Peter’s been on a roll here @ WaC while I’ve been down in Atlanta this summer trying my hand at ministry. I did, however, find some time for some theological and ethical reflection for the the beginning of the World Cup. The good people at ReligionDispatches.org allowed me to share. Check out the article: Soccer [...]
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Catholic church in trouble. In Boston. Again.
The Boston archdiocese of the Roman Catholic church has gotten itself into trouble again. The current troubles revolve around children, the church and sexuality. Unlike previous years, however, this imbroglio is not about clergy sexual abuse. Boston’s ABC affiliate carries this story about Michael Pakaluk’s column of June 4. The column argues against allowing the [...]
Mujahideen From Beyond The Stars
Is the TV show “V” talking about space lizards or Muslims in its fight for survival narrative?
Bemoaning The Loss of Exclusivity
Today the Supreme Court will hear a case that will determine whether colleges and universities can deny official status and subsidies to student groups that bar homosexuals and other groups from membership. At the heart of this case… you guessed it, a Christian organization that denies membership to LGBTQ persons and “those who advocate or [...]
Re: Glenn Beck
Maybe its the longer warmer days that have me in more amicable spirits, but I couldn’t find a spark of anger when I heard Glenn Beck’s latest protest, encouraging people to leave churches that promote social justice — which all mainline churches do. You know, Peter, I want to thank Glenn Beck more than scourge [...]
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck, ultraconservative infotainer and TV host, has recently decided that “social justice” is a code word for fascism. When I first heard this news, I couldn’t believe it was not a headline from the satirical newspaper The Onion. What tortured and specious logic could he possibly employ to literally link Adolf Hitler to Archbishop [...]
Re: Cage Match Christology
Peter – Hard words for some hard (bodied) Christians. First, I have to take offense that you would use that picture of my father in his twenties to represent your tough guy Jesus. Not cool. I guess I’m just enamored with the simultaneous concretizing and exaggerating that’s happening here. We use the word “fighting” pretty [...]
A Priest or A Soldier
The re-boot of the early 1980s TV show “V” has caused me to ponder the role of ordained ministers in violent conflict and the singularity of homo sapiens as special creations of God.
Dollar, Dollar Bills, Y’all
Reasons for the financial collapse: subprime mortgages, over-speculation, bad financial instruments, and of course, Jesus. Wait. What? The feature article in The Atlantic this month is Hanna Rosin’s “Did Christianity Cause the Crisis”. It makes a case that the prosperity gospel was another factor in our economic meltdown. In particular, she suggests its message encouraged people to agree [...]
Re: Fort Hood
We all have a polarity within us; magnets, so to speak, that pull on our moral compass. It’s in cases like Hasan’s, where the needle in the compass snaps, that we begin sifting through the deluge of questions of why his compass no longer pointed north and led him toward such destruction. It’s been just [...]