On the Record: MLK

Another quote from the ineffable department:

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

- Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Dec. 11, 1964.

On the Record: Augustine

We are talking about God. What wonder is it that you do not understand? If you do understand, then it is not God.

- St. Augustine

Slow Blogging Ahead

In case you haven’t already noticed the blogging has slowed down considerably. The election wore me out and I have a lot on my plate. I will try to keep updates on my life and major thoughts here. I will be shifting more of my attention to that other blogging project What Would Jesus Eat? I’ll be doing a lot more blogging through the Bible with an eye towards food and journaling my year at the World Hunger Farm starting in May 2009.

I’ll be a stay-at-home dad from January to May. Not sure what that means for my blogging, but I will probably be able to find some time since I will be done with school. So, if you haven’t subscribed to the WWJE feed please do. Otherwise, I’ll see you when I do.

On the Record: Justo Gonzalez

The question is not whether there will be a multicultural church. Rather, the question is whether those who have become accustomed to seeing the gospel expressed only or primarily in terms of those dominant cultures will be able to participate in the life of the multicultural church that is already a reality.

Justo Gonzalez, For the Healing of the Nations, 1999, p. 91.

Keeping Tabs on the Bailout

This is why I love the interwebs. Someone (Chris Carey) has put together a site that is tracking the money being given out from the recent bailout package. It tells you who is getting the money and what the terms are. Or showing you the blacked out contracts that tell you nothing. Hmmmm… Great way to see what’s really happening with all that money. Lord knows the government isn’t going to hold a press conference giving out those details.

Just because…

this cracked me up. Bob Carlton shared a shirt he saw in South Austin. Hehehe!

On the Record: Paul Farmer

But [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We do not believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separates us from roaches.

-Dr. Paul Farmer, as quoted by Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man would cure the world (2004), 40. via mereHope

Praying to the Bull (Market)

It’s scary when “secular” people get our faith more right than we do. Wonkette operative “Dan the Man” nailed it as he described a group that declared October 30th a “Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies.” Seems pretty innocuous and even a good idea really. Until the person in charge explains…

“We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the ‘Lion’s Market,’ or God’s control over the economic systems.”

Wonkette rightly points out the connection to Exodus 32. Ouch! Zing!

On the Record: Justice

Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. - Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no justice we don’t make daily like bread and love. - Marge Piercy from her poem “The Ram’s Horn Sounding.”

You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you won’t serve the people. - Cornel West

via God’s Politics Blog

Bottom Up Conference on Global Poverty

I am attending Baylor University’s Bottom Up Conference on Global Poverty today. Tweets will be labelled #bupoverty08 on twitter. Ruth Padilla Deborst was this morning. About to go to session on Water rights and issues at 10:30am. This afternoon will be at session on agriculture 1:30pm.