Saturday, December 28, 2019
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Kaushiki Chakrabarty - A devotional bhajan in raga Bhairavi
Kaushiki Chakrabarty - A devotional bhajan in raga Bhairavi
MERU Concert live - A soulful devotional bhajan in raga Bhairavi performed by Kaushiki Chakrabarty with Soumik Datta on Sarod and Pt. Vijay Ghate on tabla; Paromita Mukherji on harmonium and Allarakha Yaminkhan on sarangi - 21 July 2013 at Oranjerie Theater in Roermond, The Netherlands.
Kaushiki Chakrabarty - A devotional bhajan in raga Bhairavi
Kaushiki Chakrabarty - A devotional bhajan in raga Bhairavi
MERU Concert live - A soulful devotional bhajan in raga Bhairavi performed by Kaushiki Chakrabarty with Soumik Datta on Sarod and Pt. Vijay Ghate on tabla; Paromita Mukherji on harmonium and Allarakha Yaminkhan on sarangi - 21 July 2013 at Oranjerie Theater in Roermond, The Netherlands.
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
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Britain’s eagerness... to expand its airports, and to search for new oil and gas in the North Sea is absurd "You don’t listen to the science because you are only interested in solutions that will enable you to carry on like before"
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Werner Bischof, The art of bonsai, 1951
Britain’s eagerness... to expand its airports, and to search for new oil and gas in the North Sea is absurd "You don’t listen to the science because you are only interested in solutions that will enable you to carry on like before"
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A quack doctor selling remedies from his caravan; satirizing, by Tom Merry, 1889
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The Vikings seize York
The Vikings originally left Scandinavia due to overcrowding, but later on perceived the English to be weak. Viking chieftains thought they had as much right to rule as the Anglo-Saxons and the Viking presence in Yorkshire reached a crucial stage when a heathen force that had been bought-off in the south made its way north.
It arrived in York on 1 November AD 866 and captured the city in March of the following year. A Northumbrian relief army was no match for the Vikings, who were now permanently settled in the country as the new masters.
They built a large community within the old Roman walls of York and would eventually occupy the surrounding countryside and farm the land.
The Danes, Northmen, or Vikings were never at peace and depended wholly on war and plunder, visiting every part of the island with fire and sword. The nightmare facing the country was summed up by one author when he wrote,
The miseries and horrors, which the English or Saxons brought upon the British, these the Danes now brought in threefold upon the English. The same terrible sights that had burst upon the panic-stricken eyes of the British, three hundred years before, now amazed the English.The same line of blazing homesteads and corn-ricks against the midnight sky, the same slaughter of priests, women and infants.”
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Tibetan monks throat-singing - Specialized form of chanting
Tibetan monks throat-singing - Specialized form of chanting
Tibetan temple music is particularly renowned in the west for its two forms of multiphonic singing known as jok-kay (low tone) and bar-da (high tone). In both forms, each of the main chantmasters simultaneously intones three notes, thus each individually creating a complete chord. The Tibetans are one of the only cultures on earth that cultivate this most extraordinary vocal ability. This tradition is also known as "overtone singing" because it is accomplished by learning to control the muscles of the vocal cavity and then re-shaping it while singing, thus intensifying the natural overtones of the voice. In effect, the body is transformed into an effective overtone amplifier.
One night in 1433, the Tibetan lama Je Tzong Sherab Senge awoke from a startling dream. In it he had heard a voice unlike any voice that had ever sounded on the planet. It was a low voice, unbelievably deep, sounding more like the growl of a wild bull than anything human. Combined with this first voice, there was a second. This voice was high and pure, like the sound of a child singing. These two voices, so totally different, had come from the same source and that source was Je Tzong Sherab Senge himself.
In this dream, Je Tzong Sherab Senge had been instructed to take this special voice and use it for a new chanting style that would embody both the masculine and feminine aspects of divine energy. It was a tantric voice, a sound that could unite those chanting it in a web of universal consciousness.The next morning, Je Tzong Sherab Senge began to chant his daily prayers. The sounds that came out of him were the sounds he had heard in his dream — unearthly sounds, tantric sounds — and he gathered his fellow monks together to tell them of his dream.
