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Confessions of an accidental feminist
Go read Rachel Held Evans’ Confessions of an accidental feminist. Very good stuff. I always laugh a little to myself when I receive a Google Alert informing me that someone on the internet has criticized me as a “bitter, angry woman” intent on destroying the Church with my “radical feminist agenda.” I laugh because if these…
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Is He Leaving?
A video reflection on this Sunday’s gospel: John 17:6-19.
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Belief v. Action
In church circles there is a lot of exercise around the idea that there is dichotomous relationship between our beliefs and our actions. This is particularly evident between the groups Phyllis Tickle refers to as the Social Justice Christians (ie. the Mainliners) and the Conservative Christians (conservative evangelicals and Southern Baptists). In this paradigm, one…
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Beyond Empire: giving to the emperor
Today’s gospel: Matthew 22:15-22 This is one of my favorite moments for Jesus. He has just been hammering at the Jewish leadership and attacking the relationship between the religious leaders and the empire. He chased the moneychangers and now they have all had enough. They’re coming to get him. So they bring a trap. A…
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playing cards
As I climbed into the car, my daughter told me that she and her Nana were “playing cards” in the backseat. After a minute, I realized it was a modified version of “Go Fish”. “Do you have some 2’s?” she asks her Nana as I pull out of the parking lot. “Sophia, do you have…
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Flying: how change came before you noticed it
Remember the old image of flying in an airplane? The smoky cabin, everyone dressed in suits, the stewardesses pretty and amiable. Everything with the nostalgic sheen of an episode of Mad Men. Flying was the purview of the wealthy and the hardworking. It wasn’t for the common man. Of course, those that fly routinely know…
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Enough Cuts: it’s time to invest
Conversations about proposed funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and recent incidents with leadership, including high-profile resignations has brought a surprising amount of attention to PBS and NPR, the television and radio components of the Corporation. One of the central topics is whether or not the organization could survive any funding cut (not…