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tink tinker is the best name ever

carl, i enjoyed your post about anti-racism, and your response to tim’s message on TameTheMONSTER.org. interesting stuff.

i’m taking Liberation Theologies with Keith Graber Miller right now, and it’s incredible. how much James Cone have you read? or Gutierrez (who might be coming to talk to our class next week)? there are a lot of things that would be interesting to talk about, but my main point was just to mention that i’m writing a research paper on Native American (Liberation?) Theology, and i’ve been reading Tinker’s Missionary Conquest as well as Spirit and Resistance and A Native American Theology. what a great writer. i had a wonderful conversation with him about the war in iraq (and a little about your work at the oglala lakota nation) last fall when he was speaking here on campus. oh, and he can go for hours on columbus day…

i watched the movie hidalgo last night. bad move. i don’t know if i’m just becoming much more aware because of my Liberation Theologies class (which deals with racism, sexism, classism etc. as much as anything else), or if it really is one of the most racist movie in the world. on the plus side, i think viggo mortensen is ruggedly handsome. on the down side, it’s clear that all arabs and muslims (which are one and the same) are evil and mean, and everyone wants to be a cowboy. ugh.

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2 Responses to “tink tinker is the best name ever”

  1. carl Says:

    May 18th, 2006 at 9:52 pm

    Everything I’ve read of Tinker’s is great. Missionary Conquest is the only one I have and read through, but I picked up Spirit and Resistance at a house I was visiting and the first chapter was superb.

    I’ve been wondering if I should see Hidalgo. It was filmed out here. Guess I won’t.

    What did you tell Tinker about our work out here?

  2. jonny Says:

    May 18th, 2006 at 10:07 pm

    I read Tinker’s A Native American Theology, which he wrote along with Clara Sue Kidwell and Homer Noley, two other Native American theologians/academics. It was a very quick read, and rather interesting. There were some definite things missing, in my opinion, but we can talk more about that after you read my paper.

    Hidalgo probably wasn’t as bad as I made it sound. I mean, it was entertaining, but frustrating. Relatively predictable. Luckily the evil Arabs were mostly redeemed in the end when the American won the race. Oops, sorry to spoil the ending.

    I mentioned to Tink that you lived out there and worked with MCC, and he knew of MCC and said he really liked what he knew of their work. I told him of your (at that time) recent visit through Goshen with Richard Ironcloud and others, and he said that Richard is a friend of his. It wasn’t an extensive conversation, and it quickly shifted to the war in Iraq.