Monday, March 12, 2012

"The radical message of the early racial reconciliation leaders, by the time it got to white, grassroots evangelicals, was minimized to little more than having respect for people of other races, or having a cross-race friendship. When a more radical message is pushed, as the leader of Promise Keepers, Bill McCatney, observed, the walls go up, and those in the conservative Christian subculture tune him out." --Divided by Faith 167-168

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

"Many view Gal 3:28 as the egalitarian counterpart to 1 Tim 2:11-12, but the two passages function differently. 1 Tim 2:11-12 speaks directly to ecclesial roles, and a conclusion about ecclesial roles can be formed directly from the passage...Interpreters draw different conclusions from 1 Tim 2:11-12 only because they interpret the passage differently...Gal 3:28 does not operate in this way; rather, some intervening logical premise must be supplied to draw a conclusion about ecclesial roles. Interpreters [Egalitarian and Complementarian] draw different conclusions from Gal 3:28 because they supply different premises." --Douglas Walker's Dissertation from Trinity Divinity school

Monday, February 27, 2012

"The power of the media lies not only in their ability to reflect the dominant racial ideology, but in their capacity to shape that ideology in the first place." --Rethinking the Color Line p20

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

"We need, therefore, to ask whether sometimes--I don't say always--fundamentalism is a defense of a postbiblical interpretation rather than a willingness to go back to the text and be led by it." --Howard Marshal, Beyond the Bible p31-32

Saturday, November 26, 2011

"The gender-based culture of evangelicals and fundamentalists is produced and replicated by such 'subtle arrangements'...These often unspoken behavior rules and requirements are harder to document than the gendered nature of the material or ideological dimensions of culture, and they are particularly difficult for critics within the tradition to challenge because such criticism is made to seem petty." --Ingersoll "Evangelical Christian Women" p109

Friday, October 28, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhZ2tvv3mto&feature=related

Sunday, September 4, 2011

“I can imagine what little kids must think—that I stole their daddy from them—I can uh—I deserve to be here.”

“Not everybody who’s caught up in the Aryan brotherhood is a bad person. Not everybody sees it for what it really is. I sure as hell didn’t. And it was all right around me—I just didn’t want to believe it—I didn’t want to see it.”

--Casper “National Geographic: Aryan Brotherhood