slavoj zizek | cornel west | alain badiou @ princeton university

I think this is a core question for the emerging church. Some seem to think that as long as there is personal freedom from the distortions of the modern church then all is well. I wish I could have been present to hear Cornel West’s perspective.

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He is challenging us to to move beyond rhetoric to real reform. To realize the plight that still exists for the poor and disenfranchised who are exiles in America. He articulates in typical West fashion the failure of all segments of society to see with eyes of compassion the condition of the least and mount a meaningful

Bush talks about God, but he has forgotten the point of prophetic Christianity is compassion and justice for those who have least. Hip-hop has the anger that comes out of post-industrial, free-market America, but it lacks the progressiveness that produces organisations that will threaten the status quo. There has not been a giant since King, someone prepared to die and create an insurgency where many are prepared to die to upset the corporate elite. The Democrats are spineless.

I think it is time to answer the call to not just talk about the plight of others but to act. To learn to live beyond ourselves in spite of our own brokenness. To  sign the pledge. take up the mission not because it is PC but because it is the mission  Jesus said he came to fulfill and calls us to embrace.  Luke 4:17-19. To act not because we have to but because we must, if we are to be the followers of Jesus we must.

God help us to be the people we were created to be.

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