That year, more than 500 years ago, the Gyume Tantric Monastery began in Lhasa , Tibet . The monks of this monastery learned to chant in the same voice which Je Tzong Sherab Senge had heard in his dream. It was a voice that enabled each monk to chant three notes at the same time, creating 'One Voice Chords'. Within that same century, another monastery in Lhasa , the Gyuto Tantric College , was founded. The monks at this fellow Tantric College also incorporated this chanting technique in their sacred rituals.
For centuries the magical sounds and rituals of Tibet lay enshrouded in the mysteries of a country refusing communication with the outside world. Stories of this unearthly chanting would filter back to the 'civilized' world along with tales of seemingly superhuman abilities which the Tibetan monks were said to possess, but these seemed to be nothing more than myth. In 1950 China invaded Tibet. Certain monks escaped to India, where they continued their tantric rituals. Their spiritual activities remained esoteric, but certain teachers of religion and ethnomusicology were finding their tantric rituals somewhat more accessible. These scientists and scholars would come back to the West with reports of a remarkable chanting technique utilized by the Gyume and Gyuto monks.
In Tibetan tantric chanting the goal of the chanting is to invoke and then unite with a particular deity or being. The monks literally become the gods and goddesses to whom they are praying. It may be that the overtones which are pronounced by the different Tantric Colleges are specific invocations to particular entities.
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Chants - The Spirit of Tibet is the stunning new album from The Gyuto Monks of Tibet, due for release on the 8th July. It was recorded at their monastery in Dharamsala, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where they live in exile with the Dalai Lama. Produced by Youth (who famously produced Dido, The Verve and U2) the album combines the Gyuto Monks' distinctive chanting and the finest Tibetan musicians and is the perfect album to transport you to another world of tranquillity, peace and calm.
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Their story of survival. The sound of hope
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Experience the Spirit of Tibet
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The new album from The Gyuto Monks of Tibet
Monday, December 23, 2019
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, during a massive fire
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, during a massive fire
Flames and smoke billow around the gargoyles decorating the roof and sides of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, during a massive fire on April 15, 2019.
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Sunday, December 22, 2019
Jim Wallis > Quotes
Jim Wallis a globally respected writer, teacher, preacher, and justice advocate who believes the gospel of Jesus must be transformed from its cultural and political captivities. He is a New York Times bestselling author, widely recognized public theologian, renowned speaker, and regular international commentator on ethics and public life. He is the Founder, President, and Editor-In-Chief of Sojourners, and is the author of 12 books, including American’s Original Sin, God’s Politics, The Great Awakening, and The Call to Conversion. He served on President Obama's White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and has taught faith and public life courses at Harvard and Georgetown University. “Coach Jim” also served for 22 seasons as a Little League coach for his two baseball playing sons.
Jim Wallis > Quotes
Jim Wallis quotes Showing 1-30 of 71
“Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.”
― Jim Wallis
“Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.”
― Jim Wallis, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America
tags: religion, secularism
“The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.”
― Jim Wallis
“Let nobody give you the impression that the problem of racial injustice will work itself out. Let nobody give you the impression that only time will solve the problem. That is a myth, and it is a myth because time is neutral. It can be used either constructively or destructively. And I’m absolutely convinced that the people of ill will in our nation—the extreme rightists—the forces committed to negative ends—have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation, not merely for the vitriolic works and violent actions of the bad people who bomb a church in Birmingham, Alabama, or shoot down a civil rights worker in Selma, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, “Wait on time.” Somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals. Without this hard work, time becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always right to do right.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“It just doesn’t make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies “out there” with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is “in here” with us—embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
tags: inspirational, political-philosophy
“Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.”
― Jim Wallis
tags: christian, christian-living, christianity, political, politics, social-change, spirituality
“You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.”
― Jim Wallis
tags: change, debate, politics, society, transform
“Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
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― Jim Wallis
“Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal.”
― Jim Wallis
“Faith reminds us that change is always possible.”
