Archive for April 8th, 2009

I have decided that Stanley Hauerwas is the “Shaquille O’Neal of Theology” [don’t try to steal that! I coined it!]. We love to put a microphone in front of his face because we can’t wait to hear what he’ll say. He’s a great sound bite! I will put some quotes (aren’t direct quotes) that I tweeted (26% of you won’t know what that means, and another 26% won’t know what I was referring to here) during epiphenia’s The Evolving Church: Amidst the Powers conference. I tweeted during his workshop and the plenary session.  

 

Here are my tweets (read from bottom-up for chronological order):

 

# Hauerwas: I wish I could get evangelicals to be more eucharistic, then God would have a better shot at killing them #ep09 …hahaha2:55 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# RT @tg24: (Hauerwas) We were not created to kill one another, we were created to commune with each other. #ep092:47 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: by the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, war was abolished.2:45 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: The Christian alternative to war is worship. #ep092:39 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

 

# RT @tg24: Grossman noted that some soldiers have more intimacy with each other after killing than they do with their wives #ep092:30 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: Killing is a more intimate act than sex #ep092:28 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: Eisenhower at West Point grad: “I now belong to the flag.” If u want to know what giving into the powers looks like, that’s it.2:25 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: We (Texans) are natural born killers. Southerners want to kill so much that we killed in WWI for the Yankees (Northeners). #ep092:21 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# RT @tg24: What would the pacifists do if they got a world in which they wanted? #ep09 …great question!2:17 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: War is the alternative Church. #ep092:13 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# RT @tg24: Hauerwas Everyone professes that war is horrible but we continue to have war #ep092:12 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: when was the last time you went to see a movie about peace? War’s gripped our imagination. #ep092:08 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: (on “just war”) if war is not “just,” what is it? We might as well call it slaughter. #ep092:07 PM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

 Plenary Session (above) and Workshop (below)

# Hauerwas: want to know the ethics of ministry? Don’t lie. And if you must know, not lying is a difficult enterprise to take on. #ep0911:44 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: (disagree w sermons?) I say How could u? It was the Word of God. Where did u get the idea that u get to make up ur own mind? #ep0911:30 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: God is killing the Church in industrialized nations, and we [darn] well deserve it. #ep0911:26 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# …that’s moral transformation! #ep0911:24 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: when a med student says, Well, I don’t care about such and such procedure, they say tough [crap]. Do it or get out…11:23 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: we see a poorly trained priest/pastor as not as threatening to the soul as a poorly trained doctor to a patient #ep0911:17 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: when children come to divinity school, which u know u aren’t children but just some1 who failed at another line of work. ha! #ep0911:13 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: by being part of the Church, you get a new being #ep0911:04 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: the Church is an alternative to war, the culture of death #ep0911:03 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: the first task of the Church is not to make the world just but make the world, the world #ep0911:02 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: medicine desires to help people get out of life (death) alive11:01 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: world’s story - u have no story except the story u chose when u had no story. X-ians - we have a story that we enter into #ep0910:59 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: when you raise children to make up their own minds, they go crazy (he’s full of great soundbites) #ep0910:56 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas: (when you die) you don’t want to be a burden bc you don’t trust your children…ha! #ep0910:50 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon

   

# Hauerwas starts: how would you like to die? #ep0910:49 AM Mar 21st from TwitterFon