September 2009

See Beck dodge…

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 25 September 2009

Glen Beck refuses to answer what the “white culture” is that Obama apparently hates.

In reaction to Obama’s comments that the white police officer who had arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. had acted “stupidly,” Glenn Beck stated that Obama has a “deep-seated hatred for white culture“–an accusation that (unsurprisingly) went unchallenged and unexamined by [...]

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Race, Racism and the Nation-State

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 22 September 2009

Recently, I reflected on the connection between race, racism and the nation state and the ways in which it has deepened my understanding of anarchism and anti-racism for an essay in Religious Anarchisms: New Perspectives. There I argue that critiquing and challenging state power demands that we confront and dismantle racism and the false racial [...]

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Violence, Patriarchy and Nonhuman Animal "Research"

by Andy Alexis-Baker 18 September 2009

In recent news, a man was arrested for murdering a Yale graduate student in an animal research laboratory at Yale University. At this animal “research” lab the students, professors and technicians engaged in the following kinds of projects:
At Yale University, the IACUC permitted psychiatry professor Marina Picciotto to measure despair in mice by forcing them [...]

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What we Deserve?

by JoshuaDbauIII 15 September 2009

I read a curious blog this morning, about the United States of America. The article asks, “Is America at a Dangerous Tipping Point for Receiving God’s Judgment?” Much of what the article says I actually am sympathetic toward, especially the bit about materialism and the corruption of the powerful, but why would [...]

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Remembering rightly

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 13 September 2009

The anniversary of September 11, 2001 in the U.S. represents many things to many people. When I do reflect on it, as I am now, it calls to mind a montage of images from my time in the city both during and after that memorialized day. My computer screen with instant messages from friends living [...]

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Tables scraps or the One Whole Loaf

by Loren McGrail 7 September 2009

Editor’s Note: In the first half of 2009, almost 1.9 million foreclosure filings have been reported. Millions more are at least one month behind on their home payments. If foreclosures continue at current rates, over 9 million homes will enter foreclosure by 2012. While there are some indications of an economic rebound, with unemployment [...]

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The Health Care Question

by Administrator 7 September 2009

Health care. No other two words have stirred up so many emotions as these lately. Some say health care is a right; others say it’s only a privilege. Some believe that there should be a government-run “public option”; others say it will only expand government control. But where should we, as Christians, [...]

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Islam: A 30,000 foot overview

by Administrator 7 September 2009

Recently, I launched our discussion on Islam with a challenge for Christians to fast and pray and engage with their communities alongside their Muslim neighbors. Today I’ll step backward a little and attempt to give a brief overview of Islam itself, who modern Muslims are, and why the terms are less homogeneous than many realize.
Islam [...]

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Book Review: Living on Hope While Living in Babylon

by Andy Alexis-Baker 4 September 2009

York, Tripp. Living on Hope While Living in Babylon: The Christian Anarchists of the Twentieth Century. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009.
Reviewed by Andy Alexis-Baker
In this book, Tripp York tells the life stories of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, Clarence Jordan, and the Berrigan brothers with wit and engaging prose. With these brief biographical accounts, [...]

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