Curitiba, Brazil, with average per capita yearly income of less than $4,000, is one of the world’s great cities, saith Bill McKibbon
New bus lanes planned for Wellington
Burnt-out vicars, disfunctional fish, not caring, and systems thinking [via Debbie/CD]
A Friedman Fable: The Bridge [60KB PDF]
Summary of the Friedman model
Greenwich village, revolution, gospel
More Yoder, from “Civil Religion in America”, from The Priestly Kingdom:
… If the God-reference of civil religion is inward or upward, it provides no effective leverage for critique or transformation. The God-language of the Bible does not point inward to the renewed heart alone, nor upward to the “higher power”, nor forward to the “hereafter”, but backward to the salvation story, outward to the claims of the rest of the world, the enemies to love and the slaves to free, and forward to a city not of our own making. Of these it is the historical reference from which we stand to learn the most. … The transcendence that counts is not a power from beyond that is now leashed to favor us, but the affirmation of values beyond our control to which we are committed, calling us to be ministers of peace and of justice above, beyond, and maybe even against our own interest. …
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I must read this book.
I think Geoff wanted it next but you can have it after him if you like.
That doesn’t sound like Yoda. Where’s the bit about light sabers?