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Towing Augustine
In his farce Towing Jehovah, James Morrow presents us with a troubling problem: God™ is dead. Not metaphorically dead, mind you. Physically dead, floating face up in the Atlantic Ocean, and starting to smell from the rot. (Damn equatorial climate.) So a towboat is employed by an embarassed yet oddly vindicated Vatican to pull the […]
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But April 19
09.11.03 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIt is difficult for this Oklahoma City native to swallow September 11 exceptionalism. September 11 is a tragedy, but it is a tragedy proportionate to April 19. The differences in scope, method, and impact are proportionate to the differences between New York City’s and Oklahoma City’s size, scope and impact. One a geopolitical scale, one […]
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Aligning yourself with the creative event
09.10.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Aligning yourself with the creative eventAn excellent quick summary of Henry Nelson Wieman’s theology of creativity, and an excellent example of Wieman applied.
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But you should hear me play fiddle now…
09.09.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on But you should hear me play fiddle now…As long as we’re talking about soul, mine is worth £15855, which means that 46% of people have a purer soul than me. Any takers? (Hat tip to Anastasia.)
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For what I want to do I do not do
09.09.03 | Permalink | 4 CommentsAs I sit in a new therapist’s waiting room for the third time in my life, I notice I’ve been thinking a lot about choices lately, and the absence of them. And I suspect the situation got screwed up sometime during the Axial Age (some two thousand years ago). Saul/Paul’s gift to the world was […]
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One for prayer, one for naught
09.05.03 | Permalink | 2 CommentsFrom Real Live Preacher: A woman in the movie told a classic Jewish joke. It seems a Jewish man was stranded on an island for many years. His rescuers found that he had built two synagogues on the island. They asked him why he had two, and he said, “One to pray in and the […]
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