[lbo-talk] The conversion of Joel Kovel

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 08:12:55 PDT 2012


Those into politics-and-religion stuff might find something of interest in this long, long interview by Philip Weiss of anti-Zionist and ecosocialist Joel Kovel about his recent conversion from secular Judaism to Episcopalianism at the age of 75:

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/09/the-conversion-of-joel-kovel-part-1.html http://mondoweiss.net/2012/09/the-conversion-of-joel-kovel-part-2.html

I can see how he and Rev. Earl Koopercamp, who's both a dyed-in-the-wool red and a Kentucky firebrand, hit it off. But this bursting-into-tears business might draw a more nervous reception from "God's frozen people" in other parishes.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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