January 2010 archive
Maybe what passes for congregational singing these days is part of the Christian suffering I am expected to endure during my sojourn on this doomed dirt clod in space… When did the tired cliché of a Broadway interlude become the…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/01/31/when-a-congregation-is-just-an-audience/
This discussion on God and Haiti’s suffering is very good:
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith//2010/01/does_god_allow_haiti_to_suffer/all.html
Frankly, I have been struggling with the idea in our book that all suffering is part of God’s handiwork, to either mete out divine vengeance or build us up…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/01/24/god-in-haiti/
Curious about the origins of Pat Robertson’s outrageous comments about Haiti’s latest agony, my research turned up this interesting nugget in Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti): “In 1912 Syrians residing in Haiti participated in a plot in which the presidential palace…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/01/16/haiti-the-lebanese-and-the-bat-crap-crazies/
Bush, in a typical display of sensitivity, remarked about his 30-minute trip between Jerusalem and Ramallah yesterday: “You’ll be happy to know, my whole motorcade of a mere 45 cars was able to make it through without being stopped. I’m…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/01/11/prez-perks-in-palestine/
Here’s a fascinating glimpse into Israel’s “Jewish democracy” from the perspective of an American woman:
http://www.transitionmagazine.com/articles/zion.htm
One of the things that struck me as I read this was how Palestinians are, for the most part, a remote abstraction, as thoroughly…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/01/07/searching-for-zion/
