Comments on: Colossians Remixed 2

By: David Esdaile

David Esdaile — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:49:56 +0000

I'm just about to start reading Colossians Remixed. I only just found your amazing blog, so I'm probably too late to make a comment, but one book that I found helpful was Gregory Boyd's Myth of a Christian Nation.

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:01:00 +0000

Melly, you are right and the authors actually make that point as well. (they aren't American themselves). But I think that in America it has become the whole packaged deal. Politics and corporations go hand in hand and to question one is to question the other.

By: gerbmom

gerbmom — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:02:00 +0000

OK – I'm ordering the book…..

By: Miz Melly

Miz Melly — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:34:00 +0000

Julie, great post. I haven't had the chance to read the book but am going to order it as soon as I can. The whole concept of empires and powers isn't just limited to countries. I think the new empires are in fact multi national corporations. At the Francois Houtart seminars I went to back in February he talked about capitalism as a system of death. I know it's dangerous in one way but we could think of the capitalist system as an empire rather than placing the blame squarely on a nation. It is easier then to recognise the church's complicity in a system of oppression and to focus on ways to resist it. It becomes less about fighting your own nation and more about resisting a global system – although that might be scarier but then you have the support of the the global church in resisting a system of oppression. Hope this makes sense…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:08:00 +0000

Interesting and stimulating blog. You might enjoy Googling "Pretrib Rapture Diehards" which stimulated me when I read it recently. And "Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism" is another catchy one also. Lord bless.
Marge