Here’s the cross that has haunted me ever since I saw it two years ago in Clarksdale, Mississippi, at a place called “Cat Head Blues.”
Category: America
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Feb 11 2009
Immorality vs. immortality
Just got this today: The Pastor asked if anyone in the congregation would like to express praise for answered prayers. A lady stood and walked to the podium. She said, “I have a Praise. Two months ago, my husband,Tom, had a terrible bicycle wreck and his scrotum was completely crushed. The pain was excruciating and …
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Jan 27 2009
Yelling at my computer
There’s a piece in the “On Faith” section of today’s Washington Post, where John Hagee proclaims his hopes and concerns for Obama. Of course, he includes this bit of bovine excrement: “When it comes to our ally Israel, one of my chief concerns…” To which I posted the following comment: The dirty little secret about …
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Jan 24 2009
A question
Something I have not seen or heard discussed during the rape of Gaza or its prologue… Haven’t there been all kinds of funds and research expended on anti-missile technologies? Weren’t American systems installed in Israel? Why, after years of harassment by the pea-shooters of Hamas, and the rockets of Hezbollah and Saddam before them, hasn’t …
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Jan 21 2009
Cotton Patch gospels
Thanks so much for introducing me to Clarence Jordan. My pastor has loaned me a copy of Jordan’s “translation” of Matthew and John and, because of the intro by Tom Key, I am listening to Harry Chapin’s soundtrack now… My musical and literary education were sorely lacking. Is the musical still being performed on occasion? …
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Jan 20 2009
Lest we forget
Near the end of Obama’s inaugural address was this stirring rhetoric: “To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict or blame their society’s ills on the West, know that your people will judge you on …
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Jan 08 2009
A prayer for Israel
Friends, Yesterday, Al Staggs sent me the poem-prayer below; he has today given permission to share it so please feel free to pass it along. Al is a former pastor and presently a performer and a poet. He is probably best known for his portrayals of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Clarence Jordan and just recently published a book …
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