Monday, May 17, 2010
Escobar on New Men and Social Change
"In the past they told us not to worry about changing society because what we need is to change men. New men will change society. But when the new men begin to worry about changing society, they are told not to worry, that the world has always been bad, that we await new heavens and a new earth and that this world is condemned to destruction. Why try to make it better? What's even worse is that those who teach this are the ones who enjoy all the advantages that this passing world offers, and they passionately defend them whenever they are endangered."

~Samuel Escobar in Is Revolution Change?

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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Walker Cleaveland's "Brief History of Presbymergent"
Thanks to Adam Walker Cleaveland for highlighting (and hosting a pdf version of) my ginormous paper on Presbymergent and Mainline Emergence in his latest post at Pomomusings. He says it inspired him to write more about Presbymergent himself, a "brief" history, which I can only assume is in contrast to my 50-page monstrosity :)

At any rate, I'm looking forward to reading more of his reflections. Check it out.

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