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I've released an ebook version of Christianity and the Social Crisis. It's free to download, read, distribute, whatever.

I've updated the text, added some footnotes, but have left the arguments as-is.

You can find it here: https://books.naughtybaptist.com/social-crisis

#Christianity #ChristianSocialism #Socialism #HumanMadeProject

#askfedi Looking for web-annotation solutions, or other options

Boosts appreciated!

I finished my first pass of getting the text of Christianity and the Social Crisis, by Walter Rauschenbusch, cleaned up wit the goal of making a nice ebook version.

I'd like to get more eyes on it, to proofread and spot any formatting errors, etc. My thought would be to have a simple way for people to add comments to the HTML in some distributed capacity.

I want to use open and free solutions for this.

So, the asks:
1. Would you like to proofread? Let me know!
2. What are good options to let multiple people (but not very many people, I imagine) add notes to html?

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OK, I've edited as much as I'm going to tonight, so closing this thread down.

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15/15

Speaking against the idea that preachers should stay away from social issues, for some may say they are meddling or outside their purview:

"Balance was hardly the distinguishing quality of the Old Testament prophets, and yet they are commonly supposed to have been good for something."

#Christianity #ChristianSocialism #Socialism

14/

"Others can talk from the point of view of economic and political expediency; does the minister talk from the point of view of the eternally true and right?"

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13/

SO MUCH to say about ministers not being puppets for a politcal party, but for standing up for social issues because Christ calls us to.

"A minister has no business to be the megaphone of a political party and its catchwords. He should rather be the master of politics by creating the issues which parties will have to espouse. Questions are usually discussed a long time before they become political issues. Old political parties are controlled by conservative forces and will take up progressive measures only when it is necessary to retain their followers or outbid another party. The time for the pulpit to do its best work is before a question is torn to tatters on the platform."

#Christianity #ChristianSocialism #Socialism

12/

On a minister's bias towards businessmen over workers:

"If he attends the dinners of the Chamber of Commerce, he must take socialist street meetings as an antidote. Socialism has fully as much claim on his intellect as Robert Browning."

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11/

The saying of Mirabeau is as true as any other historical maxim, "When the people have complained, the people have always been right."

[apparently not an exact quote, but close enough]

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10/

This definitely still rings true, almost 120 years later:

"Men who first begin to discuss social wrongs are likely to launch into personal invective against prominent individuals. This tendency is in part a product of our religious individualism. We have always been told that if only all individuals were regenerated and lived right, all social questions would be solved. Consequently when we see wrong done, we feel that it must be due to the personal wickedness of individuals. "

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"There are preachers who undertake to discuss the largest social questions with the air of a specialist and the knowledge of a tyro^[a beginner, or a novice]. I knew a man who preached a course of sermons on social questions after reading his first book on the subject. He may have been equally rash in discussing the ways of the Almighty, but God is patient and does not talk back."

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8/

"But such a view of our professional life would bring it under religious scrutiny. If a man’s calling consisted in manufacturing or selling useless or harmful stuff, he would find himself unable to connect it with his religion. ... As soon as religion will set the kingdom of God before it as the all-inclusive aim, and will define it so as to include all rightful relations among men, the awakened conscience will begin to turn its searchlight on the industrial and commercial life in detail, and will insist on eliminating all professions which harm instead of helping, and on coordinating all productive activities to secure a maximum of service. That in itself would produce a quiet industrial revolution. "

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7/

On the sancity of work:

If now we could have faith enough to believe that all human life can be filled with divine purpose; that God saves not only the soul, but the whole of human life; that anything which serves to make men healthy, intelligent, happy, and good is a service to the Father of men; that the kingdom of God is not bounded by the Church, but includes all human relations -- then all professions would be hallowed and receive religious dignity. A man making a shoe or arguing a law case or planting potatoes or teaching school, could feel that this was itself a contribution to the welfare of mankind, and indeed his main contribution to it.

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This one is so needed:

"And when politicians and social exploiters have to deal with the stubborn courage of men who pray about their politics, they will have a new factor to reckon with."

Makes me think about -- and mourn! -- how easily evangelicals have gone along with Trump and Christo-facism

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5/

"To repent of our collective social sins, to have faith in the possibility and reality of a divine life in humanity, to submit the will to the purposes of the kingdom of God, to permit the divine inspiration to emancipate and clarify the moral insight -- this is the most intimate duty of the religious man who would help to build the coming Messianic era of mankind."

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4/

OK more than 2 posts here. Too many quotable things in this chapter. Partly sharing, partly putting them here so I can find them later.

