Feb 11 2009
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
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 21 2009
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 08 2009
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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Dec 24 2008
Folksinger John McCutcheon’s “Christmas in the Trenches” — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9coPzDx6tA The following is from Jim Wallis’ (www.sojo.net) weekly email: Silent Night, by Stanley Weintraub, is the story of Christmas Eve, 1914, on the World War I battlefield in Flanders. As the German, British, and French troops facing each other were settling in for the night, a …
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Nov 02 2008
To my pastor: Appreciated today’s reminder that God is still sovereign, even if Americans don’t vote for Obama. I wish you could have reminded people to try to rise above any lingering racism or other prejudices when deciding to vote. And to consider a broader, holistic what-would-Jesus-do approach to voting rather than the myriad single-issue, divide-and-conquer strategies being peddled every …
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Aug 24 2008
For me, this is probably the work that got the Israeli PR thinkers to seeing the possibilities for a beautiful friendship between Zionism and fundamentalism: Hal Lindsey’s 1970 “The Late, Great Planet Earth.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Great_Planet_Earth I remember hearing about this while we were still in high school, and wondering what in the hell kind of foolishness …
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