for? I offer for your consideration seven types of religious scholarship: priest, scribe, gnostic, revolutionary, rabbi, scientist, and contemplative.... Read More
The Gift of Interaction
I am working in downtown Boston again. My workplace is great and I really love that I walk through the oldest park in America every morning. What I don’t love seeing are the homeless men and wom... Read More
Love and Weight Loss
Weight. The very word is heavy, overweighted. Weight on my plate. Weight in my gut. Weight in my heart. Weight of the world. Heavy, heavy, heavy…it’s such a bad word. It’s something none of ... Read More
Occupy Wall Street: Abundance v Scarcity
While preparing for class recently, I read an article by Walter Brueggemann “The Liturgy of Abundance, the Myth of Scarcity” which takes a Christian theological analysis to the notions of abundanc... Read More
Christianity’s Role in the Occupy Wall Street Movement
As the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests continue to grow, I have been asking myself what role religion should play or has played in this entire situation, particularly how we, as a society, got to su... Read More
Steve Jobs and the Ascendance of Secular Culture
In The Gospel of Steve Jobs[1], Andy Crouch discusses Jobs’s influence on contemporary culture as the shepherding of a flock of secular sheep. Crouch wrote the article in January of 2011 when Jobs w... Read More