― Jim Wallis
tags: christian, christian-living, christianity, faith, politics, social-change
“As Martin Luther King Jr. said in his “I Have a Dream” speech, whose fiftieth anniversary has now passed, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”1 King’s dream failed that night in Florida when Zimmerman decided to follow Martin because of the color of his skin.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“Most Americans believe that if you work hard and full-time, you should not be poor. But the truth is that many working families are, and many low-income breadwinners must hold down multiple jobs just to survive.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“Jesus proclaimed, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matt. 5:9). Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us, “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”46”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“No historic presidential election, no athlete or entertainer’s success, no silent tolerance of one another is enough to create the truth and reconciliation needed to eliminate racial inequality or the presumption of guilt. We’re going to have to collectively acknowledge our failures at dealing with racial bias. People of faith are going to have to raise their voices and take action. Reading this extraordinary new work by Jim Wallis is a very good place to start.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“The former South African archbishop Desmond Tutu used to famously say, “We are prisoners of hope.” Such a statement might be taken as merely rhetorical or even eccentric if you hadn’t seen Bishop Tutu stare down the notorious South African Security Police when they broke into the Cathedral of St. George’s during his sermon at an ecumenical service. I was there and have preached about the dramatic story of his response more times than I can count. The incident taught me more about the power of hope than any other moment of my life. Desmond Tutu stopped preaching and just looked at the intruders as they lined the walls of his cathedral, wielding writing pads and tape recorders to record whatever he said and thereby threatening him with consequences for any bold prophetic utterances. They had already arrested Tutu and other church leaders just a few weeks before and kept them in jail for several days to make both a statement and a point: Religious leaders who take on leadership roles in the struggle against apartheid will be treated like any other opponents of the Pretoria regime. After meeting their eyes with his in a steely gaze, the church leader acknowledged their power (“You are powerful, very powerful”) but reminded them that he served a higher power greater than their political authority (“But I serve a God who cannot be mocked!”). Then, in the most extraordinary challenge to political tyranny I have ever witnessed, Archbishop Desmond Tutu told the representatives of South African apartheid, “Since you have already lost, I invite you today to come and join the winning side!” He said it with a smile on his face and enticing warmth in his invitation, but with a clarity and a boldness that took everyone’s breath away. The congregation’s response was electric. The crowd was literally transformed by the bishop’s challenge to power. From a cowering fear of the heavily armed security forces that surrounded the cathedral and greatly outnumbered the band of worshipers, we literally leaped to our feet, shouted the praises of God and began…dancing. (What is it about dancing that enacts and embodies the spirit of hope?) We danced out of the cathedral to meet the awaiting police and military forces of apartheid who hardly expected a confrontation with dancing worshipers. Not knowing what else to do, they backed up to provide the space for the people of faith to dance for freedom in the streets of South Africa.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“Christ instructs us to love our enemies, which does not mean a submission to their hostile agendas or domination, but does mean treating them as human beings also created in the image of God and respecting their human rights as adversaries and even as prisoners.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“A budget is a moral document.”
