Jesus at Occupy Wall Street: ‘I feel like I’ve been here before’On a very related note, Tuesday's lecture in my Hebrew Bible class was on the eighth-century prophets: Amos, Hosea, (first) Isaiah, and Micah. For a little background: we're talking the 8th century BCE here, during which time the Assyrians conquered the very wealthy and well-off ( Read more... )

So by now you have perhaps heard of the new Mountain Goats album, The Life of the World to Come. I purchased it on faith and basically haven't stopped listening to it since, so I can't recommend it enough. (Just go and get this and Matthew Good's Vancouver, and keep jumping back and forth between the two depending on how much bopping you want to do ( Read more... )