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#Socialism

3/

He follows that with this line, which I love:

"Macaulay said that the doctrine of gravitation would not yet be accepted if it had interfered with vested interests."

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2/2

Editing the final chapter of Christianity and the Social Crisis by Walter Rauschenbusch

In writing on the need for "social repentance" he talks of how people do not want to believe that they are making money from harming others. His response? Move on past them:

"In the early part of the nineteenth century, when tiny children in England were driven to the looms with whips, and women lost even the physical appearance of womanhood in the coal mines, the owners insisted that English industry would be ruined by the proposed reform laws, and doubtless they thought so. If men holding stock in traction companies assert that municipal ownership is un-American; if the express companies say that parcels cannot be carried below their own amazing rates; if Mr. Baer in the midst of the coal strike assured a minister that "God in his infinite wisdom had given control of the property interests of the country" to him and his associates and they would do all things well-- we must simply allow for the warping effect of self-interest and pass on to the order of the day."

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The Anglo-Catholic Socialist Collective are hosting a meeting tomorrow evening at 7pm BST to plan their (hybrid) September catchup.

If you're a leftist/progressive Christian and you'd be interested in giving a short talk, or contributing with food, helping with promotion etc., why not come along and share your ideas!

Registration available here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-6grTMrH9BSi3PbqcYpfcRBiJ_4sHmY

Feel free to share!

#Christianity #AngloCatholic #ChristianSocialism #LeftistChristianity #Organising

The Anglo-Catholic Socialist Collective are hosting a meeting tomorrow evening at 7pm BST to plan their (hybrid) September catchup.

If you're a leftist/progressive Christian and you'd be interested in giving a short talk, or contributing with food, helping with promotion etc., why not come along and share your ideas!

Registration available here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-6grTMrH9BSi3PbqcYpfcRBiJ_4sHmY

Feel free to share!

#Christianity #AngloCatholic #ChristianSocialism #LeftistChristianity #Organising

The Anglo-Catholic Socialist Collective are hosting a meeting tomorrow evening at 7pm BST to plan their (hybrid) September catchup.

If you're a leftist/progressive Christian and you'd be interested in giving a short talk, or contributing with food, helping with promotion etc., why not come along and share your ideas!

Registration available here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-6grTMrH9BSi3PbqcYpfcRBiJ_4sHmY

Feel free to share!

#Christianity #AngloCatholic #ChristianSocialism #LeftistChristianity #Organising

The Anglo-Catholic Socialist Collective are hosting a meeting tomorrow evening at 7pm BST to plan their (hybrid) September catchup.

If you're a leftist/progressive Christian and you'd be interested in giving a short talk, or contributing with food, helping with promotion etc., why not come along and share your ideas!

Registration available here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-6grTMrH9BSi3PbqcYpfcRBiJ_4sHmY

Feel free to share!

#Christianity #AngloCatholic #ChristianSocialism #LeftistChristianity #Organising

The Anglo-Catholic Socialist Collective are hosting a meeting tomorrow evening at 7pm BST to plan their (hybrid) September catchup.

If you're a leftist/progressive Christian and you'd be interested in giving a short talk, or contributing with food, helping with promotion etc., why not come along and share your ideas!

Registration available here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-6grTMrH9BSi3PbqcYpfcRBiJ_4sHmY

Feel free to share!

#Christianity #AngloCatholic #ChristianSocialism #LeftistChristianity #Organising

I asked the AI model ChatGPT to write a conversation between Jesus and Karl Marx. Sounds like Jesus is interested in socialism and wants to know more

#ai #ChatGPT #christiansocialism #marxism #socialism #liberationtheology

Hearing George call Potter a "warped, frustrated old man" hits so hard every time. https://christiansocialism.com/its-a-wonderful-life-capitalism-socialism/

#ItsAWonderfulLife #Christmas #ChristmasMovies #Socialism #ChristianSocialism

Seems like the paperback edition of my next book Red​ Enlightenment: On #Socialism #Science and #Spirituality is now available to pre-order!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1914420195/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1665115915&ref_=tmm_pap_swatch_0&sr=8-1

#enlightenment #communism #acidcommunism #secular #religious #marxism #theology #LiberationTheology #postcolonialism @philosophy #philosophy #cybernetics #AncientPhilosophy #indianphilosophy #ChinesePhilosophy #dialecticalmaterialism #ContemporaryArt #Art #utopianism #ChristianSocialism #engagedbuddhism #metamodernism

