Bishop, Priest, Protester Arrested in Trinity Wall Street/Occupy Clash
To chants of “We are unstoppable, another world is possible,” a retired Episcopal Bishop led Occupy protestors in climbing over the fence at Duarte Square.
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Simon Critchley, Atheist Religious Thinker on Utopia & the Fiction of Faith
Philosopher Simon Critchley on evangelical atheists, the ‘supreme fiction’ in politics or love, and why the debate over whether you believe in a god is massively irrelevant.
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Money, Technology, and the Silence of Churches: A Conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite
Liberalism has many strengths. It brought God into the world. It allowed us to value the natural order and value human intellect as a way of thinking theologically. But, liberalism is a philosophy of history as progress and harmony—and that’s untrue to the nature of the Fall. Why I use the term “progressivism” instead is that progressivism is movement-based. Progressives are more communitarian, they’re not as individualistic; they have a far savvier sense that history is struggle, and that the world does not want to be changed.
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Nathan Schneider on “occupying faith.”
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Occupy Catholics to Cardinal Dolan: We Aren’t Protesting, We’re Advertising Love
The first step of occupying Catholicly is showing up.
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When Religion is a Refuge for Scoundrels: ‘Ryan Budget’ Edition
Would that it were true that, as Ryan said, “Catholic social teaching is indispensable for officeholders”; Mitt Romney’s description of Ryan’s budget as “marvelous” would no longer be ludicrous.
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Occupy’s Sacred Mob and the Politics of Vagrancy
Recent analyses of religion in the 99% Movement tend to begin with a focus simply on pluralism, asking how diverse forms of religious transcendence—particularly in justice-minded congregations—have aligned themselves with the still-growing wave of Occupations. But the intimacy of life in a park or along a sidewalk is causing traditions to do something more than “coexist” plurally. Religions are colluding and combining.
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To the One-Percenters, With Love
Yes, your colleagues would laugh if you went out to protest. Marie Antoinette laughed too, until she found herself smiling up from the bottom of a wicker basket.
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How Anne Frank Turned Up At Occupy
Throughout his 32-minute set, Mangum returned more than once to the sad fate of the teenage diarist, and in doing so he created a moment that seemed at once a communal high point of the movement and a peculiarly ominous sing-along, Kumbaya mashed up with catastrophe.
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Episcopal Church Divided Over Trinity’s Denial of Occupy
If I were CEO of Trinity Wall Street, I’d be alarmed at the idea of the “unspecified use” apparently demanded by the OWS protesters. But, of course, Trinity Wall Street does not have a CEO, it has ministers.
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