Micah Bales recently blogged about “Why The Church is Not And Will Not Be Revolutionary.” He writes: If Jesus isn’t a rebel, but rather the Authority, where does that leave us? We’re not radicals or dissidents. We’re loyalists. In the midst of a darkened and confused rebellion, we remember who the king is. The kingdom […]
For the sake of simplicity, I will focus on two poles of a larger divide within our contemporary religious culture on the issue of a biblical economic ethic. On the one side we have the “pro-capitalist” discourse that roots itself on a individualist interpretation of the seventh (or eighth) commandment “thou shalt not steal,” and […]
There’s an old left-wing quip that runs “if you aren’t an anarchist in your twenties, you have no heart, and if you aren’t a socialist in your thirties you have no brain.” A more well-known variant puts the terms “liberal” and conservative” in the opposed positions corresponding to immaturity and maturity. Unitarian minister and social […]
Agape as political love means that unconditional, egalitarian love for one’s neighbour can serve as the foundation for a new order. The form of appearance of this love is what we might also call the idea of communism: the urge to realise an egalitarian social order of solidarity. The only church that illuminates is a […]
20. Then [Jesus] fastened his eyes on his apprentices[1] and said to them: “The poor[2] today can be hopeful[3], because the fulfillment of divine[4] justice[5] is theirs. “You who are now hungering are to be hopeful, because you will be filled. “You who are now weeping can have hope, because one day you will laugh. […]
I am a Communist because it is the logical outcome of my childhood Pentecostal faith in Jesus. I am a Communist, because Jesus was a Communist. I am not a Christian, because Jesus was not a Christian. Jesus was a Jewish rabbi who mobilized a mass movement to usher in the Kingdom of Heaven on […]
Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat…. – The Communist Manifesto Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with worldly […]
Radical Righteous Love 