March 2012
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Druidical Capitalism and Satanists Who Sound Like... →
Silly Satanists. We are far better at worshipping your god than you will ever be.
Yep.
February 2012
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something,...”
– Richard Buckminster Fuller (via sabbatical)
“Even now, after centuries of reductionist propaganda, the world is still...”
– Wendell Berry, from In Distrust of Movements (via sabbatical)
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“Most of us, whatever our stand on preserving the lives of the thoughtlessly...”
– Wendell Berry, “The Failure of War”
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Believable | Storied Theology →
They are the “plausibility structures” that provide us with the scaffolding we need to integrate what we experience with what we believe. Given the right plausibility structure, the belief that the earth is under 10,000 years old becomes largely self-evident, the clear grid for assessing every piece of scientific data. Given the right plausibility structure, and the belief that the earth is 4.5...
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CS Lewis: Footnote To All Prayers
He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow When I attempt the ineffable Name, murmuring Thou, And dream of Pheidian fancies and embrace in heart Symbols (I know) which cannot be the thing Thou art. Thus always, taken at their word, all prayers blaspheme Worshipping with frail images a folk-lore dream, And all men in their praying, self-deceived, address The coinage of their own unquiet...
Goodbye, Whitney... →
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright,...”
– Banksy (via wetbehindthears)
January 2012
13 posts
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Best Beers of the United States 2012 →
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BBC News - Why conservative Christians flock to a... →
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WatchJon Stewart at his absolute best.
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“…an atheist reading of Christianity is not about polite rituals and ‘big...”
– Kester Brewin » Religion for Atheists | Atheism for the Religious…
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Plight of 13-year-old girl sold for sex in West... →
In Michigan, trafficking laws were strengthened last year with longer prison terms.
However, Grand Rapids Police Lt. Richard Nawrocki with the vice squad said they aren’t seeing the volume of human trafficking through the area that Wedgwood is suggesting. The offenders they arrest for prostitution are from the area, he said.
“We could be missing something, but I think this would...
There is Power in the Blog » Newt Gingrich and... →
What Gingrich’s inflammatory comments regarding child labor laws suggest is that he understands human flourishing in a rather truncated way. For him, the virtue of industry serves the purpose of making us productive parts within a global economic structure, one which is fundamentally unjust because it functions to create and sustain systemic forms of poverty in an increasing number of its...
There is Power in the Blog » The Catholic Case... →
Catholic politicians across the spectrum will all find aspects of Church teaching that challenge their ideological agendas in discomforting ways. But for too long Catholics in public life have only been scrutinized when it comes to abortion and same-sex marriage. This does a disservice to voters, ignores the Catholic social justice tradition’s broad moral agenda and lets Catholic candidates like...
“Why are we all concerned about arriving at death safely?”
– Christine Caine, Passion 2012 (via smileatthecorners)
This.
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the12 | James Bratt | Bachmann Back to Kuyper? →
I guess if logic rates low, we can understand the links of Bachmann to Kuyper. Otherwise, not.
Only a couple hundred words. But so freaking good.
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“The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.”
– Richard Rohr.
Good thought for a new year.
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WatchThis is what the Gospel looks like.
December 2011
15 posts
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Worshipping a Flying Teapot? What to Do When... →
This is required reading.
“The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus...”
– Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith and Revolution
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“Let us not do Hitchens the injustice of wishing him eternal peace. Let’s...”
– Fors Clavigera: In Memory of Christopher Hitchens
It’s nice to see one Christian writer who will show him as much respect.
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American Christians and the death penalty | NT... →
You can’t reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world. As far as they were concerned, their stance went along with the traditional ancient Jewish and Christian belief in life as a gift from God, which is why (for instance)...
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions”
– G.K. Chesterton (via benghini)
“One cannot speak of God simply by speaking of man in a loud voice.”
– Karl Barth (via invisibleforeigner)
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Flavorwire » The 25 Most Beautiful College... →
Pitts Theology Library at Emory is included in Flavorwire’s 25 most beautiful libraries in the world. About to go there to work on my New Year’s Day sermon. No big deal.
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In learning how to wait as a people of nonviolence in a world of war, you’ll know what Advent is. Advent is patience. It’s how God has made us a people of promise in a world of impatience. And Christ has made that possible—for us to live, patiently, in a world of impatience.
“If one who takes the clothing off another is called a thief, why give any other...”
– Basil the Great
November 2011
27 posts
Patagonia – The Cleanest Line: Don't Buy This... →
minimalmac:
Nothing about the Mac. Everything about what we believe in.
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“All that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution,...”
– C. S. Lewis (via shesaloverofchrist)
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“The doctrine of revelation affirms, especially in the thought of Barth, that in...”
– John Howard Yoder
“The Pacifism of Karl Barth,” Karl Barth and the Problem of War.
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“The most unfortunate aspect of this misreading, as Driscoll’s comment...”
– Revelation and the Violent “Prize Fighting” Jesus » Blog » Greg Boyd (Christus Victor Ministries)
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