Day: April 15, 2009

On the road to Canterbury with NPR

“Now it’s quite unusual if you belong to a church; I think people think you’re a bit strange,” says Nicola Ely. “Older people tend to belong, but I don’t think it’s really something for the young. I wouldn’t dream of going to anything if it’s church-based.”

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Having The Talk

Two articles on the sex talk, both from the New York Times (well, one is from a NYT blog, Freakonomics), caught our attention in the last two days.

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Can we look forward to a mixed society?

It wasn’t so much that the members of the two churches did not get along, Hurd and Cartwright agreed. They just existed on different sides of an invisible wall that ran between one church on Swinton Avenue and the other on Southwest Third Street.

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Wounds that don’t heal

The resurrection as it actually happened is God’s savage rebuke of all human tendency to cover up pain, all cosmetic smoothing over, all letting bygones be bygones, all conspiracies of silence, and phony cover-ups masquerading as reconciliation. “He showed them his hand and his side.”

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Threshold of the light

Last night did Christ the Sun rise from the dark,

The mystic harvest of the fields of God,

And now the little wandering tribes of bees

Are brawling in the scarlet flowers abroad.

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