Comments on: Ugandan reaction mixed to comments from Obama, Clinton

By: Jeff Sharlet

Jeff Sharlet — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:25:47 +0000

Don’t listen to Rhodes — I’m a music-on-the-radio guy. I read The Nation and National Review, but, yes, my sympathies tend toward more toward The Nation. That doesn’t mean NR doesn’t do good reporting from time to time, just as it doesn’t mean I don’t. And yes: start with the theology. That’s what I tried to do, embedding in the experience of lived religion. Doctrinal statements aren’t enough to explain lived religion, especially when they begin by declaring an aversion to doctrine. This whole project began — and ended — for me with language: the puzzle of “Jesus plus nothing” from the mouths of the powerful, the meaning of “love” in the Family (hint: it’s not like love in my family), even the seemingly throw-away words, such as “just” — as in “just please let us pray,” a word that intrigued me so much that I went across the country to talk to evangelical scholars at Westmont College about it. The book ends with language and theology, too — the distinctions and overlaps between “salvation” and “deliverance,” “revelation” and “exodus.”

By: David Blakeselee

David Blakeselee — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:25:02 +0000

If we start at the theology…and work our way back, I think we can dismantle this thing together…

and finally move forward.

Thankfully.

By: David Blakeselee

David Blakeselee — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:34:16 +0000

I was wrong…it wasn’t Joy Bahar…

It was Randi Rhodes’ radio show.

By: David Blakeselee

David Blakeselee — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:32:26 +0000

Jeff,

Thanks for the apology…it was more than I needed.

I am very capable of the things you assumed…but I really believe that gets me nowhere.

I don’t mind bias, it seems unavoidable and my wish is that we can all help eachother know what our biases are as they shape any discussion.

I am not sure you are biased in this book…but I need to know certain things as I process the information you provide…it helps me think clearer and trust you more.

I don’t read the Nation…much.

I am a National Review guy.

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:51:07 +0000

And to add, that the sections in the law limiting free speech be revoked. Reading Warren's "perhaps dramatically" brought to my mind the speech provision.