The politics of hope
March 31, 2008
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The New Yorker describes a Good Friday “Seven Last Words” service at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
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Webcasting funerals
March 31, 2008
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In England, a Southampton funeral home has begun offering funeral services via webcast to mourners who cannot make the journey to funeral in person. The
Bishop Katharine writes the Senate
March 31, 2008
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Climate change exacerbates extreme world poverty and poverty is hastening global warming. Most people living in poverty around the world lack access to a reliable energy source, forcing many to choose energy sources such as oil, coal, or wood, which threaten to expand significantly the world’s greenhouse emissions and thus accelerate the effects of climate change.
Resurrection. Not resuscitation
March 31, 2008
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In my teens, I thought some about heaven and decided that I wanted no part of it. So much of what I found fun consisted of activities that someone had proscribed, activities not likely allowed in heaven. Our cultural stereotype of angelic beings strumming harps in a place evocative of an impressionist painting left me, a non-musician, unimpressed.
The difficult way
March 31, 2008
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We know that Joseph was concerned about his future with Mary because they were not yet married when she conceived. We know that he considered divorcing her, as the Jewish law allowed. So Jesus’ life began in a difficult and even dangerous situation in that small town in Israel.
A former death row chaplain
March 30, 2008
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The Dallas Morning News Religion Blog notes an interesting new film that was previewed at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival in Austin earlier this month, and that will air at 8 p.m. on May 29 on the Independent Film Channel. The film is called “At the Death House Door,” and it focuses on the Rev. Carroll “Bud” Pickett’s path from death-penalty supporter to opponent.
The Pope’s visit to America
March 30, 2008
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On April, 15, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI will make his first visit as Pope to the United States. Beliefnet offers complete coverage, including a blog devoted to the visit.
Progressive evangelicals reshape image
March 30, 2008
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An evangelical group that wants to reshape the movement’s political reputation for being focused on opposing abortion and same-sex marriage is hoping that a series of meetings stressing its roots in women’s suffrage and abolition will help it break out of the mold.
Is Christianity a Bibical faith?
March 30, 2008
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Quite rightly, we may therefore say that St Paul had a view of the role of women that we now recognise to be less than Christian — to take a simple example. Once that is conceded, there is no longer any need for theologians to sweat blood ironing out the many contradictions in the Bible. Given the world as it is, those contradictions make the Bible more, not less, credible. They leave us with essential existential choices, which give meaning to the “glorious liberty of the children of God”. We are slaves to no text; nor are we a religion of any book
Practicing resurrection
March 30, 2008
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Wendell Berry, the great environmentalist poet-theologian, has written a piece about somebody he calls a “mad farmer” who goes around shouting, “Practice resurrection!” “Practice resurrection.” That’s not bad advice.
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