December 2011
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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
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/ ]
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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
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To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely — to step in the name...
– Cornel West, Democracy Matters
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’)
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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)
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Charles Taylor, “The Future of the Secular”
In recent elections one would have thought that homosexuality and abortion were...
– Richard Rohr (via azspot)