Denying the resurrection?

I found this a timely and inspiring reminder of why we're wrestling with issues of social justice and what it means to preach (and be) the good news.

Check it out...

PM: A tentative exercise in application

Here's some thoughts I've had about applying postmodern insights to our interaction with the Bible. These comments relate particularly to the antifoundational and demystifying attributes of PM as I've described them.

Response to the comment 'Aren't we already postmodern?'

This is a response to Stephen’s comment. I intended it to be another comment, but it got too long!...

Postmodernity and Christianity

This post introduces a new topic for discussion – Postmodernity and Christianity. I have tried to explain why I believe that engaging with a critique of our culture (whether late-modern or post-modern – or any other label you want to give it) is essential to gaining an understanding of our own views of the world as it is, and how it could be. I’m aware that it is a Herculean (perhaps Sisyphusian) labour to try to meaningfully think and write about a topic that is so nebulous, contentious and in flux. Also I know that even the vocabulary of post-modernism is (mis)heard very differently, particularly within the church – understood at once as something of a dirty word, and/or a shortcut for being ‘relevant’. Despite these pitfalls, I think the importance of informed, open discourse on this subject outweighs the dangers.

So below is a brief intro (as brief as I can manage) to situate this topic, and kick off some debate. If you’re up for wrestling this through, I look forward to your thoughts:

Insights on the financial crisis

In the run up to the announcement of the Government's spending review on Wednesday I thought I'd share these youtube clips. Click on this link for the first of five parts, then select the remaining four parts from the 'suggestions'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSDGDerFst4

They are from a lecture by Prof David Harvey from City University New York which summarises his new book 'The Enigma of Capital'. The book and lecture seek to explain the structural causes of the recent financial crisis and as such they are the clearest and most eloquent attempt I've come across. Prof Harvey applies a distinctly Marxian analysis to this topic and unlocks a lot of really serious structural questions that I think need to be confronted if we are serious about reimaging the economy in the image of God.

Check it out. Measure it against the plumb-line. I'll post about a couple of specifics shortly and will try to refrain from shouting viva la Revolution since I'm in the library!

Nathan