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You don’t need provolone cheese
09.04.03 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI hate middle aged white women who need provolone cheese. A friend tells me of a summer job in a deli that several middle aged white women would come into the store. They were quite picky about their sandwiches, even when they didn’t realize what they wanted until after it was ordered and half made. […]
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Pentecost 14
09.03.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Pentecost 14O Depth of the All, whose light hides the darkness: Lighten our way along the path, that what we have hidden from ourselves will be revealed. (Drawn from An Uncommon Lectionary.)
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Can love save the world?
08.27.03 | Permalink | 5 CommentsBiblical scholar Walter Wink offers a fresh interpretation of Jesus on violence. His explanation of “turning the other cheek” is unique and enlightening: Jesus gives some snarky advice on the “pimp slap.”
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Indie god-talk
08.26.03 | Permalink | 11 CommentsThe point of the humanities, staying with Rorty, is to shake things up, to help us imagine new ways of living and being. He argues that the humanities offer “a desirable replacement of bad questions like ‘What is Being?’, ‘What is really real?’ and ‘What is man?’ with the sensible question ‘Does anybody have any […]
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Contempt for the word
08.26.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Contempt for the wordLanguagehat gives us this quote to ponder: An extraordinary contempt for the word, or what might even be called a loathing for the word has seized humanity. Confidence in the notion that human beings are capable of persuading one another with words and language has vanished in the most radical sense. Everything associated with parlare […]
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Postmodernism’s point
08.21.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Postmodernism’s pointStill following up on Rorty, the point of “postmodernism” is the rejection of the project of philosophical intellectuals, that is, the hope that discovering reality-as-it-really-is “would end, once and for all, the process of reflection on what to do with ourselves.” In religious language, it is the naming of Truth as an idol.
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