Below is an article originally published in Christian Ethics Today, The Mennonite, and Third Way Allegiance. It’s, obviously, that damn good. (Ah, hello machismo. I knew you hadn’t strayed far.) It has had different titles for each publication with each publisher changing my original and more polemical–and slightly in jest–title, “Why Christianity Must Kill the White Man.” Seriously. It […]
All right, loyal Amish Jihadist readers, listen up: I published my first two page comic in the latest issue of Geez Magazine. Along with the stellar artwork of Zak Upright, we’ve created a comic called Anarcrow! It’s about a crow who enjoys mocking everything from John Locke to your grandmother’s crappy apple pie (and Chevrolet). We, […]
In “Theater of the Absurd,” the narrator’s own “committed” prayers mimic the disrupting gasps of a man with Tourette’s syndrome, a visible sign of “everyman’s condition.”
Daily Beast has a recent piece on FOMO, which translates to the: Fear Of Missing Out. After providing a few case studies on this condition that apparently plagues Millenials, the author claims: “FOMO is our generation’s cross to bear.” A few responses immediately sprung to mind: 1. I can accept the idea that FOMO is a characteristic […]
[For any of you keeping score, this is a re-hash of a post I did last November (I imagine I’ll probably be re-hashing the re-hash next year as well). Unfortunately, the full ‘Guns and Greed’ video has been taken off of youtube, so the clip below will have to do.] When I was in Chicago, […]
There is an interesting discussion on Andy Crouch’s recent essay about the “common good” brewing in the comments section of Alan Jacob’s response. I tentatively agree with a few of the points made in the back and forth that can be found at those two links. What I do find fundamentally constructive about Crouch’s overall theological […]
In “Water Mission,” Jillena Rose offers a narrative of a childhood in Saigon, where she learned the prayer of “women in white silk laughing, letting water run over their fingers . . . another sound for praise.”
A few environmental pundits have recently taken up an oddly contrarian position: personal consumption choices don’t matter. “Lifestyle changes that emphasize greater efficiency, less consumption, and genuine personal sacrifice may feel good and make for good press, but they rarely help the earth,” argue economists Paul Wapner and John Willoughby (Ethics & International Affairs, 12/05). […]
[Hey, it’s another guest post. Go figure. This one is written by David Tigabu. Timely.] – The images flash on the television screen and are plastered all over the Internet. Pictures of submerged underground subway tunnels, damaged cranes dangling 90 stories above Manhattan, ripped off facades of apartment complexes, Ocean City living up to its name, […]