{"id":7126,"date":"2011-01-11T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=7126"},"modified":"2011-01-12T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T16:59:24","slug":"cornel-west-on-the-late-late-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/cornel-west-on-the-late-late-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornel West on the Late Late Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4385\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/653px-cornel_west_utah_2008-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"Cornel West via Wikipedia\" title=\"Cornel West via Wikipedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4385\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/653px-cornel_west_utah_2008-300x275.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/653px-cornel_west_utah_2008.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cornel West via Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I shared this video with my dear friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnylaird.net\">Johnny Laird<\/a> on Twitter yesterday and thought it was well worth sharing here on the blog as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a Christian, so I do think he&#8217;s wrong&#8230; but I do love the challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PBXnbIUm12o\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some great points from Dr. West.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a difference between rational certainty and blessed assurance&#8230; blessed assurance is making a leap of faith, stepping out on nothing and landing on something.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;There&#8217;s always an element of doubt &#8212; even in your faith &#8212; because it&#8217;s not all about you. You are acknowledging something greater than you. Like falling in love&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I make despair and catastrophe constant companions&#8230; I just don&#8217;t allow despair to have the last word.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ours is in the trying &#8211; the rest is not my business (TS Elliot)&#8230; I&#8217;m just gonna love my way through the darkness and the rest is not my business. Divine power kicks in, grace kicks in and the rest you just don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Dr. Martin Luther) King was basically like you and I &#8212; a cracked-vessel &#8212; trying to love his crooked neighbor with his crooked heart &#8212; but he did it in such a way with sense of humility and keept track of those typically rendered invisible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Religion I&#8217;m talking about is maladjusted to greed &#8212; concerned about fairness &#8212; maladjusted to indifference &#8212; concerned about compassion &#8212; and maladjusted to fear &#8212; instead it&#8217;s courageous and tries to be hopeful so it looks fear in the face and keeps moving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great stuff!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts after watching the video?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smileyandwest.ning.com\/forum\/topics\/a-listener-takes-dr-west-to-3\">West talks more about being a &#8220;cracked-vessel&#8221; on his NPR program.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(HT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildgoosefestival.org\/2010\/11\/12\/becoming-more-human-with-gareth-higgins\/\">Garreth Higgins<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shared this video with my dear friend Johnny Laird on Twitter yesterday and thought it was well worth sharing here on the blog as well. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Christian, so I do think he&#8217;s wrong&#8230; but I do love the challenge.&#8221; Some great points from Dr. West. &#8220;There is a difference between rational certainty and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/cornel-west-on-the-late-late-show\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cornel West on the Late Late Show<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1153,1929,3968,3967,556,2306],"class_list":["post-7126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-compassion","tag-cornel-west","tag-craig-ferguson","tag-late-late-show","tag-religion","tag-social-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1QW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}