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there is much to like and perhaps to not like about the new pope there are many controversial decisions for whatever reasons his not wearing of fine vestments is one of them that he has made in his short papacy but i want to focus on the scandal of the idea that women can receive a sacrament meant only for men because the origin of the limitation here is built on a notion that i ve heard in hierarchical evangelical churches as well aka complementarians the idea that christ s apostles were men and only men therefore a sacred task washing the feet in catholic church tradition preaching in complementarian churches is open only to males no matter how socio economically open no matter how racially or ethnically diverse or even how ecumenical still one half of the world is denied something so holy but wouldn t this then limit also the taking of the host since the same foot washing apparently limited to only jesus male disciples was also the same event wherein they shared the last supper shouldn t only then males drink the blood and eat the body jesus encounters with the excluded whether they be blind bleeding roman centurions syro phoenician mothers tax collectors the physically handicapped the psychologically tortured demon possessed or the dreaded samaritans even samaritan females shows a different christian witness the witness of intentional inclusion in fact if the definition of apostle is one sent to give witness to the risen christ which we particularly remember today then the first apostles were women for they were the first to witness the empty tomb and the first to hear word of the risen christ and the first to spread the message the hopeful terrible message of the empty tomb and not dead jesus but i guess it should be noted that those same women were at first also dismissed by the male hierarchy of the original church as it were it seems that much of the christian church is stuck in a certain time the time after jesus had defeated death with its finalities and its exclusions but before the rest of the world discovers what impact this would have on them how his resurrection and kingdom life would negate the distinctions the world places between male and female greek and jew freeborn and slave for in the body of the risen christ is the body of all and the christian church should be a witness to that should be leaders setting a new example should be apostles of a new way of being written by jasdye at 8 23 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christianity easter holy week jesus sexism monday march 25 2013 there is no wasted bullet american christianity s god and terrorism this movie should disturb christian consciences mike kosper writing for the gospel coalition is right zero dark thirty a gritty controversial movie about the hunt for osama bin laden should disturb the christian conscience but not in the direction that kosper seems to be headed like most american christians like most people period kosper arrives at his ending under the prevailing assumption that violence is a necessary tool used to fight evil as most american christians presume he believes that god wills and desires violence and that jesus death on the cross was a satisfactory use of violence to quench god s thirst for violence a violence that otherwise would overtake the world in its wrath kosper lets filmmaker kathryn bigelow s statement that she is a pacifist stand without question and then he quotes and agrees with her refutation of that very claim bin laden wasn t defeated by superheroes zooming down from the sky he was defeated by ordinary americans who fought bravely even as they sometimes crossed moral lines who labored greatly and intently who gave all of themselves in both victory and defeat in life and in death for the defense of this nation this is not a statement of pacifism it is not a statement of someone who believes that war is an active and nihilistic participation in evil and unnecessary violence it is a statement of triumphalism of nationalism of agreement with those who gloat over the death of people a winning side a losing side and so the game continues rather than showing seal team six to be superhuman warriors surging with testosterone and screaming as they wreak havoc they re more like a work crew methodically operating a machinery of death that dismantles the compound and kills their targets with grim efficiency there is no wasted bullet no wasted energy or action it s well coordinated rational and absolutely deadly the quote here gruesome in itself even in its cold and methodical aims reminds me of calvinist theology a cornerstone of neo reformed the gospel coalition in fact the gospel itself is confused for calvinist theology in tgc so much so that those who do not agree with reformed theology are accused of being unorthodox heretics according to the reformed doctrine of limited atonement jesus blood on the cross was spilt for and only for those who would accept him for those predestined to be saved if jesus died for those who would never accept him his blood would have been wasted but this idea is built upon the theological presupposition that each person is evil to the core and that nobody is intrinsically worth saving it is a theology of violence on the other hand a more open ended view of jesus blood and salvation could lead one to believe that jesus blood was spilled not through the work of god but as a work of violence of the state itself the same state powers practiced to annihilate osama bin laden and kill children in his compound were the same forces used to kill jesus the same state powers used to dislocate dozens of thousands of black and brown school children in chicago the same state powers used to back up corporate and industrial wars of aggression throughout the world the same state powers that train fascist leaders and their henchmen in third world nations that have thrown dissenters in rapid rivers from helicopters that employ children as soldiers that kill our prophets the same state that overflows prisons and blames murder on bad people rather than the bad socio economic systems that it is designed to support the same state that says that drones are necessary because the other option is to put troops on the ground the same state that assumes that some have to starve for others to live plentifully yet the neo reformed movement with its intense focus on heavenly rewards and the futility of this life outside a very narrow structure focused on death also bears a striking resemblance to the the other side of the war on terror coin terrorism as a strategy can there be much more terrifying than that cruciform of neo reformed texts jonathan edwards sinners in the hands of an angry god a theology that has as its pretext the fact that god is angry and this angry god needed to kill and die in order to sate his anger which is still not satisfied is a theology wrapped in terror and fear it seems that american christians and particularly the neo reformed christians need to believe in an evil other need to believe in the holiness of violence need to find more and more sacrifices to their terrifying version of god and that s terrifying and torturous written by jasdye at 9 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels arabaphobia cross culture holy week jesus non violence redemptive violence myth theology war on terror saturday march 23 2013 