📧 to Hauerwas, Kalantzis

Stanley and George,

I'm writing as a professional courtesy to notify you that I've published a blog post that names you both in a public critique of what I'm calling "liturgical theater"—the fourteen-year pattern of civilian theologians prescribing "services of lament for our complicity" while maintaining the very institutional structures that produce veteran exclusion from theological authority.

The post is here: https://pewpewhq.com/trng/lament-liturgical-theater

I don't expect replies, and that expectation matters. In the virtue ethics tradition you've both championed, character and speech must cohere. Words spoken only between abuser and victim, shielded from public accountability, serve a private god of entitlement—one that permits homologia (confession) without metanoia (conversion), lament without structural change.

My God is a public God. Perhaps the only truly public God. And this is me pitting that God against yours to see which one can deliver believers from injustice and which one requires darkness to survive.

If you believe your own diagnosis of complicity, you'll prove it structurally. If your lament is theater, your silence will demonstrate it.

Here's to a fair fight.

- brother logan, HoSM