I was invited to be one of the preachers for the Last Seven Words Service at Church on the Hill AME Zion Church, NYC. I took the fifth phrase: “I am thirsty.” After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty.” A jarContinue reading “thirsting for dangerous memory: a good friday sermon”
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walter benjamin, solidarity, and my peace delegation
I spent my last semester at Union Theological Seminary thinking about the past. Ever since I learned, two years ago, about Walter Benjamin’s concept of the weak messianic force, I knew I wanted to write my thesis on it. The idea is mainly found in On the Concept of History. It outlines how a historicalContinue reading “walter benjamin, solidarity, and my peace delegation”
desert ascetics in the land of plenty
God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse released last year and was co-written by Slavoj Zizek and Boris Gunjevic. Re-reading it again for a third time, I am enjoying the chapters written by Gunjevic even more. Gunjevic uses St. Augustine’s City of God as an ethical playbook to destroy capitalism. In the quote below, Gunjevic writes that to subvertContinue reading “desert ascetics in the land of plenty”
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