In Defense of Colonization
A week or so ago, I got a message on Twitter from my Twitter friend "Egregious Philbin," asking me for my thoughts on an pair of articles from J. R. Daniel Kirk, entitled "Colonizing Biblical Interpretation" and "Oedipus Text: Canon, Creed, and Post-Colonized Interpretation." They are both interesting articles, and I have wanted to write about them for a while, but I wanted to finish the post on the Cult of Victimhood before turning to these articles (for reasons that will become clear in a moment). I should say that I have enjoy listening to and reading Kirk, especially during his appearances on the Homebrewed Christianity podcast. I have also said how I often feel like I have more in common with progressive Evangelicals than I do with conservative Catholics . Reading these posts, however, was a reminder that this is not always the case, as it immediately brought out the "high church" part of my Christian DNA. To me, these posts show t...