About a year ago I undertook a sort of informal pilgrimage.
One night, starting at the Saginaw Street bridge downtown, I followed the Flint River upstream north and east, looking for the headwaters. The drive took me deep into Lapeer County, through tiny towns I’ve heard of most my life, but most of which I had never visited: Columbiaville, North Branch, Dryden, Metamora. … Read the rest
So I wrote the following letter as a response to Glenn Beck’s recent call for Christians to renounce any church, congregation, or parish that calls for “social justice” or “economic justice” because they are code words for “nazism” and “communism.”
First, let’s be honest; Glenn Beck is a straw man.… Read the rest
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It is also the feast of the three Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.
You can read more about it here.
One of the wonderful ambiguities of religious tradition is the way that what may seem from the outside to be a simple “symbolic” allegory is, in fact, multivalent and complementary.
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Things are way different here from how they were when you were around.
Then again, maybe not so much.
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A youngun’ is anyone who was not old enough to theoretically understand the significance of Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994. It doesn’t matter whether they actually do know or understand said death… however, they have to have been old enough (say eight or nine) to have had a conversation about this musician who made music that a lot of people liked, and he killed himself, and that’s that.
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When praying the Litany of Mary, I’ve always been puzzled by the abundance of titles attributed to Mary. Many are evocative, but some seem almost inexplicable: “tower of ivory” and “seat of wisdom” and so forth. This week I was lucky enough to come across this website on the Litany, which was evidently composed during the Middle Ages at the Holy House of Loreto.
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I think that for many of us the lyrics to Soothe by the Smashing Pumpkins represents the possibility, if not the ideal, of what we can realistically hope for when it comes to dealing with ugly situations in the past and present.
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Borrowed from Pastor Dan.
… Read the restWelcome to Washington! The fun is about to begin, but first, please join me in pausing for a moment, to ask God’s blessing upon our nation and our next president.
O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will…
Bless us with tears – for a world in which over a billion people exist on less than a dollar a day, where young women from many lands are beaten and raped for wanting an education, and thousands die daily from malnutrition, malaria, and AIDS.
BODY: Gene Robinson’s Prayer. Read More »
