October 2003
The Archives
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Sad day for indie/emo music
10.23.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Sad day for indie/emo musicIndie/emo star Elliott Smith committed suicide yesterday.
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The end of apocaplypse?
10.23.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on The end of apocaplypse?In a lecture here about two weeks ago, theologian Harvey Cox–while speaking on Tim LaHaye’s fundy Left Behind novel series–called for the end of apocalyptic Christianity. That’s quite an apocalypse in itself. If infamous radical theologian Thomas Altizer (of “God is dead” fame) is right, the embrace of (a Hegelian typology of) apocalypse is the […]
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Becoming bourgeois
This Saturday we moved our life and our stuff into our first house. The process is still overwhelming. There is still the sense of impermanence that goes with apartment living, the knowledge that you’ll only be there for so long and aren’t allowed to make many changes anyway. I say this looking at freshly painted […]
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Pentecost 19
10.07.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Pentecost 19O divine wisdom, whose life fills our bodies: may we do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with our god, that we may recognize the voice of the prophets when they speak. Blessed be. (Drawn from An Uncommon Lectionary.)
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Why I hate thank you notes
10.06.03 | Permalink | 4 CommentsWhile the good folks at The Morning News provide an excellent guide to writing thank you notes, my ire was raised nonetheless. Why do I hate thank you notes? They’re bourgeois. Impoverished people do not write each other thank you notes, nor does anyone expect them to. So neither should you expect them from anyone. […]
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Slavery to god?
Author Yair Caspi had a religious experience once, what psychologist Abraham Maslow would term a “peak experience.” It’s content? We can only find true freedom by making ourselves slaves to god. Caspi then built that experience into a psychological method that relies heavily on Jewish god-talk. A secular Jew, Caspi find traditional psychology to be […]
