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Category Archives: Theology
Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 4/9)
There’s a poignant comment in Bridget Jones’ Diary where one of Bridget’s guy friends says something to her about the amount of calories one needs to eat everyday and she stares back at him, commenting to her journal that she hadn’t really thought about calories as needed, she thought the ideal was to get down [...]
Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 3/9)
If I jump back to a group of friends when I was in elementary school, I remember one time everyone decided to talk about their weight. I remember desperately not wanting to give mine, but at the same time, there was a girl in that group who was quite overweight, but I never remember [...]
Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 2/9)
Picking up a Vogue magazine in the stand recently, I was struck by several ads in a row that featured not only particularly anorexic-looking models, but ones that were unnaturally pale, with eyes seemingly enlarged by context in their bony faces, staring vacantly at the camera with limb arranged in provocative positions. If I [...]
What God has done…
I heard something a couple of days ago that sort of put me over the edge. See, it was the same thing I’d been hearing from different random people for over a month, and quite frankly, I’m tired of it.
I hadn’t planned to post on the topic which I’m about to post on because it [...]
Also posted in My life, Theology and Culture 6 Comments
Oh yes, you did laugh!
Proper 6 Year A RCL
June 15, 2008, St. Ann’s Nashville
Genesis 18:1-15
I’ve been reading Barbara Kingsolver’s book called Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and a story she told at the beginning sort of struck me as going along with our readings for today. One of the first chapters is called “Waiting for Asparagus” and she tells of [...]
Also posted in Sermons 2 Comments
Eternity in disguise
I’ve been reading The Sabbath, by Abraham Joshua Heschel, a book which I’ve owned for several years and have yet to actually read. He starts out with a sort of polarization of time and space, saying:
Technical civilization is man’s conquest of space. It is a triumph frequently achieved by sacrificing an essential ingredient [...]
Also posted in Musings, Sabbath living 3 Comments
How not to do church…
I’ve been reading blogs again (yay!) and rediscovered one, and found a new one that were both talking about similar things in different ways.
Glenn Innes muses on an Einstein quote “The kind of thinking that will solve the world’s problems will be of a different order to the kind of thinking that created those [...]
Also posted in Blog watch, Ecclesiology 1 Comment
Ghosts and corpses–the danger of splitting up the Gospel
My wonderful husband, Jody, posted a quote from E. Stanley Jones recently where he discussed what happens when you separate an individual gospel from a social gospel.
An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body, and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is [...]
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Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 5/9)