Excellent piece on Hamilton and the competing theologies of America. Do you know Richard Rohr's Jesus' Alternative Plan: The Sermon on the Mount? I'm leading discussion of it in Faith and Fiction on June 22. Love to have you join us, in person or via zoom. His description of Jesus' intentions and your theology are highly congruent, I'm sure you know. You're such an inspiration to this old economist and countless others I'm sure!
Thank you Len. I know Rohr’s work well but not familiar with the Alternative Plan. Will have to look in to it. I appreciate so much your support in these first few weeks on Substack.
This is one of the clearest exorcisms of American civil religion I’ve read in ages. You’ve laid bare the sacred rot behind the myth of national chosenness—how we swapped beatitudes for battle hymns and mistook empire for gospel. The theater of Hamilton baptizes the founding fathers with such reverence you’d think they walked on water instead of signing off on stolen land and stolen bodies.
As Virgin Monk Boy likes to say, "If Jesus flipped tables at the Temple, imagine what he'd do at a Presidential Prayer Breakfast." There’s nothing holy about manifest destiny in drag. But there is something holy in the people who rise up singing justice, marching barefoot toward liberation, guided not by flags but by fire.
We don’t need to burn the story down—we need to rewrite it. One where chosenness is replaced by chosenness-for—the responsibility to love, not dominate. Where greatness looks like footwashing, not flag-waving.
Brilliant work. You’re preaching resurrection theology in a tomb built by myths. Keep going.
Excellent piece on Hamilton and the competing theologies of America. Do you know Richard Rohr's Jesus' Alternative Plan: The Sermon on the Mount? I'm leading discussion of it in Faith and Fiction on June 22. Love to have you join us, in person or via zoom. His description of Jesus' intentions and your theology are highly congruent, I'm sure you know. You're such an inspiration to this old economist and countless others I'm sure!
Thank you Len. I know Rohr’s work well but not familiar with the Alternative Plan. Will have to look in to it. I appreciate so much your support in these first few weeks on Substack.
This is one of the clearest exorcisms of American civil religion I’ve read in ages. You’ve laid bare the sacred rot behind the myth of national chosenness—how we swapped beatitudes for battle hymns and mistook empire for gospel. The theater of Hamilton baptizes the founding fathers with such reverence you’d think they walked on water instead of signing off on stolen land and stolen bodies.
As Virgin Monk Boy likes to say, "If Jesus flipped tables at the Temple, imagine what he'd do at a Presidential Prayer Breakfast." There’s nothing holy about manifest destiny in drag. But there is something holy in the people who rise up singing justice, marching barefoot toward liberation, guided not by flags but by fire.
We don’t need to burn the story down—we need to rewrite it. One where chosenness is replaced by chosenness-for—the responsibility to love, not dominate. Where greatness looks like footwashing, not flag-waving.
Brilliant work. You’re preaching resurrection theology in a tomb built by myths. Keep going.
—Virgin Monk Boy 🕊️🔥✊
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