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Mosque Politics, or How to Make Arguments You Cannot Support
So there’s this big hubbub about a faith group wanting to build a structure in Manhattan to practice their faith. This isn’t really news, let’s be honest, regardless of what the faith group is. Now, if it were some fringey group or the First United Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, we might find it…
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the importance of Anne Rice’s quitting church
The news that celebrated novelist Anne Rice is quitting Christianity is no doubt be taken lightly by most of the world. In the same way that I reject caring about the gossip of celebretries, it would be quite easy to dismiss this announcement. And there might even be a few people out there that are…
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a brief note on the oil crisis
I am feeling so much grief about the oil crisis–and I know I’m not the only one. My heart aches for the land… the people… the workers (from the rig and those cleaning up)… the entire ecosystem… the Creator and Life-Giver… and everyone directly and indirectly dependent on the Gulf of Mexico. And the question…
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Section 1: Questing—Seeking and Finding
This is the first of a three-part series covering David Rudel’s Who Really Goes To Hell?—The Gospel You’ve Never Heard. Rudel looks at how Scripture (The Bible) and our understanding of GOD’s purpose and of Jesus (The Gospel) intersect and where they diverge. My introduction can be found here. We often take it as a…
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Social Justice
Glenn Beck’s attack on justice as a theological concept and the phrase “social justice” as some code word would normally seem like the usual tinfoil-hat-wearing hyperbole that we have come to expect from his entertainment hour. But this one struck a real chord with many of us that take our faith seriously–a faith that struggles…
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The Gospel You’ve Never Heard
I’ve just started reading Who Really Goes to Hell–The Gospel You’ve Never Heard: What a Protestant Bible written by Jews says about God’s work through Christ by David I. Rudel. An intriguing title in itself but the caption underneath it made me all the more interested: “(A book for those in the church and those…
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Pick and choose protestors
Just a quick thought for a Monday morning… Why is it that the millions that protested the Iraq Conflict peacefully for years were virtually ignored by the press and totally ignored by Washington while today’s ‘protesters’, hundreds of angry and abusive anti-tax protesters, are media darlings and have Congress cow-towing to them?
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simplicity
Through Lent, St. Paul’s is holding a Lenten Program about Simplicity. The concept, as I see it, being this: We have complicated lives and live in a complex world, but it need not be so. This complexity separates us from one another and from God. To achieve balance in our lives, we must remove what…