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Mike Rivage-Seul is a liberation theologian and former Roman Catholic priest. Retired in 2014, he taught at Berea College in Kentucky for 40 years where he directed Berea's Peace and Social Justice Studies Program. His latest book is "The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: seeing through alternative fact & fake news." Mike blogs at
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![]() "Indecent" Women Doing Liberation Theology Without Underwear: Saints Tina Turner & Chuck Berry According to "indecent" feminist theologians working without underwear, nothing might be more constructively indecent and therefore holy than rock 'n'roll music performed at the liturgies we call "concerts" by "saints" like Tina Turner and Chuck Berry. ![]()
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![]() Christmas: When Religion Is Capitalism and Market Is Our God Sometimes I feel myself almost hating Christmas. Even within my own family, I can't mention Jesus' birth without eyes rolling in my adult children's heads - without being accused of politicizing an otherwise happy holiday. Let's keep Christmas meaningless is the unspoken injunction. ![]()
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![]() Why the U.S. Cannot Compete with China in Africa or Anywhere Else The strictures of neoliberal ideology make the United States incapable of winning ANY competition with China. ![]()
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![]() Islam as Progressive, Reformed Christianity: 10 Reasons We Don't See That Living here in Spain has exposed my Eurocentric miseducation while helping me appreciate the west's profound debt to the prophet Muhammad and his enlightened reform of the Judeo-Christian tradition. ![]()
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![]() Anti-Colonial, Decolonized, Universal History (Part II) Far from leading human development in the fields of science, industry, culture, philosophy, and religion, Europeans and their American cousins have been marginal and unoriginal. ![]()
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![]() Beyond Eurocentric Theology: How Jesus Is (and Is Not) the "King of the Universe" SUNDAY HOMILY: Establishing Jesus as the the "King of the Universe" was completely ideological, misleading, and imperial. But there's a better way of understanding his "kingship." ![]()
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![]() "Jesus for the Left": It's Not Just Bias A response to the recent OEN article "Jesus for the Left, Jesus for the Right." Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (148 Articles, 239527 views) ![]()
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![]() How U.S. Capitalism Works: House Painters That Cover the Earth Western capitalists don't really believe in free market theory. Like mob figures in Scorsese's "The Irishman," they'd rather whack their competitors than improve their product or services. ![]()
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![]() Declaring America "A Christian Nation?" Here's Hoping 60% of Republicans Get Their Wish! SUNDAY HOMILY: If "America" truly became Christian, we'd have to address the issue of hunger on the one hand and extreme wealth on the other. We'd be forced to recognize the truth of liberation theology. ![]()
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![]() What the Unclothed Female Form Reveals about the Great Cosmic Mother - And Ourselves Since prehistoric times the unclothed female form has been recognized as a mostly wordless text revealing humankind's fundamental relationship to the Feminine Divine. ![]()
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![]() Abortion: A Theological Problem -- and Goddess solution SUNDAY REFLECTION: It is far past time to debunk the domineering patriarchal God in favor of the ancient Great Cosmic Mother who frees from patriarchal laws, empowers women as willing co-creators, forgives, appreciates, and rewards. ![]()
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![]() The Taiwan "Crisis": Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden Belong in Jail Any world leader who creates situations that make nuclear war possible, belongs in prison. ![]()
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![]() Critical Race Theory: How Much Should You Tell 13-Year-Olds about U.S. Crimes -- & Ukraine? My 13-year-old granddaughter's "service project" in Panama has provided a teachable moment. Despite anti-CRT objections, such opportunities should never be wasted in the name of protecting even young teenagers from the harsh realities of American history. ![]()
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![]() Russia in Ukraine: Champion and Proxy for the World's Oppressed In Ukraine Russia can be seen as a stand-in for the world's oppressed. NATO on the other hand represents the oppressors. ![]()
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![]() The Truth behind "Great Replacement Theory": Capitalism, Imperialism, & Regime Change Are at Fault SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's readings call white Christian males to shift blame for job loss and low wages away from capitalism's victims to the white supremacist, imperialist, capitalist patriarchy itself. ![]()
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![]() The Abortion Debate: If Animals Are Persons, Are Carnivores Murderers? The animals we kill for food and pleasure have at least as much right to be classified as persons as human fetuses before viability outside the womb. According to "pro-life" logic, does that mean that carnivores are murderers? ![]()
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![]() When They Ask: "Why Do You Hate America? SUNDAY HOMILY: Because of my heterodox position on the Ukraine war, my tribe thinks I've gone off the deep end. Today's readings suggest that's to be expected for any follower of Elijah, Elisha, and Yeshua. ![]()
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![]() U.S. Empire, Haiti, and the Tragic Suppression of Liberation Theology SUNDAY HOMILY: Empire always hates prophets like the ascended Jesus -- and like the liberation theologian, Jean Bertrand Aristide whose story is referenced in the NYT series on Haiti, "The Ransom." Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (148 Articles, 239527 views) ![]()
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![]() Americans Should Be the Ones Dying in Ukraine: Beyond Virtue Signaling Let me get this straight: it's a proxy war -- our government's fight. But they could never sell the idea of having Americans die for what. . . Ukraine? But here's an idea: why not let Ukrainians do that for us? Can you spell c-y-n-i-c-i-s-m? Wave that Ukrainian flag! ![]()
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![]() Why Is the U.S. so Interested in Ukraine? The Conflict's Long and Deep Conceptual Roots The Ukraine conflict has been over a century in the making. It's about the lynchpin of world domination. Page 1 of 20 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |