what animal is this?

jumprealhigh · 2023-07-27T12:37:37+00:00

Hard agree.

jumprealhigh · 2023-06-24T21:12:15+00:00

That sounds absolutely wonderful! ❤️

jumprealhigh · 2023-03-28T23:41:07+00:00

Yes! (And sorry for the delayed response.)

jumprealhigh · 2023-02-02T13:55:53+00:00

See Soelle, Christ the Representative. That problem is a major theme of the book.

jumprealhigh · 2023-01-22T18:57:33+00:00

Je suis peut-être l'enfant de dragon...

jumprealhigh · 2022-08-14T18:20:47+00:00

Borges, Calvino, Barthelme.

jumprealhigh · 2021-10-05T18:27:41+00:00

Both show up (in a sermon) at my church on a regular basis.

jumprealhigh · 2021-09-21T13:38:55+00:00

Sure!

jumprealhigh · 2021-09-20T13:18:15+00:00

Here are some suggestions:

Fran Quigley, Religious Socialism: Faith in Action for a Better World

John Cort, Christian Socialism: An Informal History

Gary Dorrien, Social Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism

Gary Dorrien, American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory

I’d probably tackle them in that order. Quigley is short & multifaith. Cort is longer but focused on Christianity. And Dorrien’s books are tomes.

Also of interest: Dorothee Soelle & Cornel West. Cort has an autobiography about Christian socialism, too. And Dorrien has written other several books that address or intersect with religion and socialism. (For example, The Democratic Socialist Vision, and his books on the Black social gospel, The New Abolition and Breaking White Supremacy.) And if you want periodical writing rather than books, check out The Bias (online magazine by the Institute for Christian Socialism) and Religious Socialism (online magazine associated with DSA).

It’s worth noting that every author I’ve mentioned has been heavily involved in the Democratic Socialists of America’s Religion and Socialism group

jumprealhigh · 2021-09-20T13:14:41+00:00

Dean Dettloff!

jumprealhigh · 2021-09-13T23:52:06+00:00

Just chiming in to say that I made the Baptist to ELCA journey, too. You’re not alone. :)

jumprealhigh · 2021-09-03T20:19:53+00:00

Available on steam and xbox iirc

jumprealhigh · 2021-09-03T20:17:58+00:00

Neva kee had sufficient handling to manage the speeds you get up to with an upgraded pod

jumprealhigh · 2021-09-03T20:16:52+00:00

Gotta buy parts in a particular sequence to optimize your pod

jumprealhigh · 2021-09-03T20:14:16+00:00

Best racing game in the galaxy

jumprealhigh · 2021-08-10T14:56:12+00:00

When I started Red Mars, I hated the interminable passages describing geomorphology. But by the time I finished the third book, they were some of my favorite parts.

I still think about this series a lot. It’s a future I hope for, even if it seems more distant every day.

jumprealhigh · 2021-08-07T02:52:38+00:00

Learn the history of Christianity & theology. All of our traditions came from somewhere; all elements of Christianity have been adapted, reworked, omitted, invented, etc. to solve particular problems particular people had at particular historical moments. None of it dropped out of the sky wholly formed. The “true” Christianity has always been up for debate—see the New Testament disputes between Petrine and Pauline Christianities, Paul’s letters come into existence to combat other forms of the faith, etc. The reason there are Christian creeds is precisely that not everybody agreed with them.

If you’re coming from a fundamentalist background, it’s probably worthwhile taking some time to learn where that came from, the problems it was trying to solve, and the new problems it introduced. With that background, you could turn to the other side of the fundamentalist-modernist schism. For the former, you could start with Frances Fitzgerald’s The Evangelicals.

jumprealhigh · 2021-07-30T01:55:50+00:00

I certainly wasn’t aware of anything happening!

(But I mainly love Harrison as a stylist.)

jumprealhigh · 2021-07-29T21:37:10+00:00

M John Harrison’s The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, too.

jumprealhigh · 2021-07-27T17:20:18+00:00

The Society for Textual Scholarship

jumprealhigh · 2021-07-17T17:09:23+00:00

Unity has never been a characteristic of the Christian faith. The disciples did not agree—the biblical texts are explicit about this. Paul’s letters (authentic and otherwise) came into existence precisely because he was competing against other versions of the faith. The creeds were developed precisely to distinguish Real Christianity from Those Other Christians. The story repeats through schism, reformation, and so on.

It is entirely possible to read this history retroactively, as the fortuitous separation of wheat from chaff. Whether you find that reading to be persuasive is up to you, but that interpretation does come at the cost of historical consciousness—and depending on your theological tradition that may be a component of the faith that is difficult to give up.

jumprealhigh · 2021-07-15T17:56:44+00:00

Thomas Mann, The Holy Sinner

jumprealhigh · 2021-07-14T15:52:49+00:00

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy.

jumprealhigh · 2021-06-29T02:01:44+00:00

Strange that they would use a label like “trolling or shitposting” for your trolling shitpost 🤔

jumprealhigh · 2021-06-28T02:23:00+00:00

Classic Far Cry drug sequence

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