― Jim Wallis
“The white pastors who opposed the civil rights movement, and even those who ignored it, were indeed disobeying Paul’s theological proclamation that, in Christ, there is no Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female; but all are one in Christ Jesus.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“For a very long time, white evangelicalism has been simply wrong on the issue of race. Indeed, conservative white Christians have served as a bastion of racial segregation and a bulwark against racial justice efforts for decades, in the South and throughout the country. During the civil rights struggle, the vast majority of white evangelicals and their churches were on the wrong side—the wrong side of the truth, the Bible, and the gospel.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“But no matter where you go as a white person in American society, no matter where you live, no matter who your friends and allies are, and no matter what you do to help overcome racism, you can never escape white privilege in America if you are white.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“As I have talked with black friends about this book, especially with black parents, the line that has elicited the most response is this one: “If white Christians acted more Christian than white, black parents would have less to fear for their children.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“Cynicism really comes out of despair, but the antidote to cynicism is not optimism but action.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“Couldn’t both pro-life and pro-choice political leaders agree to common ground actions that would actually reduce the abortion rate, rather than continue to use abortion mostly as a political symbol?”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“Republican strategist Peter Wehner says, “Trumpism is not a political philosophy; it is a purposeful effort, led by a demagogue, to incite ugly passions, stoke resentments and divisions, and create fear of those who are not like ‘us’—Mexicans, Muslims, and Syrian refugees. But it will not end there. There will always be fresh targets.” Conservative evangelical Wehner contrasts that with the principles of Jesus, saying, “[A] carpenter from Nazareth offered a very different philosophy. When you see a wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, Jesus taught, you should not pass him by. ‘Truly I say to you,’ he said in Matthew, ‘to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even the least of them, you did it to me.’ . . . At its core, Christianity teaches that everyone, no matter at what station or in what season in life, has inherent dignity and worth.”15 Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter and top policy adviser to George W. Bush, and an originator of “compassionate conservatism,” says, [O]ur faith involves a common belief with unavoidably public consequences: Christians are to love their neighbor, and everyone is their neighbor. All the appearances of difference—in race, ethnicity, nationality and accomplishment”
― Jim Wallis, Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus
“The story about race that was embedded into America at the founding of our nation was a lie; it is time to change that story and discover a new one.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“The religious Right went wrong by forgetting its religious and moral roots and going for political power; the civil rights movement was proven right in operating out of its spiritual strength and letting its political influence flow from its moral influence.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“In one of his most famous quotations, King sadly said, “I am [ashamed] and appalled that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in Christian America.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“If evil in this world is deeply human and very real, and religious people believe it is, it just doesn’t make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies “out there” with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is “in here” with us—embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“As Nicholas Kristof wrote, “The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them. Too many whites unquestioningly accept a system that disproportionately punishes blacks. . . . We are not racists, but we accept a system that acts in racist ways.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“Racism is rooted in sin—or evil, as nonreligious people might prefer—which goes deeper than politics, pointing fingers, partisan maneuvers, blaming, or name calling. We can get to a better place only if we go to that morally deeper place. There will be no superficial or merely political overcoming of our racial sins—that will take a spiritual and moral transformation as well. Sin must be named, exposed, and understood before it can be repented of.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Jim Wallis quotes Showing 31-60 of 71
“Conventional wisdom suggests that the antidote to religious fundamentalism is more secularism. But that is a very big mistake. The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“you have substituted your nation and your army for God, your faith is more American than Christian, the Jesus you claim is not the Jesus of the New Testament and his kingdom will not be ushered in by the U.S. military.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“Involuntary servitude was banned by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, but nothing was done to confront the ideology of white supremacy. Slavery didn’t end in 1865; it just evolved.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“Whiteness is not just an ideology; it is also an idol. For people of faith, this is not just a political issue but a religious one as well. Idols separate us from God, and the idolatry of “whiteness” has separated white people from God. It gives us an identity that is false, one filled with wrongful pride, one that perpetuates both injustice and oppression. Whiteness is an idol of lies, arrogance, and violence. This idol blinds us to our true identity as the children of God, because, of course, God’s children are of every color that God has made them to be. To believe otherwise is to separate ourselves from God and the majority of God’s children on this planet who are people of color.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“For people of faith and conscience, these issues about implicit racial bias and the realities of white privilege in our society are not just political matters; they are moral and religious questions.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“Prejudice may indeed be a universal human sin that all races can exhibit, but racism is more than an inevitable consequence of human nature or social accident. Rather, racism is a system of oppression for social and economic purposes. As many analysts have suggested, racism is prejudice plus power.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“When religion is manipulated for political gain, faith loses its prophetic stance.”
― Jim Wallis, (Un)Common Good, The: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided
“How do we nurture both families and communities, promote a civil discourse, and approach problems with solutions and hope instead of fear and blame?”
