Sep 23, 2022“A sort of Christofascistic Religion” Dorothee Soelle’s Foreword to Beyond Mere Obedience…“A sort of Christofascistic Religion” Dorothee Soelle’s Foreword to Beyond Mere Obedience (1982)/Creative Disobedience (1990) If you like this, please clap/share/subscribe, find me on instagram and/or youtube. You can financially support on venmo or paypal. As far as I am aware, there are two places Dorothee Sölle makes explicit reference…Christian Nationalism15 min readChristian Nationalism15 min read
Sep 22, 2022Christofascism by Dorothee SölleIf you like this, please clap, highlight, share, subscribe, find me on instagram and/or youtube (where there is a clip of this as audio). You can send me a monetary tip on venmo or paypal. This essay appears in the third part of the difficult-to-find out-of-print book The Window of…Christian Nationalism14 min readChristian Nationalism14 min read
Apr 26, 2022James Baldwin On Finding A HomeThe following is correspondence between some good friends Sol Stein and James Baldwin that I discovered via an article at lithub.com by Hilal Isler. …James Baldwin4 min readJames Baldwin4 min read
Apr 26, 2022A Book by Raymond Lefebvre “The Sacrifice of Abraham” Reviewed by Romain RollandA Book by Raymond Lefebvre “The Sacrifice of Abraham” Reviewed by Romain Rolland I was trying to uncover the first uses of Antonio Gramsci’s phrase “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” and several scholars point out that Romain Rolland used it before him and point to this article…Gramsci6 min readGramsci6 min read
Feb 13, 2022Hey Skillet, We Need to Value Truth Over FeelingJohn Cooper from the band Skillet has recently declared war on “deconstruction.” But this is not new. …Deconstruction10 min readDeconstruction10 min read
Jul 5, 2021Deconstruction is Another Word for Repentance Part 1In the past 5 years or so a word has entered the vocabulary of many former and current Conservative Christians in the US: Deconstruction. Deconstruction is a new word for an old idea of taking apart unexamined beliefs (often beliefs which built the structures of our lives) and often doing…Deconstruction8 min readDeconstruction8 min read
Jul 4, 2021An Abridged Version of “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” -Frederick Douglass, 1852.An abridged version of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” given in 1852 to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, NY: The 4th of July. It is the birthday of your National Independence…your political freedom. I am glad, fellow-citizens, that your nation is so young…There…Frederick Douglass7 min readFrederick Douglass7 min read
Jun 10, 2021My Story: From Anti-LGBTQ Christianity to “A More Excellent Way” (1 Cor. 12:31)Last weekend I participated in a protest and passed this out to people I had conversations with: — — — — — — — — — — — - My name is Taylor. I’m prompted to write this because Calvary Chapel San Jose is hosting Tony Perkins, president of the…LGBTQ6 min readLGBTQ6 min read
Jan 25, 2021Short Reviews of Eight (+2) Books on the Social History of US Conservative ChristianityIn this article I try to give brief, accessible reviews of the eight above-pictured books, (two more added after I made the picture above). Underneath each of the pictures, I have provided links to the authors giving presentations related to their books. …Intellectual History13 min readIntellectual History13 min read
Jan 18, 2021The Modern Departure From (Towards?) ChristianityIn the 4th century after Christ, sometime between the emperors Constantine and Theodosius, the Church became mixed up between the Hebrew idea of God and the temporarily powerful Roman Empire. Christianity was a revolutionary Hebrew prophetic movement in the first century saying, like generations of Hebrew prophets before them, that…Christianity7 min readChristianity7 min read
