Rowland Croucher
The Church As Museum, Academy and Service Center
Harry T. Cook 11/28/08 The church as an institution is required in most local settings to be all things to all people. Likewise are the church’s clergy. What results often enough are a number of unrelated tasks not done particularly well by people minimally trained in too many things so that none of them gets […]
Pastors’ Wives
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The Power of Alcohol
A man is waiting for his wife to give birth. The doctor comes in and informs the dad that his son was born without torso, arms or legs. The son is just a head! But the dad loves his son and raises him as well as he can, with love and compassion. After 21 years, […]
Politics and Inerrancy
*Sightings* 11/24/08 — Martin E. Marty “From a perspective committed to the Bible as the inerrant Word of God,” the biweekly glossy *World* (November 15/22) asks at almost issue-length what went wrong with the Republicans in the recent elections. To the editors’ credit, they do not spend much space in a blame game on what […]
Show and Tell
A kindergarten teacher gave her class a “show and tell” assignment. Each student was instructed to bring in an object to share with the class that represented their religion. The first student got up in front of the class and said, “My name is Benjamin and I am Jewish and this is a Star of […]
Special Thanksgiving Essay (Brilliant!)
Special Thanksgiving Essay Philosophy of Abundance Harry T. Cook 11/25/08 “When thou cuttest down thine harvest in the field, and hast forgot a sheaf, thou shalt not go again to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless and for the widow . . .” (Deuteronomy 24:19) Having just finished an article […]
Better Health for Religiously Observant
By ERIC NAGOURNEY Published: November 24, 2008 Many people believe that going to religious services may be good for the afterlife. But researchers have found that it may not be so bad in the here and now. A new study, which followed the health of more than 90,000 women over an average of more than […]
Accredited Creation Scientists
The number of accredited Creationist Scientists, arguing from their accredited domains, is minuscule… If they were to receive an amount of time in the classroom proportional to their representation, they would barely get a sentence of mention. For example, I previously showed, that of the 15,000 professional astronomers world wide, none are Creation Scientists, not […]
Advent (By Daniel Berrigan)
As the Advent season approaches, the season of hope where we look forward to the return of Christ in all his fullness, I offer this poem by Fr. Daniel Berrigan. May it enrich your Advent season. Advent By Daniel Berrigan It is not true that creation and the human family are doomed to destruction and […]
Violence and passivity
I think of the two extremes that are operating here as violence and passivity (I still think some people have nonviolence in the passivity category despite my repeated emphasis that it is not). I think nonviolence IS the middle ground. Like violence it is an active force, but like passivity it doesn’t seek to hurt […]
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