Rowland Croucher
America’s White Working Class
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 10/1/2012 The White Working Class — Martin E. Marty Sightings lives week by week. In my other life as an historian for sixty years I have lived by 250 and 500 year chunks of American life. My colleagues and I know […]
First Trio “Married” in The Netherlands
From the desk of Paul Belien on Mon, 2005-09-26 23:08 The Netherlands and Belgium were the first countries to give full marriage rights to homosexuals. In the United States some politicians propose ¢â‚¬Å“civil unions ¢â‚¬ that give homosexual couples the full benefits and responsibilities of marriage. These civil unions differ from marriage only in name. Meanwhile in the […]
TEXAS BEER JOINT SUES LOCAL CHURCH OVER LIGHTNING STRIKE!
(This should keep you chuckling for awhile) A bar called Drummond’s (in Mt Vernon, Texas ) began construction on an expansion of their building, hoping to “grow” their business. In response, the local Southern Baptist Church started a campaign to block the bar from expanding – petitions, prayers, etc. About a week before the bar’s […]
The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex is Too Important to Define Who We Are
Review: Jenell Williams Paris: The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex is Too Important to Define Who We Are (IVPress, large-print edition, 2011). As a (‘straight’) advocate for my homosexual friends and clients part of my job is to read/discern ¢â‚¬Ëœwho ¢â‚¬â„¢s saying what to whom ¢â‚¬â„¢ about gender and sexuality issues. Together with the world-wide turmoil […]
Syria: Quo Vadis? (September 26, 2012)
¢â‚¬ËœNo one to hand power to in Syria ¢â‚¬â„¢ by Michael Jansen | Sep 26, 2012 | 22:35 The citizens of Benghazi who raised the flag of revolt in 2011 are driving Salafist militiamen out of their city as Turkey is funnelling Salafist, jihadist and Al Qaeda fighters into Syria. The post-Qadhafi multiplicity of militias of […]
Dog’s Diary vs Cat’s Diary :-)
The Dog’s Diary 8:00 am – Dog food! My favorite thing! 9:30 am – A car ride! My favorite thing! 9:40 am – A walk in the park! My favorite thing! 10:30 am – Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing! 12:00 pm – Milk bones! My favorite thing! 1:00 pm – Played in […]
Random Wisdom :-)
Some wisdom I heard for the first time recently (not in order of significance): * Kangaroos can’t walk backwards * ‘We will settle for disorder in lesser things for the sake of order in greater things, and therefore be content to be discontented about…. ‘ [From the GROW handbook – a self-help ministry for/by those […]
A Survival Plan for Syria’s Christians
September 25, 2012 By Basem Shabb The Daily Star As civil war engulfs Syria leaving a tragic stalemate, the fate of Christians in the country hangs in the balance. The Vatican and others have addressed the condition of the Christian community in the Arab world, not only in Syria but also in the Levant in […]
Henri Nouwen: Daily Meditations
Called out of Slavery The Church is the people of God. The Latin word for “church,” ecclesia, comes from the Greek ek, which means “out,” and kaleo, which means “to call.” The Church is the people of God called out of slavery to freedom, sin to salvation, despair to hope, darkness to light, an existence […]
Richard Rohr: Daily Meditations
MYSTICAL LOVE FRANCISCAN MYSTICISM ~~ The two adjectives most applied to God by Franciscan mysticism were goodness and humility. Hardly any of us would think to call God humble, but Francis did. He fell in love with the humility of God because if God emptied himself and hid himself inside the material world as in Jesus, and waits […]
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