The Archives
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empire, religion, UU, zizek
Therapy, Criticism, and Heresy—Which Is UU?
01.28.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI just finished up The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity by Slavoj Zizek, the so-called wildman of philosophy. And I keep going back to a passage on the very first page of the intro. In it, Zizek says that religion in our current day of global empire is limited to two […]
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industry, politics, religion, religion-industrial-complex
Introducing the “religion-industrial complex”
Writes Jacques Berlinerblau: “The 2008 presidential election is probably the first in American history that has spawned a veritable faith and politics industry.” We haven’t had one for a while?? I can see the complex part though. Ralph Reed has to have some trippy hang ups. But industry? It’s a far cry from the Model […]
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amoral, atheism, empire, religion, sharon-welch
Is religion amoral?
07.02.07 | Permalink | 9 CommentsBack to Sharon Welch in After Empire. An atheist, she writes: What, then, is the religious? This is the name we give to those encounters and energies that are constitutive but amoral, those encounters that are vivid, compelling, and meaningful, but fragile. (Page 30.) I’m still chewing on that.
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faith, false_dichotomy, organized-religion, religion, religion_and_spirituality, spirituality
Faith, organized religion, spirituality
07.01.07 | Permalink | 23 CommentsI want to thank Jaume for keeping the discussion about the New Atheists going on his blog. I want to keep the conversation going on my end, and I want to do that by talking about my own understanding of what faith, organized religion and spirituality are. I buy in to Paul Tillich’s understanding of […]
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irreligion, religion, unchurched, UU, uuism
Why the gods are not winning #3: Questions for UUs
06.05.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments[Parts one and two.] Say what you will about the irreligious, but they’re not us UUs. We’ve got atheists and agnostics to be sure, they aren’t irreligious. Otherwise they wouldn’t come to worship or sign the membership book. Or perhaps we’re looking at the religious irreligious? I don’t know. I hate to contribute to our […]
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alisdair-macintyre, emergent-church, mitt-romney, mormon, religion, sacred-story
Scribe Jamboree: 10/13/2006
10.13.06 | Permalink | 6 CommentsPosts this week from folks at The Daily Scribe: First, a stunner: Scribe CEO Shawn Anthony of Lo-Fi Tribe is leaving the Unitarian Universalist ordination track to return to Christianity. CK at Arbitrary Marks reminds us that sacred stories have costs too, not just benefits. The Journey sends us to a point-by-point call to order […]
