anyone familiar with this guy? he manages to be both a Presbyterian and a Communist (large-C, I'd venture to say) with an obvious nostalgia for 20th-century really-existing socialism. he's written books with titles such as
Lenin, Religion, and Theology,
Jameson and Jeroboam, and
Political Grace: The Revolutionary Theology of John Calvin.
in addition he keeps a blog called Stalin's MOUSTACHE.
https://stalinsmoustache.wordpress.com/it's quite an act to try to wrap one's head around though I am sure a lot of it cannot help but be interested, if only because of how many great minds have been poured into both Christianity and Marxism respectively, a syncretism of the two will have its bright spots.
I'll also add that I can't help but think at least some of it is tongue-in-cheek. as a for-instance, his most recent post lauds post-Soviet Belarus, which is fine in and of itself, but when a critical commenter chimes in Boer has only this to say:
"Deane, you are a hopeless mouthpiece for propaganda from the World Bank and IMF. Here’s to authoritarian communism." which would be a poor showing for a 15 year old on RevLeft, a standard Boer himself clearly can outclass with the slightest effort.
