Rowland Croucher
Getting Religion Wrong
Sightings 3/12/07 Getting Religion Wrong — Martin E. Marty In 1970, as remembered in a story I’ve (too?) often told, for my sins I became associate dean at a Divinity School. Dean Joseph Kitagawa, scholar supreme and human being to match, did not like to raise money — so he equipped me with a tin […]
Food laws
To lighten whatever load … A rabbi who loved his food had always been curious about the tight restrictions of the Jewish diet, but had never violated the kosher laws. But this day he was in a strange village; it was lunchtime and he was starving. He went into a restaurant and was surveying the […]
Harold Kushner and the Problem of Evil
From Mark: The problem of evil, pain, suffering has not been solved by anyone. This is Harold Kushner’s contribution to the solution. He is a Jewish Rabbi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ from Samantha Trenoweth “The Future of God” (Millenium Books 1995) “One of the unique aspects of Judaism,” he says, “is that it believes that everything God created […]
Book Review: Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics
Book Review: Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics by Margaret Farley (Continuum International Publishing Group, June 2006) Dr Margaret Farley, a Sister of Mercy and a professor of Christian ethics – since 1971 – at Yale Divinity School, is one of American Christianity’s foremost ethicists. In this book she tackles some of the […]
Shortest Poem? Another one
And this one ? http://www.vaucanson.org/lettres/pagespourrire/soft.htm by dylan thomas
Rewriting The Gospels (Jesus’ tomb – Time Magazine)
Rewriting The Gospels Friday, Mar. 02, 2007 By DAVID VAN BIEMA Producers of Discovery Channel’s The Lost Tomb of Jesus unveil two ossuaries that experts believe may have belonged to Jesus and Mary Magdalene in New York on February 26, 2007. At a certain point, as I sat in a grand room at the New […]
Bad days
Bad Days — What Do They Mean? Should I Crawl Back Into Bed, Or Fight All the Harder? You’re driving to work and pull into the company lot. There at the entrance your car grinds to a stop and won’t restart. You call for a tow truck, which hauls your lame vehicle to a repair […]
Conversations with Camus
by Howard Mumma Howard Mumma is the author of Albert Camus and the Minister Adapted from Albert Camus and the Minister, published by Paraclete Press. Reprinted in The Christian Century by arrangement with the author and publisher. This article appeared in The Christian Century, June 7-14 pp. 644-647. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation; used […]
The Serenity Prayer
Reinhold’s Era by Gary Dorrien Gary Dorrien was associate professor of religion and dean of Stetson Chapel at Kalamazoo College when this article was written. His book The Word as Truth Myth: Interpreting Modern Theology is to be published this year (1997) by Westminster John Knox. This article appeared in The Christian Century, February 24, […]
Transfiguration
Dazzling Darkness (Lk. 9:28-36) by Barbara Brown Taylor Those of us who spend a lot of time in church have heard Luke’s story of the transfiguration so often that we may think of it as a public event. According to Luke, it was not. Only three other people were there, which means it was an […]
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