Geoffrey Holsclaw

So today our family picked up our fruit and veggie boxes from Angle Organics, our local CSA. And today, via Church World Service, I learned that the House is about to vote on the new Farm Bill (learn more about the farm bill and whose involved) and I through them I contacted by representative and […]

Africa: Churches Reject New Trade Pacts With Europe –This is a very interesting article discussing African Trade, the UE, and WTO trade standard. Sure that might not sound very interesting, but it is significant that many churches in Africa are involved in what is going on concerning fair trade, domestic and foreign and global markets. […]

Please go check out Eric Austin Lee‘s The Gift in Stranger than Fiction, pt. 1 over at church and pomo. It’s talking about that grat movie Stranger than Fiction, and then reading it through both Derrida’s and Milbank’s understanding of ‘gift’. Today is Derrida’s turn and Wednesday is Milbank’s. This is good stuff.

I really want to figure out how to get all my news through the church instead of either Fox or NPR. Can anyone help me? I was challenged recently that we should be listening to the global church to find out what is going on in the world instead of mega-news agencies who think only […]

I once preached on this, in relation to the story of the road to Emmaus. And I still want to say something close to it. That Christ is found everywhere his ministry is continued, everywhere his actions are imitated, everywhere his gestures are followed. I certainly want to uphold a high sacramental position within the […]

Sure, we might have ‘christian’ music, ‘christian’ books, ‘christian’ movies, ‘christian’ politics, etc, etc. But ‘christian’ is not a means of modifying of something we already have. When we think this way we “make ‘Christian’ an adjective, an epithet, a style—when what God offers his people is particular action—verbs—through which they can become and distinctive […]

O’ man. Where have I been? It has been over a month since I last posted. Where has the time gone. Easter pretty much took a bunch of my time, and then I was in Philly last week for the Emergent Theological Conversation with Caputo and Kearney (which was great!). I was also organizing the […]

…but now I find out that I’m really part of Generation Y. Yes, douglas coupland has nothing on me. I was reading this great article about consumerism and the return of the ‘me generation’ and it said that Gen Y is from 1977-97. I was born in ’78, just made the cut off. anyway, the […]

Cute Veil! Where’d You Get It?by Endy M. Bayuni How Fashion takes advantage on dispute between conservatives and liberals. “So while the conservatives and liberals are slugging it out to try to impose their values on the rest of society, most Indonesian girls, like their peers around the world, just want to have fun. The […]

I won’t go into all the stuff about the global economy and sweatshops and what not. If you care about where your clothes are many, or care about innovative economic possibilities, then check out these shirts made in Palestinian and Israeli collaboration. You can get the lowdown here, and watch the youtube below.