― Jim Wallis, (Un)Common Good, The: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided
“the principle of always seeking an alternative applies to nonviolence as well. It is this: If nonviolence is to be credible, it must answer the questions that violence purports to answer, but in a better way.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“Sometimes in history the name of God has been invoked on behalf of actions and movements that have ennobled the human soul and lifted the body politic to a higher plane. Take the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and the American civil rights movement, or Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the struggle against South African apartheid, as examples. Other times religious fervor has been employed for the worst kinds of sectarian and violent purposes. The Ku Klux Klan, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and David Koresh's Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas, are frightening examples.
Is there a reliable guide to when we are really hearing the voice of God, or just a self-interested or even quite ungodly voice in the language of heaven? I think there is. Who speaks for God? When the voice of God is invoked on behalf of those who have no voice, it is time to listen. But when the name of God is used to benefit the interests of those who are speaking, it is time to be very careful.”
― Jim Wallis, Who Speaks for God?
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“the heart of the difference is that many white Americans tend to see unfortunate incidents based on individual circumstances, while most black Americans see systems in which their black lives matter less than white lives.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“Wealthy Christians talk about the poor but have no friends who are poor. So they merely speculate on the reasons for their condition, often placing the blame on the poor themselves.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“The sociology of many white communities shapes the theology of their churches, making them “conformed to the world” and disobedient to the gospel.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“The religious conviction that challenges us to see the image of God in every person is an absolute barrier to the practice of torture.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“In recent years, when conservative white Christians began to construct their political agendas, a recognition of racism’s reality was absent from the issues list of abortion, homosexuality, tax cuts for the middle class, and, yes, opposition to affirmative action.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“Our foreign policy has become an aggressive assertion of military superiority in a defensive and reactive mode, seeking to protect us against growing and invisible threats instead of addressing the root causes of those threats.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“As Jane Lampman, who wrote the Monitor article, put it, “The Gospel, some evangelicals are quick to point out, teaches that the line separating good and evil runs not between nations, but inside every human heart.”20”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“Being raised evangelical in the Midwest gave me a personal experience of the phenomenon called “religious fundamentalism.” A story illustrates. When I was a boy in high school, I was interested in a girl from our church. It was an evangelical church, although some might have called it a bit fundamentalist—taking a hard line on cultural issues. But I took a chance and invited her to a movie, which was certainly frowned upon back then in our church culture (though my own parents snuck us out to Walt Disney movies at the drive-in, where we were unlikely to be spotted). I chose The Sound of Music, thinking it was “safe.” Who could object to Julie Andrews, I confidently thought? I was wrong. As we left the house, my girlfriend’s father stood in the doorway, blocking our exit, and said to his daughter, “If you go to this film, you’ll be trampling on everything that we’ve taught you to believe.” She fled downstairs to her bedroom in tears. We missed the movie, and the evening was a disaster. A year later, the fundamentalist father watched The Sound of Music on his television—and liked it.
Fundamentalism is essentially a revolt against modernity. It is a reaction usually based on profound fear and defensiveness against “losing the faith.” My girlfriend’s father instinctively knew that his religion should make him different than the world. That is a fair religious point, and to be honest, there is much about modernity that deserves some revolting against. But I wish he had chosen to break with America at the point of its materialism, racism, poverty, or violence. Instead, he chose Julie Andrews.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“Things change when hearts and minds across the country change. Things change when social movements begin, when people’s understandings change, when families rethink their values, when congregations examine their faith, when communities get mobilized, and when nations are moved by moral contradictions and imperatives. Things change when people believe that more than politics is at stake; that human lives, human dignity, the well-being of moms and dads and kids, and even faith are at stake. And when the definitions of moral values change, culture changes, and eventually change comes to Washington, DC.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“Instead of imposing rigid pro-choice and pro-life political litmus tests, why not work together on teen pregnancy, adoption reform, and real alternatives for women backed into dangerous and lonely corners?”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“I have always learned the most about the world by going to places I was never supposed to be and being with people I was never supposed to meet.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
