The Christian Century

This spring, the most interesting question for me about the Occupy movement isn't whether it will find focus or whether it will revive or whether it will make a difference in the election. What I want to pay attention to is the ongoing and generative outpouring of creative politics.

The Occupy movement is rich in unedited signs. In my mind, creative placarding will forever be its legacy.

After glancing at recent headlines and listening to rumors, I was under the impression that the Chicago City Council had passed repressive new restrictions on protests leading up to the G8 summit in May. The newspapers' pictures of Mayor Rahm Emanuel looked dictatorial. I pictured Emanuel strong-arming the council into passing a crackdown.

A lot of people didn't like Tony Perkins' CNN Belief Blog post last week, and rightly so. Jesus was a free marketer, long before the concept was developed? Sure, if you say so.

Tuesday's speech was the most fired up and the readiest to go that we've seen Obama in a good long while.

If you want to read interesting on-the-ground reporting on the Occupy movement, you could do a lot worse than following Ezra Silk. The young writer--son of academic and religion blogger extraordinaire Mark Silk--has been traveling around to different protests and covering them from within.

This video started making the rounds last week, presenting a clever idea for communicating with the big banks at their expense.

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly's latest stories include an overview of the religious presence at the Occupy Wall Street protests at Zuccotti Park in New York.

The other day I left the office around lunchtime and walked over to the Occupy Chicago gathering outside the Board of Trade. At the corner waiting for the light to change, I stood next to a protest drummer who fit the stereotype well: unshorn, unkempt and not much over 20.