and on an unrelated topic geeking out big freaking time gq what else can you tell me about the show the entire internet wants to know jason bateman the last line of the last episode of arrested development was ron howard saying to maeby she s pitching him a show about her family at imagine and he says to her no i don t see it as a series maybe a movie and then the screen goes black that s it so mitch hurwitz the show s creator was always planning on writing a movie every time he went to start a movie script there was so much work to be done just to fill the audience in on where the family had been since the end of the show and to also initiate the uninitiated about who these characters are so he thought the only way to tell a story of this size is to do the first act in episodes so it s really a hybrid distribution of one big story the episodes are simply act 1 and the movie will have act 2 and act 3 in it so one does not work without the other gq so there are stories in the episodes that won t resolve until the movie jason bateman there are many many questions that these episodes ask that only the movie will answer and there are many stories where the loop is closed inside the episodes but the overall story the bigger story once you see the movie you will see that oh this story started with those fourteen episodes because the action in these fourteen episodes happens simultaneously each character has their own episode there s a michael episode a gob episode a lindsay episode a maeby episode and the action across the episodes is happening simultaneously if i m driving down the street in my episode and gob s going down the sidewalk on his segway you could stop my episode go into his episode and follow him and see where he s going it s not exactly like a choose your own adventure type of thing but mitch has written these episodes exclusively for the distribution platform and format of netflix knowing that they were all going to be released like an album on the same day so certain clues are revealed to you based on the order in which you watch them there will be an order that is suggested but because part of the fun of what he does is so dense and multilayered i mean if you could see the writers room before we started shooting the cards and literally the strings of yarn different colored characters where plotlines and index cards are matched to this one and then there s an entire other room that is the movie it looks like a beautiful mind written by jasdye at 12 41 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels comedic enterprises friday march 22 2013 cps and further de stabilization we re stabilizing our district so we can build the academic performance chicago public schools ceo barbara byrd bennet on the closing of 52 schools in one year we ve recently discussed how a mayor who is quickly undermining the public sector and removing funding from anti violence measures in the city has also blamed residents for the gang centric violence in their own neighborhoods and now he closes down more than 50 schools in these same high poverty high crime underresourced segregated neighborhoods in one shot in one year without adequate research cost analysis just decides it needs to be done tells us it needs to be done holds some hearings wherein parents come out in droves to voice loudly their disapproval where parents protest where parents and students testify that shutting down their schools is dangerous and destabilizing where parents hold mic checks to send signals to cps that cps needs to listen to us and cps ignores u s they send out proxies but the proxies are bored rahm is nowhere to be seen no wait he s riding the slopes when this announcement is made on his behalf what effect will all this have there are some things we can guess but for the most part we ve already seen the effects of closing down several schools simultaneously it s violence kids having to choose between gangs in a highly segregated city replete with racialized violence against young people do you really believe that something horrible won t happen just as the shooting numbers are decreasing children and care givers will begin the new year at the tail end of a lethal summer running from gangs thanks rahm and barbara in the meantime hundreds of chicago residents have been summarily fired so much for stabilization byrd bennett written by jasdye at 12 18 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels apartheid chicago cps rahm emanuel schools in crisis wednesday march 20 2013 waiting for scabby schools in crisis iii i know unions are often vilified as the unjust protector of the lazy incompetent shiftless worker especially when it comes to public sector unions and it s particularly fashionable to blame teachers unions such as the chicago teachers union for poor performance of schools and students especially thanks to liberal movies like waiting for superman there are times when it is true that unions protect bloating ineffeciency or bad workers but those few cases are stymied out of proportion the enemy isn t the unions no in fact they protect against growing inequity and in the case of education unions against the corporatization and privatization of education they protect against the current tides that would turn our students into commodities a tide that we see is unrelenting in the post secondary world with overwhelming debt to an increasingly costly higher education rather the enemy is a mindset that says most of our children are not welcome to the education that the wealthy kids in the wealthy regions have the enemy is a mindset that places high accountability on teachers to bring test scores of students with high stress levels with malnourished stomachs in overcrowded and underresourced schools up to par with wealthy well fed well regulated students with private tutors and classes no larger than fifteen a piece our children are taught to the test wealthy children are taught to succeed i m not hating it s just that we need that as well the enemy is a system that takes what little money goes to working class and black brown students and sucks it out through the industrial testing machine to assess what students are learning through worthless and disenfranchising bubblesheets bubblesheets that teachers spend the better part of the year teaching their kids how to fill correctly so they d have a chance to allow the school to not be drastically defunded no the union member who is teaching my daughter how to read and add in english and spanish is doing a fantastic job because she has some protections and she is being compensated decently for it as well not as high as should be but decently as should be i worry about the next few years as my daughter will have to in order to meet national standards that unions are trying to fight against even as the administrators shout do not resist conform more and more to testing apparatuses that stifle intellectual curiosity the main problem isn t the unions or their pensions the main problem is that teachers are not encouraged to educate in a cooperative and meaningful fashion but compelled to conform to normalizing and competitive corporate powers that s what propaganda like waiting for superman is about diane ravitch it bears mentioning that nations with high performing school systems whether korea singapore finland or japan have succeeded not by privatizing their schools or closing those with low sco...