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“The heart of racism was and is economic, though its roots and results are also deeply cultural, psychological, sexual, religious, and, of course, political. Due to 246 years of brutal slavery and an additional 100 years of legal segregation and discrimination, no area of the relationship between black and white people in the United States is free from the legacy of racism.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“Living in faith is knowing that even though our little work, our little seed, our little brick, our little block may not make the whole thing, the whole thing exists in the mind of God, and that whether or not we are there to see the whole thing is not the most important matter. The most important thing is whether we have entered into the process.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“Significant numbers of American evangelicals reject the way some have distorted biblical passages as their rationale for uncritical support for every policy and action of the Israeli government instead of judging all actions—of both Israelis and Palestinians—on the basis of biblical standards of justice.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“A modern American prophet, like Micah, once said, “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is a nation approaching spiritual death.”3 He was Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., and he also made the connection between war and poverty.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“he doesn’t agree with the conventional wisdom that says, “The world changed on September 11.” Hauerwas says, “No, the world changed in 33 A.D. The question is how to narrate what happened on September 11 in light of what happened in 33 A.D.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“Fuzzy and ideological definitions of terrorism just make it easier to kill people. When you know your actions will kill innocent noncombatants, that’s terrorism. And it must be clearly named as unacceptable—no matter who does it (individuals, groups, or states), whatever the weapons, the expressed intentions, or political justifications.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“the peace movement sometimes does underestimate the problem of evil, and in doing so weakens its authority and its message.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“Obedience to the law, even unjust laws, had become one of the most egregious ways that ministers and their churches had become conformed to their culture.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“What would you do if you faced a candidate who took a traditional moral stance on the social and cultural issues? They would not be mean-spirited and, for example, blame gay people for the breakdown of the family, nor would they criminalize the choices of desperate women backed into difficult and dangerous corners. But the candidate would decidedly be pro-family, pro-life (meaning really want to lower the abortion rate), strong on personal responsibility and moral values, and outspoken against the moral pollution throughout popular culture that makes raising children in America a countercultural activity. And what if that candidate was also an economic populist, pro-poor in social policy, tough on corporate corruption and power, clear in supporting middle- and working-class families in health care and education, an environmentalist, and committed to a foreign policy that emphasized international law and multilateral cooperation over preemptive and unilateral war? What would you do?” I asked. He paused for a long time and then said, “We would panic!”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“I believe there is a “fourth option” for American politics, which follows from the prophetic religious tradition we have described. It is traditional or conservative on issues of family values, sexual integrity and personal responsibility, while being very progressive, populist, or even radical on issues like poverty and racial justice. It affirms good stewardship of the earth and its resources, supports gender equality, and is more internationally minded than nationalist—looking first to peacemaking and conflict resolution when it come to foreign policy questions.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.28”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/11501.Jim_Wallis?page=3
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“the peace movement sometimes does underestimate the problem of evil, and in doing so weakens its authority and its message.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“Obedience to the law, even unjust laws, had become one of the most egregious ways that ministers and their churches had become conformed to their culture.”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
“What would you do if you faced a candidate who took a traditional moral stance on the social and cultural issues? They would not be mean-spirited and, for example, blame gay people for the breakdown of the family, nor would they criminalize the choices of desperate women backed into difficult and dangerous corners. But the candidate would decidedly be pro-family, pro-life (meaning really want to lower the abortion rate), strong on personal responsibility and moral values, and outspoken against the moral pollution throughout popular culture that makes raising children in America a countercultural activity. And what if that candidate was also an economic populist, pro-poor in social policy, tough on corporate corruption and power, clear in supporting middle- and working-class families in health care and education, an environmentalist, and committed to a foreign policy that emphasized international law and multilateral cooperation over preemptive and unilateral war? What would you do?” I asked. He paused for a long time and then said, “We would panic!”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“I believe there is a “fourth option” for American politics, which follows from the prophetic religious tradition we have described. It is traditional or conservative on issues of family values, sexual integrity and personal responsibility, while being very progressive, populist, or even radical on issues like poverty and racial justice. It affirms good stewardship of the earth and its resources, supports gender equality, and is more internationally minded than nationalist—looking first to peacemaking and conflict resolution when it come to foreign policy questions.”
― Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
“But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.28”
― Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/11501.Jim_Wallis?page=3
Thursday, December 5, 2019
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