by Don Veinot | Jul 26, 2012 | Brian McLaren, Culture and Society, Evangelical Left, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Politics, Psychology
The news has been filled to brimming with fodder for blogs the last couple of weeks. Conservatives went into a feeding frenzy with the declaration by Barack Obama: If You’ve Got A Business, You Didn’t Build That . His claim isn’t surprising in light of his...
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 23, 2010 | General, Politically Incorrect Jesus
“What’s Christmas time… but a time for paying bills without money?” (Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol) The meaning of Christmas seems to have been conflicted for a long time now. Charles Dickens well captured the view of the materialists in Ebenezer...
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 | Nov 18, 2010 | Politically Incorrect Jesus, Politics, Psychology
The story is told of football couch, Vince Lombardi’s exasperation with the team he had taken over, the Green Bay Packers and their seeming inability to turn around their 10 year losing streak. It is said that he called the team together and began with the following...