A longer list of research interests relevant to #RedEnlightenment

#education #consciousness #psychedelia #ChristianSocialism #engagedbuddhism #meditation #mindfulness #enlightenment #radicalenlightenment #decolonising #decolonizing #historyofphilosophy #ChinesePhilosophy #indianphilosophy #AncientPhilosophy #IslamicPhilosophy #spinoza #anthropology #utopianism #historyofscience #dialecticalmaterialism #deleuze #guattari #postmodernism #Bogdanov #ContemporaryArt #mysticism #activism #markfisher

A longer list of research interests relevant to #RedEnlightenment

#education #consciousness #psychedelia #ChristianSocialism #engagedbuddhism #meditation #mindfulness #enlightenment #radicalenlightenment #decolonising #decolonizing #historyofphilosophy #ChinesePhilosophy #indianphilosophy #AncientPhilosophy #IslamicPhilosophy #spinoza #anthropology #utopianism #historyofscience #dialecticalmaterialism #deleuze #guattari #postmodernism #Bogdanov #ContemporaryArt #mysticism #activism #markfisher

A longer list of research interests relevant to #RedEnlightenment

#education #consciousness #psychedelia #ChristianSocialism #engagedbuddhism #meditation #mindfulness #enlightenment #radicalenlightenment #decolonising #decolonizing #historyofphilosophy #ChinesePhilosophy #indianphilosophy #AncientPhilosophy #IslamicPhilosophy #spinoza #anthropology #utopianism #historyofscience #dialecticalmaterialism #deleuze #guattari #postmodernism #Bogdanov #ContemporaryArt #mysticism #activism #markfisher

A longer list of research interests relevant to #RedEnlightenment

#education #consciousness #psychedelia #ChristianSocialism #engagedbuddhism #meditation #mindfulness #enlightenment #radicalenlightenment #decolonising #decolonizing #historyofphilosophy #ChinesePhilosophy #indianphilosophy #AncientPhilosophy #IslamicPhilosophy #spinoza #anthropology #utopianism #historyofscience #dialecticalmaterialism #deleuze #guattari #postmodernism #Bogdanov #ContemporaryArt #mysticism #activism #markfisher

A longer list of research interests relevant to #RedEnlightenment

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Love this video by Religion for Breakfast on the history and interpretation of Mark 10:25: 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.'

In short, don't believe Prosperity Gospel nonsense — the needle was not a gate, it was a literal needle. Jesus very much did say that rich people don't go to heaven.

https://youtu.be/sf0Fm8aVApk

#Theology #BibleStudy #Jesus #JesusChrist #LiberationTheology #ChristianSocialism

G’day. 👋 A Mastodon #introduction : I’m Jarrod, living on Wadjuk Noongar land 🖤💛❤️ (on most maps as Perth, Australia). A decade ago, in the context of interviewing #BillMcKibben about our #climateemergency, he something to me that haunts me still. Bill said we have a responsibility to enjoy what future generations won’t experience in the same way.

*let that sink in*

So I’ll start with practices for me shaped by this conversation and Dostoyevsky’s words, “Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand.” I love talking to the #birds 🦜 and teaching my boys their Noongar names (like Uncle [ ] Garlett taught me). I love #surfing 🏄🏼‍♂️ #hiking ⛰ #snorking 🪸 #spearfishing 🐠🐬🐟#surfskating (I ride a Holy Toledo #Smoothstar 🛹🏄🏼‍♂️). Kathleen is my beloved. 🥰 The outdoors is literally a religious experience for me. Oh, talking God-bothering, that’s kinda my neurodiverse hyper-fixation: the transfiguring-nonviolent-liberating-love revealed in Jesus.

That’s lead to some award winning nonviolent trouble-making, a popular podcast with Dr Drew Hart (https://www.patreon.com/InVerse), and other stuff you can checkout here: https://jarrodmckenna.com

#theology: A very Jesus-y #ecojustice cocktail of #Hesychasm #Anabaptism #CatholicWorker #IndigenousTheology non-Marxist #ChristianSocialism #Quakerism #BlackChurch and charismania expressed in #Contemplative prayer, creative
#nonviolence and #solidarity.

So let’s collaborate in what John Lewis called, “good trouble”. 😊

G’day. 👋 A Mastodon #introduction : I’m Jarrod, living on Wadjuk Noongar land 🖤💛❤️ (on most maps as Perth, Australia). A decade ago, in the context of interviewing #BillMcKibben about our #climateemergency, he something to me that haunts me still. Bill said we have a responsibility to enjoy what future generations won’t experience in the same way.

