June 2007
The Archives
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atheism, christopher-hitchens, new-atheists, richard-dawkins, santa-claus
Santa Claus and the New Atheists™
06.28.07 | Permalink | 14 CommentsI’ve been thinking lately about the New Atheists™—the Christopher Hitchenses and Richard Dawkinses, with their best selling books and talk show appearances. I’ve been asking myself: Why is this New Atheism™ so important to them? The god they don’t believe in is a Tooth Fairy god, a Santa Claus god, a god of the gaps. […]
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apathy, condemnation, empire, joy, sharon-welch, social-justice
Justice: Condemnation versus joy
06.27.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Justice: Condemnation versus joyI picked up a copy of Sharon Welch’s After Empire: The Art and Ethos of Enduring Peace at GA, and I’m slowly working my way through it. From page five: What I know in my soul I learned from the lives of my mother and father: that it is possible to work for justice without […]
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brown-bag-controversy, fragmentation, inclusionism, theology, typology, universalism, UU
Inclusionism versus universalism: More brown bag…
06.26.07 | Permalink | 5 CommentsCarl Scovel laid out a nice typology at his farewell sermon at GA. I missed the sermon, but Ron Robinson does a good job laying it out. Scoven says we’ve got two competing theologies in play in UUism. Universalism focuses on god’s love for all and bends toward radical welcome. Inclusionism focuses on our ability […]
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anti-racism, authenticity, pain, racism, UU
Two very personal views on UU anti-racism
06.26.07 | Permalink | 19 Comments“I am not a racist… and it is not OK to tell me that I am,” says Jamie Goodwin over at Trivium. In fact it is an insult, an attack even, on everything I stand for. While I applaud our work on anti-racism as an organization i find it extremely unfair, and frankly a little […]
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dreamhost, slow
Is my blog slow?
06.25.07 | Permalink | 10 CommentsBecause it’s slower than god over here. Thinking about moving to a new host, so if you have an good recommendations of folks who can host five or ten domains for cheap, let me know.
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irony, protest
How not to make a protest sign
06.25.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on How not to make a protest signOh, the irony! Or as one digger put it, “I support this man’s right to not support his right to do what he is doing in order to support my right to not support what he is doing.” (Hat tip to digg.)
