The Engine Running on Victimization – Jonathan Foster
The Engine Running on Victimization
and some Girardian-inspired ways to change
The conservative Christians feel justified in their anger because they have bought into the idea that their way of life is under siege. With backs up against the wall (supposedly), they feel the panicked need to legitimize their importance, tighten boundaries, and generally increase their bizarre practice of claiming to be victims even as they victimize.
Meanwhile, the progressive Christians feel justified in their anger because they have bought into the idea that they are the true defender of victims. This justifies their canceling culture, legitimizes their importance, and generally increases the practice of “using” the victim for their benefit. Some days, one wonders whether the progressive really wants to eliminate all the victimizing ways; I mean, how would they operate in such an environment? How would they formulate an identity? What is a progressive without a victim?
The Influence of Tom Thompson, Emily Carr and the Group of Seven – Arnold Shives
Arnold Shives @ Cezanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire The Influence of Tom Thompson, Emily Carr and the Group of Seven My earliest “art” memories are of a pair of late nineteenth century oils on canvas, portraits with grey-brown backgrounds, that graced the wall of our...
A Sesquincentennial Message from Jean Vanier
Wayne Northey: This I can celebrate! Though he has lived in France for many years, and elsewhere in Europe before that, Jean Vanier remains as Canadian as delight at winter giving way to a new spring. His parents had a powerful impact on Canada’s emergence as a mature...
Columbus Day? Brian Zahnd
It’s Columbus Day in America. Sort of. While still a Federal holiday, less than half the states observe Columbus day. And in some states and in many cities today is observed as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Where Native Americans still have a fairly visible presence...
Postcards from Babylon – Brian Zahnd
At the end of Peter’s first epistle — a letter to believers living in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire — the apostle cryptically says, “She who is in Babylon greets you.” What does Peter mean by that enigmatic phrase? Why does Peter end his letter by...
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God – Brendan O’Connor
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God Brendan O’Connor Filed to: ANOINTED BY BIG OIL WN: The supreme haughty superiority of Christians who just know all the massive, irrefutable science about human-caused climate change — as...
The Fundamentalists Holding Us Back from a Climate Change Solution – Allie Conti
The Fundamentalists Holding Us Back from a Climate Change Solution The evangelical Christian movement has been at war with environmentalism for decades—but the stakes have never been higher. By ALLIE CONTI illustrated by LIA KANTROWITZ Aug 20 2017, 7:15pm WN:...
Jesus is Returning Soon. I mean it. – Fr Kenneth Tanner
Listen up. Jesus is returning soon. I mean it. He's coming back—right now—anywhere in the world the Lord's Supper or Communion or the Eucharist or the Divine Liturgy is celebrated...and that is happening almost constantly in all sorts of churches in all kinds...
Review of Ron Dart’s “The North American High Tory Tradition” – by Tyler Chamberlain
Book Review: Dart, Ron (2016). The North American High Tory Tradition. New York: American Anglican Press. The rise of Donald Trump has put thoughtful conservatives on both sides of the border in an awkward position. The time is ripe for sophisticated and...
Confession’s Crown – Poem by Jessica Knight
Confession’s Crown When you spoke of self-love I did not know what it meant. I’d caught only glimpses of this— and I’d resist. But a light had shimmered across the surface of my heart… Revealing that Love was real. It sparkled so beautifully— I longed...
Deuteronomy, Jewish Prophets and the Sermon on the Mount – Ron Dart
Deuteronomy, Jewish Prophets and the Sermon on the Mount: Moral Formulas, Comedy and Tragedy: Monophony of Polyphony? The Classical Hebrew canon...