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Reverend Oliver Buie - faith and environmentalism

Urban Oil Drilling and the Intersection Between Faith and Environmentalism

November 20, 2019 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

On Episode 45 of EcoJustice Radio our guest Reverend Oliver Buie, Minister of Community Engagement at the Holman United Methodist Church in South Los Angeles, speaks with Jessica Aldridge on the important relationship between faith and environmentalism and what his parish has been doing to promote environmental and social justice in their community.

As a member of the Steering Committee of STAND-LA, he speaks to the environmental justice movement to institute a 2,500-foot health and safety buffer between oil drilling and where people live, in particular motivated by the Murphy Oil Drilling site near his South Los Angeles church.

Mysteries

Aleister Crowley’s Secret Society of Magick and Excess

July 24, 2017 by Jack Eidt 3 comments

Self-promoted as the “Great Beast 666″ from the Bible’s Book of Revelations. Slandered by the British press as the “Wickedest Man in the World.” Yet, theatrical occultist Aleister Crowley pioneered a radical re-imagining of self determination through managing paranormal spiritual entities, shaking up early 20th Century polite society. He founded the libertine religion of Thelema, and through sex rituals and extreme drug abuse emphasized the not-necessarily-wicked ritual practice of Magick.

Film

Film: Carlos Reygadas Meditates on the Mennonites of Mexico

February 6, 2016 by The Outpost 2 comments

Carlos Reygadas, the Mexican surrealistic filmmaker known for confounding audiences with somnolent landscapes and stark visions of humanity melding among the wily breeze, the flow of a silent river, and the meander of children wandering through tall grass. He has created a subtle masterpiece with his 2007 film Silent Light.

Sound, Visual Art

German Composer’s Paean to a Healing Work of Renaissance Art

March 18, 2015 by The Outpost 2 comments

One of the 20th Century’s most influential composers, Paul Hindemith created the neo-classical-folk-inspired symphony Mathis der Maler, based on the life of the mysterious 16th Century painter Matthias Grunewald, whose masterpiece associated Saint Anthony and the Virgin Mary with the miraculous cure of the epidemic skin disease called St. Anthony’s Fire.

Rituals and Traditions

Spring Equinox, the Eostre Bunny, and Other Wiccan Mysteries

April 2, 2013 by The Outpost 2 comments

Eostre – the Germanic goddess of dawn and fertility, whose name gives us the word Easter – must be pleased. Two millennia of Christianity, and she has yet to be displaced from our annual celebration of fecundity. Easter eggs, representing birth, nod to both pagan and Christian traditions.

Film

Ingmar Bergman: A Tenuous Searching Faith in “The Seventh Seal”

January 22, 2013 by Jack Eidt 4 comments

The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in Sweden during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death, who has come to take his life.

Tag: Christianity

Urban Oil Drilling and the Intersection Between Faith and Environmentalism

Aleister Crowley’s Secret Society of Magick and Excess

Film: Carlos Reygadas Meditates on the Mennonites of Mexico

German Composer’s Paean to a Healing Work of Renaissance Art

Spring Equinox, the Eostre Bunny, and Other Wiccan Mysteries

Ingmar Bergman: A Tenuous Searching Faith in “The Seventh Seal”