For some time now I’ve been suspicious of the anti-trafficking movement, and especially that segment of it that’s specifically Christian. It’s long struck me as sensationalist, focusing on sex work to the exclusion of other forms of forced labor (Hi there, Nike and the US Agriculture industry!), as well as overly broad. It seemed there [...]
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Stuck in Trafficking
January 31, 2013
Perfection, Freedom, Surrender
January 22, 2013
“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Matthew 5:48
God bless MLK. God damn MLK Day.
January 21, 2013
Today I’m off work for the MLK Holiday, and I’m thankful for that. I can use the rest. I’m also dismayed by the day. Rev. King was killed in Memphis while he was there supporting the sanitation workers who were striking. I walked out my front door today to see the rows of emptied trash [...]
Ted Jennings on Advent
December 12, 2012
From Homebrewed Christianity. What we do is pretend that we have hope, and joy, and love. What we yearn for is what stands under those names. Hope and joy and love, but which we dare not hope for. Advent is a time when we have a chance, if we want to take the chance, of [...]
Constructed from a mutable stuff
December 8, 2012
There is an element of irreducible indeterminacy and instability built right into creation, so that creation is going to be continually exposed to re-creation. What God has formed is able both to come unformed, to break down or come unstrung – that is the bad news, the downside of the risk – but by the [...]