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Day: January 11, 2011

Sins absolved with iPhone app

January 11, 2011 No Comments

Online anonymity is most frequently associated with the cruelty of masked trolls, seduction by gender dissimulators, and financial scams. We forget too easily that online facelessness also facilitates the sacred possibilities of the masked ritual, the voting booth, and the therapist’s couch.

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Dallas cathedral meets the challenge of change

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At the same Dallas address, St. Matthews’s Episcopal Cathedral, that once held an Episcopal college for young women of wealth and privilege – among them Lady Bird Johnson – low-income Hispanic women now prepare to take the GED.

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Theology and sexual abuse

January 11, 2011 27 Comments

The brutalised body on the cross rather than the innocent child in the manger, or Jesus, the radical incarnation of mercy and love, became the dominant icon of Christianity. The sadistic and sacrificial manner of Jesus’s death, rather than his gracious, benevolent and merciful life, became the dominant narrative.

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Penciling in the Holy Spirit?

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Sometimes constituents in religious organizations express discomfort with planning, because they fear it will lead to closed, over-structured programs. This concern is legitimate, but rather than avoid planning to ensure that we remain open to change, we can build into programs disciplines that help us remain open to the Holy Spirit’s work.

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O Morning Star

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O Morning Star! how fair and bright,

thou beamest forth in truth and light!

O Sovereign meek and lowly!

Sweet Root of Jesse, David’s Son

my King and Bridegroom, thou hast won

my heart to love thee solely!

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