Title: All Art Is Propaganda Author: George Orwell Genre: Literary Collections Release Date: 2009 Pages: 374 Offering commentary on the worlds of film, drama, literature, and language, a collection of criticism and essays by the author of 1984 includes such pieces as "Politics and the English Language," "Rudyard Kipling," and "Good Bad Books." This was …
On Getting Your Conscience Out of the Dumpster
At first I was tempted to call this post “A Little Race Rant,” but I don’t think I will do that. It will be more like a sermon than a rant. It will only seem like a rant to some because I am going to say a few things that it seems to me many …
What the First Christmas Was Not
“He did not come down here, He was not born on the earth, in order to work out a power-sharing arrangement with Caesar” (God Rest Ye Merry, p. 66).
But Is Also the Reason Why There Is a PR Department
“A true reformer gives the PR department fits” (Rules for Reformers, p. 19).
A Shakedown Gone Wrong
Well, you can’t say that NYC doesn’t know how to make it worse. Ramsey Orta, the man who took the footage of Eric Garner’s arrest and death, has been indicted on a gun charge. In response to my point in the previous post, someone answered my question about what Brown and Garner were both doing …
So the Punk Is New York City
On the surface, the situations in Staten Island and Ferguson – two instances of a grand jury’s refusing to indict a white cop for the death of a black man – are quite similar. But other than that one factor the situations are dramatically different. Actually, there is one other significant similarity – Al Sharpton …
Why Would They Be Off the Table?
“Jesus came into the world to save us from our sins, and our political sins are not exempt from this salvation” (God Rest Ye Merry, 65).
You Don’t Want Change Unless You Want a Fight
“This means that reformers should expect resistance and conflict. A reformer does not walk onto the stage to polite applause . . . When you are attacked by the powers that be, this is not a sign that something has gone dangerously wrong. There is no distinction to be made between working for reformation and …
Dead Set Against It
“Herod knew what many Christians do not. The birth of this child meant that the old way of ruling mankind was doomed. The transition from the old way of rule to the new way of rule was not going to be simple or easy, but it was going to happen. Of the increase of the …
So Start at This End
“Expecting our faith to affect the larger polis when it has not yet changed the average shelf at the local Christian book store is expecting something that is not going to happen” (Rules for Reformers, p. 5).