Apologies for the long delay in posting the last part of the paper. The end of January and all of February were pretty crazy, we moved into a new house and had to get as much done on that as possible before I started an intensive course (3 credits in 3 weekends!) through SCUPE in [...]
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Classic texts found communities, are sustained by them, and in turn sustain them, and interpretation is like a communal dialogue (or better, multilogue) which takes place between individuals within a community and among community.[1] The Bible specifically is the “classic text” of the church, and the church in turn is the community of its interpretation. [...] The Democrats (and a large chunk of moderates, apparently) believed Obama could save us from the problems of the Bush years. The more libertarian wing of the Republican party looks to Ron Paul. So many people labor under the delusion that who is president really matters worth a damn regarding the fundamental course of US [...] Tags: idolatry, Obama, politics, powers, presidents, Walter Wink |
2 comments  Email This Post |  Trackback URL |  Print This Post On MLK day I have adopted the practice of posting excerpts and full text from some of King’s lesser-known speeches to try to recapture the radicalism he represents in the face of his domestication at the hands of American elites and authorities. This year, I’m going to do something different. Chris Hedges has written an [...] Thanks to Michael Iafrate, at Catholic Anarchy, for pointing me to this quote from Dorothy Day: “The word anarchist is deliberately and repeatedly used in order to awaken our readers to the necessity of combating the ‘all-encroaching state,’ as our Bishops have termed it, and to shock serious students into looking into the possibility [...] “Interpretive community” is a key concept in Stanley Fish’s writings on interpretation and criticism of texts. The concept of interpretive community is a strategy to engage the dilemma of interpretation in which the roles of “text” and “reader” struggle for the power to determine meaning. Faced with the reality that there are often as many [...] Tonight my wife and I went to see Avatar. I’m a bit of a film geek, though we hadn’t seen a movie in the cinema for quite some time (I think the last one we saw was Bolt). Because it had been so long, I didn’t feel bad about spending the extra money on the [...] Thanks so much to all of you who have responded to our needs after the fire, either in comments, emails, or other ways. As part of beginning to get back into the swing of some kind of normal life, I am now going to begin writing articles for the blog as I had been before. [...] Dear friends, The question in the subject line is one we have been asked by dozens, possibly even hundreds of people in the past week and a half. Y’all have been so compassionate towards us, and so eager to help us start rebuilding after the fire that we’ve honestly been overwhelmed at times by your goodness. [...] I’ve been told a very small number of people are having trouble with the PayPal link. If you are having trouble, let me know and we will find an alternative way to contribute. Also, while PayPal is great for making donations online via debit/credit card and electronic transfer, if you’re willing to mail a check to [...] |
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