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
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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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WatchWatch
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
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