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| 25e6adc | Every political theology is exorcising demons--the question is which demons. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 4c691ba | The Godfather amounts to a visual parable of a challenge and critique that dogs the Cultural Liturgies project: while I extol the formative power of historic Christian worship practices, it would seem that there can be--and are--people who have spent entire lifetimes immersed in the rites of historic Christian worship who nonetheless emerge from them not only unformed but perhaps even malformed.2 Or, to put it otherwise: clearly, regular pa.. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| e8dbd7a | If liturgy forms us by conforming us to the image of Christ (Rom. 8:29), then why are Christians so often conformed to the world (per Rom. 12:2)? | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 47ee962 | Mark Hamilton is surely right when he points out that we "allow athletics to dictate to us what school districts we will live in, what jobs to hold, how to spend our leisure time, whom we marry, what activities we place our children in, how we will spend large sums of money, or with whom to socialize. It reaches into every nook and cranny of life. We give it a power over us." | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 0fc72e4 | So we have a twofold challenge to the social task of forging life in common: the deep, confessional diversity that shapes how we think about a life well lived and the norms for a good society; and the corrosive, antisocial forces--often fostered by the pseudo-community of the market and the state--that incline us toward Randian self-interest and self-preservation. Atlas shrugs while the ties that bind fray to breaking. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 560a27f | Radner rightly presses us to recognize that pursuing the common good with gospel integrity requires both a healthy state and an ecclesial anchor. For some of us, that will mean rethinking our tendency to vilify "the state" and its procedures. For others of us, it will mean revaluing the centrality of the church as our political center--a body politic whose worship includes the regular confession of her sins while at the same time laboring f.. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 1dcf1a4 | I think we should first recognize and admit that the marketing industry--which promises an erotically charged transcendence through media that connects to our heart and imagination--is operating with a better, more creational, more incarnational, more holistic anthropology than much of the (evangelical) church. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 7e042f1 | As lovers--as desiring creatures and liturgical animals--our primary orientation to the world is visceral, not cerebral. In this respect, ancient wisdom about spiritual disciplines intersects with contemporary psychological insight into consciousness. The result is a picture that should lead us to appreciate the significant role of the unconscious in action and behavior. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| af6210e | there are no box seats at this table, no reservations for VIPs, no filet mignon for those who can afford it while the rest eat crumbs from their table. The Lord's Table is a leveling reality in a world of increasing inequalities, an enacted vision of "a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine" (Isa. 25:6)." | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 7740177 | Taylor is not only interested in understanding how "the secular" emerged; he is also an acute observer of how we're all secular now. The secular touches everything. It not only makes unbelief possible; it also changes belief--it impinges upon Christianity (and all religious communities). So Taylor's account also diagnoses the roots and extent of Christianity's assimilation--and hints at how we might cultivate resistance." | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 983d32f | often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| e5c009b | Those formed by such liturgies then become the kind of people who pursue and desire that end. So if we are unreflectively immersed in the liturgies of consumerism, we will, over time, "learn" that the end goal of human life is acquisition and consumption. "What is the chief end of man?" the consumerist catechism asks. "To acquire stuff with the illusion that I can enjoy it forever." | James K.A. Smith | ||
| d225555 | Our most revolutionary political act is to hope | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 137a268 | You can't just think your way to new hungers. While Pollan and Berry may have successfully recruited my intellect, their books couldn't change my habits. Such rehabituation was going to require a whole new set of practices. And while their arguments could be intellectual catalysts for me--epiphanies of insight into how my hunger-habits had been deformed--unlearning those habits would require counterformative practices, different rhythms and.. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| e11e64a | Do we tell ourselves we're "just going" in order to guard against the disappointment of never arriving? Do we call the road "home" to avoid the pain of never being welcomed?" | James K.A. Smith | ||
| cc4645b | the distorted understanding of worldview that dominates current models assumes a rationalist, intellectualist, cognitivist model of the human person; as a result, it fails to honor the fact that we are embodied, material, fundamentally desiring animals who are, whether we recognize it or not (and perhaps most when we don't recognize it), every day being formed by the material liturgies of other pedagogies--at the mall, at the stadium, on te.. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| f6c5707 | But once, in the light and warmth of an autumn afternoon, this writer saw on the bench of a public square, in a poor Parisian suburb, an old and poor couple. They were sitting hand in hand, in silence, enjoying the pale light, the last warmth of the season. In silence: all words had been said, all passion exhausted, all storms at peace. The whole life was behind--yet all of it was now present, in this silence, in this light, in this warmth,.. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 8358767 | Philosopher James K. A. Smith reminds us that it is not just religions that disciple--our culture disciples us. According to Smith every structure of a culture carries a worldview and a form of teaching that "shape and constitute our identities by forming our most fundamental desires and our most basic attunement to the world.... They prime us to approach the world in a certain way, to value certain things, to aim for certain goals, to purs.. | Mark Sayers | ||
