Logan W Robertson

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Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:59:24 -0600

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"Nevertheless, the question still remains as to what continuity there may be to human experience..."

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:33:00 -0600

“Nevertheless, the question still remains as to what continuity there may be to human experience which lies outside of the social identities imposed by various projects of cultural hegemony. The best answer possible is that in any society where power and prestige are distributed unequally, those defined as less worthy of power and prestige will always experience this cultural valuation as oppressive.”

- Sheila Briggs, “The Politics of Identity and the Politics of Interpretation.”

"What is perceived to be ‘in the text’ is a function of interpretive activities."

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:40:10 -0600

“What is perceived to be ‘in the text’ is a function of interpretive activities.”

- -Stanley Fish, Is There a Text In This Class?

I would add, “in the world.”

Digging in.

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:46:09 -0600

Digging in.

Capitalism

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:51:32 -0600

Capitalism

"Beck has misread Cone. Black theology continually talks about the way in which God not only..."

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:17:11 -0600

“Beck has misread Cone. Black theology continually talks about the way in which God not only identifies with oppressed people, but also empowers them for liberation. In black theology Jesus conquers, not from a position of power and privilege, but from the cross, among the last and the least. This is good news that speaks hope to people hanging on lynching trees, strapped to torture tables, or beaten and abused in their own homes. Beginning from the bottom, it includes everyone.”

- Glen Beck’s Cheap Grace — Karyn Carlo

Jay Smooth on how to tell someone they sound racist. One of my...

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:16:00 -0600

Jay Smooth on how to tell someone they sound racist. One of my favorite people on the internet.

"Jazz is not just ‘Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.’ It’s a very..."

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:15:17 -0600

“Jazz is not just ‘Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.’ It’s a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.”

- Wynton Marsalis on ~~spirituality~~ jazz.

"They sing a hymn antiphonally to Christ as God"

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:06:55 -0600

"They sing a hymn antiphonally to Christ as God":

swad:

A fascinating essay on Pliny the Younger, who observed the destruction of Pompeii and is one of the first writers to mention a then-strange sect of Romans who were called “Christians.”

Gospel of Matthew, chapter X. If you’re a Christian do...

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:07:31 -0600

Gospel of Matthew, chapter X. If you’re a Christian do whatever you can to avoid reading the Bible.

"BJ Gallagher, a Huffington Post blogger who writes about spirituality … says there’s nothing..."

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:39:00 -0600

“BJ Gallagher, a Huffington Post blogger who writes about spirituality … says there’s nothing wrong with people blending insights from different faith traditions to create what she calls a ‘Burger King Spirituality – have it your way.’”

- SBNR, via Schott’s Vocab

To separate various spiritualities, once fully integrated into the meaning and logic of the traditions that gave birth to them, and equate them to pickles and lettuce is a perfect example of the force of capitalism on the minds and hearts of those coming of age at the dawn of the 21st century.

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Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:55:32 -0600

"Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has..."

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:36:56 -0600

“Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they still need to believe and yet still be able to think of themselves as Christians. I discovered, however, that I did not know enough about Christianity to know what I was disbelieving.”

- Stanley Hauerwas, The Surprise of Being a Christian

because we separate

Wed, 12 May 2010 20:32:00 -0600

because we separate

"When we pray in the Pslam, ‘O Lord, deliver us from fear of our enemies,’ it is not from our enemy..."

Wed, 05 May 2010 18:14:46 -0600

““When we pray in the Pslam, ‘O Lord, deliver us from fear of our enemies,’ it is not from our enemy that we are begging to be delivered, Dorothy pointed out, but from our own fear.””

- Kathleen De Sutter Jordan. “The Nonviolence of Dorothy Day.” From Christ to the World. 445.

Sincere Theater and No More Apologies

Wed, 05 May 2010 08:18:00 -0600

ON THE STAGE:

Ron Kirkland the classic hero. His refrain “gays were taken care of,” though he cannot describe the how or why. Tea Party “Activists“/Baggers/Bigots the faceless chorus, the mob. And we their audience, paid admission, paid attention, standing ovation but outraged. Outraged!

“He should apologize!” The cry of the critics. The uninvited audience, the “state gay rights group.” More theater please.

Time to stop patronizing these shows and asking for more. Calls for redemption, restitution, salvation, put things right please. You’ve fallen but if you would just apologize — sincerely please — we will forgive and help you up, like God. Like Jesus: He loves everyone.

Time to preform some drama of our own or abstain from the stage for awhile. At least until the muses or the Spirit grace us with their presence again.

The Profane Love of Christ

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:15:54 -0600

The following: M. Shawn Copeland thinking through Lonergan’s fivefold dynamics of Love, beginning in the light of the divine and moving through humanity into the diversity of our expressions of love. A meditation on the human love of the divine, Copeland writes, “As a human, Christ loves other human being with a human love. The love with which Christ loves us, Lonergan stresses,”

is the love of a human will, motivated by a human mind, operating through human senses, resonating through human emotions and feelings and sentiment, implemented by a human body with its structure of bones and muscles, flesh, its mobile features, its terrible capacities for pleasure and pain, for joy and sorrow, for rapture and agony.

The human body; flesh, sweat, hair, snot, shit and piss, but capable of love. Love transformed by love of God, the Christ, the creature/God who loved us unto death.

M. Shawn Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom, 103

"Ms. Gerwig, most likely without intending to be anything of the kind, may well be the definitive..."

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:02:09 -0600

“Ms. Gerwig, most likely without intending to be anything of the kind, may well be the definitive screen actress of her generation, a judgment I offer with all sincerity and a measure of ambivalence. She seems to be embarked on a project, however piecemeal and modestly scaled, of redefining just what it is we talk about when we talk about acting.”

- Indeed. Check out Greenberg. She really does shine, and so does Ben Stiller.

An Apophatic Meditation Via Twitter

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:03:44 -0600

ta da!

Daring Fireball iPad Review Roundup

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:54:49 -0600

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/31/ihnatko

In fact, after a week with the iPad, I’m suddenly wondering if any other company is as committed to invention as Apple. Has any other company ever demonstrated a restlessness to stray from the safe and proven, and actually invent things?

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/31/mossberg

After spending hours and hours with it, I believe this beautiful new touch-screen device from Apple has the potential to change portable computing profoundly, and to challenge the primacy of the laptop.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/31/pogue

Speaking of video: Apple asserts that the iPad runs 10 hours on a charge of its nonremovable battery — but we all know you can’t trust the manufacturer. And sure enough, in my own test, the iPad played movies continuously from 7:30 a.m. to 7:53 p.m. — more than 12 hours. That’s four times as long as a typical laptop or portable DVD player.

The first quote is not a big surprise. The second quote, well, we will have to wait and see. The third quote blows my mind.