February 2012
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“Ruler of the Night, Guarantor of the day … This day — a gift from you....”
– Walter Brueggemann, “Marked by Ashes” from Prayers for a Privileged People
Feb 23rd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 17th
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“What Jesus was about was starting a revolution. He called this revolution, ” the...”
– Greg Boyd (via azspot)
Feb 3rd
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January 2012
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“I have a nagging hunch that the gospel’s power in our own time is about to be...”
– Walter Wink, Engaging the Powers
Jan 29th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 6th
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Walter Brueggemann: “An Invitation to Justice” (from the Justice Conference 2010) 
Jan 4th
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“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a...”
– Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
Jan 4th
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Jan 2nd
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
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“The doctrine of creation, then, means that our created environment is touched by...”
– Andrew Louth, “Between Creation and Transfiguration: The Environment in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition,” in Ecological Hermeneutics: Biblical, Historical and Theological Perspectives
Dec 30th
Dec 29th
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The Real War on Christmas →
chaseandre: Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet, would cost about $20 billion. Let’s just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season. [ http://water4christmas.com/ ]
Dec 29th
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“We give you thanks for the babe born in violence. We give you thanks for the...”
– Walter Brueggemann, “In violence and travail,” in Awed from Heaven, Rooted In Earth: the Prayers of Walter Brueggemann
Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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“To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely — to step in the name...”
– Cornel West, Democracy Matters
Dec 24th
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“The mythology of “state-as-savior” and democratic control do not line up with...”
– Andy Alexis-Baker (‘The Myth of the State As Savior and Elections as Confession of Faith’)
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 18th
“In truth, the conspicuous moral fact about our generals, our industrialists, our...”
– William Stringfellow Marva Dawn on How Power Corrupts Ministry « Faith Improvised (via mshedden)
Dec 14th
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Charles Taylor, “The Future of the Secular”
Dec 11th
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“In recent elections one would have thought that homosexuality and abortion were...”
– Richard Rohr (via azspot)
Dec 5th
November 2011
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Nov 27th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 23rd
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“This Sunday is an interesting liturgical day — Christ the King or Reign of...”
– Rev. Doug Goodwin, from the University Hill Congregation weekly newsletter
Nov 20th
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is...”
– Pope John Paul II (via catholic-inspiration) (via deepinhistory)
Nov 19th
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“… One day, at the last judgment, he will separate the sheep and the goats...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “The Coming of Jesus in Our Midst”
Nov 18th
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“The meeting involves this old text, the spent congregation believing but...”
– Walter Brueggemann, Finally Comes the Poet
Nov 18th
“It is thus ironic, though not really surprising, that American Christianity,...”
– Dale Martin, “Familiar Idolatry and the Christian Case Against Marriage,” Sex and the Single Savior This whole book, especially this chapter, is so so good.  (via shortbreadsh) Reading list asap. (via invisibleforeigner)
Nov 16th
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Nov 16th
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Sermon on Amos 5:18-24
Delivered at United Church worship at VST on Tuesday November 8, 2011. Our reading brings us in to the world of a kingdom in disarray. After some heady days, a period of unbridled economic growth and expansion, things are now on the decline. The economy is in recession, wages are stagnant, unemployment is high and Israel is surrounded by enemies on all sides. All the while Israel’s elite—the...
Nov 11th
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Nov 5th
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“God refuses to be God without us. We asked God to say something definite and...”
– Will Willimon in response to the question, “What is the gospel in seven words?”
Nov 5th
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“The Torah vision and the prophetic hope are only words, only texts, only poetry....”
– Walter Brueggemann, The Word that Redescribes the World
Nov 3rd
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Nov 1st
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October 2011
8 posts
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Oct 26th
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Oct 25th
Oct 14th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 2nd
September 2011
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Sep 30th
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Sep 22nd
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“The silence of most Christians and the giddy enthusiasm of a few, as well as the...”
– William H. Willimon on how he’s changed since 9-11, via Jason Postma
Sep 11th
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Sep 5th