| e40b90f | We need to think further about how a Christian understanding of human persons should also shape how we teach, not just what we teach. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| fa22134 | a virtue is a disposition that inclines us to achieve the good for which we are made. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 4b899d9 | Theology must be political if it is to be evangelical. Rule out the political questions and you cut short the proclamation of God's saving power; you leave people enslaved where they ought to be set free from sin--their own sin and others'. Oliver O'Donovan, The Desire of the Nations | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 46e8466 | Instead of the bottom-up emphasis on worship as our expression of devotion and praise, historic Christian worship is rooted in the conviction that God is the primary actor or agent in the worship encounter. Worship works from the top down, you might say. In worship we don't just come to show God our devotion and give him our praise; we are called to worship because in this encounter God (re)makes and molds us top-down. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| c77ab4b | The liturgy is a "hearts and minds" strategy, a pedagogy that trains us as disciples precisely by putting our bodies through a regimen of repeated practices that get a hold of our heart and "aim" or love towards the kingdom of God. Before we articulate a worldview, we worship. Before we put into words the lineaments of an ontology or an epistemology, we pray for God's healing and illumination. Before we theorize the nature of God, we sing h.. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| ca1db5c | All habits and practices are ultimately trying to make us into a certain kind of person. So one of the most important questions we need to ask is: Just what kind of person is this habit or practice trying to produce, and to what end is such a practice aimed? | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 5bd9187 | Kahlil | James Sullivan | ||
| 24061d1 | For the FBI, the [successful] search for an illegal [was]... the ultimate goal in counter-intelligence." William Sullivan and Sam Papich were the widely accepted false identity experts for the Bureau, working closely with CIA counterpart James Angleton, but occasionally a commentator with inside knowledge names a lesser-known FBI expert in false identity." | George Evica | ||
| 1751bc2 | It was on Sullivan's 1932 series that listeners first heard the voices of Jack Benny, Jack Pearl, Irving Berlin, Florenz Ziegfeld, and George M. Cohan. Sullivan's radio fame was enhanced by his newspaper column, "Little Old New York," in the New York Daily News. His Toast of the Town (CBS, June 20, 1948-June 6, 1971) was the biggest variety hour of early television." | John Dunning | ||
| 2b3bdbc | And from what I remember about our casting meeting, his eyes kept circling back to " "Don't be ridiculous," she said in as light a voice as she could manage, as if they were joking about something that would never, ever happen in a million years. "Well," George said after a pause that was just a little too long for her comfort, "I think we both know that if the beautiful and talented and filthy rich Smith Sullivan is smart enough to try t.. | Bella Andre | ||
| 2da1ee6 | In 2000, interior minister [of France] Jean-Pierre Chevenement said Europe should become a place of race-mixing (metissage) and that governments should make efforts to persuade Europeans to accept this. In 2007, both candidates in the French presidential election took the same view. Socialist Segolene Royale, said that "miscegenation is an opportunity for France," adding that she would encourage immigration and would be "president of a Fran.. | suicide miscegenation segregation genocide immigration race government | Jared Taylor | |
| 9377dd3 | The MS City of New York commanded by Captain George T. Sullivan, maintained a regular schedule between New York City and Cape Town, South Africa until the onset of World War II when on March 29, 1942 she was attacked off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina by the German submarine U-160 commanded by Kapitanleutnant Georg Lassen. The torpedo struck the MS City of New York at the waterline under the ship's bridge instantly disabling her.. | mma-captain-hank-bracker sinking-ship u-boats world-war-ii ships | Captain Hank "Seawater Three" | |
| 81d7a1b | At one point, Bush and his wife, Barbara, were staying at their Kennebunkport home in the winter, and they went out for a walk in the freezing cold. "I had a hat on, and two of the other agents had a hat on, but the one agent assigned to the first lady didn't bring a hat with him," says former agent Patrick F. Sullivan, who was on the President's Protective Detail from 1986 to 1990. "So the president came out with Mrs. Bush, and we started .. | Ronald Kessler | ||
| e5157f8 | Voters tend to forget that presidents are, first and foremost, people. If they are unbalanced, nasty, and hypocritical, that will be reflected in their judgment and job performance. If | Ronald Kessler | ||
| 75d082c | John W. Hinckley | Ronald Kessler | ||
| c8f8f38 | Carlos Allen | Ronald Kessler | ||
| 6427b74 | Trainees learn to respond to threats and take turns playing the protectee. | Ronald Kessler | ||
| b05c81c | using pressure points to unlock his grip. | Ronald Kessler | ||
| 85113e9 | by shifting into reverse, jerking the wheel to the right or left, and shifting into drive. | Ronald Kessler | ||
| 1327fc5 | Even though the training center is in Laurel, agents refer to it as "Beltsville," | Ronald Kessler | ||
| c4feb89 | academy--instructors set up scenarios to show trainees how | Ronald Kessler | ||
| d4a9a05 | No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character," John Morley," | Ronald Kessler | ||
| e4fcff0 | had taken her for his bride. She had good legs, very white, and a good body, and her name was May. | Ed McBain | ||
| f99abcf | twice | Ed McBain | ||
| c63618a | lot of money over | Ed McBain | ||
| b84161e | Il lui arrivait souvent de regarder les vieilles dames qui traversaient d'un pas trainant les rues de la ville la ou l'autobus menacait et savait qu'a l'interieur de ces corps ratatines souriaient des visages resplendissants d'adolescentes. | Ed McBain |