[blockquote type=”center”]“The Solomonic establishment embodies the loss of passion, which is the inability to care or suffer.” (The Prophetic Imagination 41) [/blockquote] “The first transcontinental railroad was built with blood, sweat, politics and thievery, out of the meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. The Central Pacific started on the West Coast going…
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Caris Adel
Mid-Week Reads Week 4
A round-up of interesting things to read that I’ve come across over the past week. You can scroll down and zoom out within the embedded page here, or you can click the title and go to the actual Pearltrees page. Clicking on each square will open the link in a new tab. Mid-Week Reads Week 4,…
Civil Rights Recap in Videos
With the 50th anniversary of the Selma march tomorrow, I wanted to bring all my kids up to speed on everything and place the current events within a historical framework. So we just sat and watched short videos for the last hour, and I just wanted to share them in case anyone else found them…
What I’m Into – February 2015
Mid-Week Reads Week 3
A round-up of interesting things to read that I’ve come across over the past week. You can scroll down and zoom out within the embedded page here, or you can click the title and go to the actual Pearltrees page. Clicking on each square will open the link in a new tab. Mid-Week Reads Week 3,…
Mid-Week Reads Week 2
Deconstructing Christian Whiteness
A toddler builds a tower out of blocks. He knocks it down and starts again, examining the blocks as he builds. He examines the colors, shapes, sizes, as he builds his creation. How often do we kick down the towers we’ve built and look at the pieces? [line] Black voices surrounded me, singing words like…
The Grind of Endless Production
[blockquote type=”center”]”The Solomonic achievement was in part made possible by oppressive social policy…Fundamental to social policy was the practice of forced labor, in which at least to some extent subjects existed to benefit the state or the political economy….it was unmistakably the policy of the regime to mobilize and claim the energies of people for…
Mid-Week Reads Week 1
Food as a Tool of Control
[blockquote type=”center”]”The royal policy is to accomplish a food monopoly. In that ancient world as in any contemporary world, food is a weapon and a tool of control.”(Journey to the Common Good 5)[/blockquote] Buffalo was the Native Americans’ main food source. So….I wonder what the empire of the United States did (and continues to do). “One…