Friday, January 20, 2006

And all of you have seen the dance

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RMJ: I find myself, as I attend a United Church of Christ weekly, increasingly gentle in my lack of belief. I have little patience for the d...

"They will trample on the grass...."

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Continuing the conversation : For the older churches it is the forgiveness of sins, a mystical participation in the death and resurrection o...
Tuesday, January 17, 2006

To speak of many things

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Well, this is disturbing. There's a certain amount of hyperbole involved in Mr. Brant's musings ("President Jeb Bush....Presid...

"When all your lives were free"

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Continuing the conversation that started here , and drifted here . To this post at Street Prophets, I posted this response: I must admit I...
Monday, January 16, 2006

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

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April 4, 1967, Riverside Church. Any part of it. All of it. Remember today that Dr. King was about much more than "I have a dream....
Sunday, January 15, 2006

Έπιφάναι τοϊς έν σκότει

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What follows are notes from a lecture I gave this morning. I was asked a month ago to teach the class, and came up with this idea of the ...
Saturday, January 14, 2006

That all my priests have passed

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I was having a discussion with a friend at the bookstore last night, recounting some of the more frightening encounters with people I'd ...

Ahistory Lessons

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Returning to the question of history : Monday, December 8, was Franklin Roosevelt's day. On the bridge leading to the Lincoln Memorial a...

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. It gives others power over you.

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Never let reality get in the way of a good scare campaign. Received this as an e-mail this morning. As you know – the pledge of allegiance i...

And who will write love songs for you....?

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I've been wanting to post an intelligent response to this comment ever since it was made, but I'm beginning to doubt my ability to d...
Friday, January 13, 2006

Noted only for the irony

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Will The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops be considered " religious leaders ," like Pat Robertson and Dr. James Dobson? Or will...

Woodsman, spare that law!

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Sir Thomas More: There's no law against that. William Roper : God's law! Sir Thomas More: Then God can arrest him. William Roper: Wh...
Thursday, January 12, 2006

Here Come Da Judge!

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The Alito hearings are stirring my atrophied legal muscles . And it occurs to me that the concept of "unconstitutional," one linke...

"I just wonder when we're going to 'start taking sin seriously again.' "

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This, as pastordan points out , is the crux of the issue. At one time "evangelicals" especially were mostly concerned with sin. It...
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

"Should I lead? Should I follow? Won't you say, 'Come with Me?' "

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Coming back to this topic : RMJ, To what extent do you think this hunt for "leaders"--faces for the movement--a function of discom...

An "Open Mind" Gathers No Controversy

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The press reports today are all about how "well" Samuel Alito handled the questions put to him yesterday. Maybe that has to do wi...
Tuesday, January 10, 2006

History Lesson

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The stories we like to tell ourselves about history, are about men and women taking responsibility for their actions, and for our present (t...
Monday, January 09, 2006

The Business of American Religion is Business--Calvin Coolidge

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Admittedly I am wandering into Metacomments territory here, but this entry at the CBSblog is related to a discussion that started here , a...

Epiphany

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January 6th; the "twelfth" day of Christmas. Observed by most churches (I suspect), yesterday. "Epiphany" comes from t...