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Excerpt from Provoking God

One of the comforting things about faith is certainty. One of the most dangerous things about faith is certainty. At the risk of being identified with one certain faith, I am posting the conclusion to my book-length project, Provoking God: Sacred Hope, Social Justice, and the Hebrew Bible. Though I now hear and follow and …

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Reposting: Theory of Monetized Empathy

Theory of Monetized Empathy – states that people are more likely to be oppressed by other people if they lack financial well-being. Intersectionality still applies. This is a holistic theory, all encompassing, and true. Given the reality of economic inequality and humanity’s refusal to intellectually entertain abolishing currency, we are left with the reality that …

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Short Note: John Bellamy Foster thinks mass murder is acceptable

Ecosocialism does not include mass murder, but it seems, John Bellamy Foster did not get the memo. Here he is quoting Lenin with reverence: In applying a historical materialist critique to the process of the destruction of reason, Lukács, periodised the growth of irrationalism in terms of the imperialist or monopoly stage of capitalism. Lenin …

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A Vision for a Culture of Emancipatory Human Rights

Ken Booth’s essay, “Three Tyrannies,” from the text, Human Rights in Global Politics (eds. Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler), posits a highly instructive foundation stone, a guide map, for societal change that considers our differences, argumentative positions, and then reifies human worth through a simple matter of direct application, though in reality, confrontation to …

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The Falsehood of Authorship as Authority

Authority comes in the form of peacekeeping and the art of conflict resolution, not in an individual who writes five volumes on a philosophy of snake-like symbolism – all while inserting themselves into the work: a self-referential master-pretense of autography. It is one thing to illustrate, to explicate, how oppression works. It is another to …

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God is Coming for Me Soon: My Ongoing, Complex, Relationship with Progressive Theology

Recently I wrote the poem, “A Vision of Sands,” about seeing my God with Her clinched hand, either about to rescue her people or already in the process of already doing so. This was not poetic extravagance, but an actual minor vision I experienced. This was far from the first time over the years, the …

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Capitalism and Violence-Customs

There is the potential movement today for even the brightest types of democracies to normalize into a hybrid totalitarian, democracy-lite, formational violence. Of course, whether these institutions were ever true democracies to begin with should, must be questioned, but that historical mapping is beyond the scope of this present section, though not out of mind. …

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Rights and Responsibilities: Addressing Love and Violence in a Post-Capitalist World

Love is always wise: So I heard a voice, perhaps it was a bird, telling me. At first, this is offensively incorrect. It means rejecting all means of self-protection, all methods of self-preservation. This is not the world we live in. We live in a fraught world of assorted love where real psychological, financial, emotional, …

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Memo: Desensitization to Violence in Fiction May Be a (Contemporary) “Evolutionary” Trait

“Evolution is blind and drink. It stumbles along through trial and error and emerges with a barely adequate excuse of a being.” – Dinal, from The Orville episode, “Mortality Paradox” I realize violence has always existed in fictional tales. This is nothing new. However, I would argue that physical violence of our current era in …

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