*let that sink in*

So I’ll start with practices for me shaped by this conversation and Dostoyevsky’s words, “Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand.” I love talking to the #birds 🦜 and teaching my boys their Noongar names (like Uncle [ ] Garlett taught me). I love #surfing 🏄🏼‍♂️ #hiking ⛰ #snorking 🪸 #spearfishing 🐠🐬🐟#surfskating (I ride a Holy Toledo #Smoothstar 🛹🏄🏼‍♂️). Kathleen is my beloved. 🥰 The outdoors is literally a religious experience for me. Oh, talking God-bothering, that’s kinda my neurodiverse hyper-fixation: the transfiguring-nonviolent-liberating-love revealed in Jesus.

That’s lead to some award winning nonviolent trouble-making, a popular podcast with Dr Drew Hart (https://www.patreon.com/InVerse), and other stuff you can checkout here: https://jarrodmckenna.com

#theology: A very Jesus-y #ecojustice cocktail of #Hesychasm #Anabaptism #CatholicWorker #IndigenousTheology non-Marxist #ChristianSocialism #Quakerism #BlackChurch and charismania expressed in #Contemplative prayer, creative
#nonviolence and #solidarity.

So let’s collaborate in what John Lewis called, “good trouble”. 😊

G’day. 👋 A Mastodon #introduction : I’m Jarrod, living on Wadjuk Noongar land 🖤💛❤️ (on most maps as Perth, Australia). A decade ago, in the context of interviewing #BillMcKibben about our #climateemergency, he something to me that haunts me still. Bill said we have a responsibility to enjoy what future generations won’t experience in the same way.

*let that sink in*

So I’ll start with practices for me shaped by this conversation and Dostoyevsky’s words, “Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand.” I love talking to the #birds 🦜 and teaching my boys their Noongar names (like Uncle [ ] Garlett taught me). I love #surfing 🏄🏼‍♂️ #hiking ⛰ #snorking 🪸 #spearfishing 🐠🐬🐟#surfskating (I ride a Holy Toledo #Smoothstar 🛹🏄🏼‍♂️). Kathleen is my beloved. 🥰 The outdoors is literally a religious experience for me. Oh, talking God-bothering, that’s kinda my neurodiverse hyper-fixation: the transfiguring-nonviolent-liberating-love revealed in Jesus.

That’s lead to some award winning nonviolent trouble-making, a popular podcast with Dr Drew Hart (https://www.patreon.com/InVerse), and other stuff you can checkout here: https://jarrodmckenna.com

#theology: A very Jesus-y #ecojustice cocktail of #Hesychasm #Anabaptism #CatholicWorker #IndigenousTheology non-Marxist #ChristianSocialism #Quakerism #BlackChurch and charismania expressed in #Contemplative prayer, creative
#nonviolence and #solidarity.

So let’s collaborate in what John Lewis called, “good trouble”. 😊

G’day. 👋 A Mastodon #introduction : I’m Jarrod, living on Wadjuk Noongar land 🖤💛❤️ (on most maps as Perth, Australia). A decade ago, in the context of interviewing #BillMcKibben about our #climateemergency, he something to me that haunts me still. Bill said we have a responsibility to enjoy what future generations won’t experience in the same way.

*let that sink in*

So I’ll start with practices for me shaped by this conversation and Dostoyevsky’s words, “Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand.” I love talking to the #birds 🦜 and teaching my boys their Noongar names (like Uncle [ ] Garlett taught me). I love #surfing 🏄🏼‍♂️ #hiking ⛰ #snorking 🪸 #spearfishing 🐠🐬🐟#surfskating (I ride a Holy Toledo #Smoothstar 🛹🏄🏼‍♂️). Kathleen is my beloved. 🥰 The outdoors is literally a religious experience for me. Oh, talking God-bothering, that’s kinda my neurodiverse hyper-fixation: the transfiguring-nonviolent-liberating-love revealed in Jesus.

That’s lead to some award winning nonviolent trouble-making, a popular podcast with Dr Drew Hart (https://www.patreon.com/InVerse), and other stuff you can checkout here: https://jarrodmckenna.com

#theology: A very Jesus-y #ecojustice cocktail of #Hesychasm #Anabaptism #CatholicWorker #IndigenousTheology non-Marxist #ChristianSocialism #Quakerism #BlackChurch and charismania expressed in #Contemplative prayer, creative
#nonviolence and #solidarity.

So let’s collaborate in what John Lewis called, “good trouble”. 😊

I am an author, writing about Quakers, Theology, & the Bible. I am #Quaker minister and educator. I work at #GuilfordCollege in #Greensboro, NC w my wife & our children.

I have been blogging since 2000 on Xanga & have been active in building online community on many platforms.

My interests are around #Fandom, Participatory Culture, #ChristianSocialism, #QuakerStudies, #Remix, #OpenWeb, #LiberationTheology, & the #PoorPeoplesCampaign.

I enjoy Music, time w my family & riding my motorcycle.