Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in contemplation on 21 June 2008 - 19 סיון 5768
Take a look at the RCL readings for tomorrow, Proper 7, Year A. They are some of the tough ones.
But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son; for [...]
Posted in Judaism, contemplation, orthoparadoxy on 16 June 2008 - 14 סיון 5768
This Sunday’s (yesterday’s) reading from the Revised Common Lectionary (for Proper 6, Year A) included the passage recounting “The Hospitality of Abraham.”
The LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing near [...]
Posted in contemplation, memes on 15 June 2008 - 13 סיון 5768
Would the book of Job make sense as the story and questions of a peasant or serf or share-cropper Job? My question comes from visits to churches and development projects in Cuba, El Salvador, Malawi, Ethiopia, and among native peoples in Canada. These visits leave me wondering whether theodicy – the theological and [...]
Posted in contemplation, memes on 15 June 2008 - 13 סיון 5768
if the nature of god is omnipotent, benevolent, and anthropomorphic (that god is a person, who sees suffering as wrong, and can change all of it), why does god not act to relieve all suffering, or at least the greatest amount of suffering for the greatest amount of people the greatest amount of time?
Why does [...]
Posted in contemplation, memes on 15 June 2008 - 13 סיון 5768
1. It is my assumption that God wishes to maximize the number of people saved but not at the cost of creating robots. That is, it seems to me that there are at least two imperatives at work. God wishes all to be saved. God wishes all to have free will. I [...]
Posted in contemplation, rightwingers on 13 June 2008 - 11 סיון 5768
Where is the right-wing conservative preacher who will tell us now…
What sins did the people of Iowa commit that God punished them with flood waters like he did the people of Indonesia and China?
What sins did the Boy Scouts commit that God should have trapped them in a box canyon and killed them? Michael [...]
Posted in contemplation on 7 June 2008 - 5 סיון 5768
Three lines leap out at me as I read the Revised Common Lectionary texts for tomorrow:
From Hosea: For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
From Paul to the Romans: [Jesus]… who was handed over to death for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.
And Jesus: [...]
Posted in Buffalo, church geekery, contemplation, photoblog on 25 May 2008 - 21 אייר 5768
Corpus Christi 2008-4.jpg
Originally uploaded by w.wabbit.
The Sunday within the Octave of Corpus Christie was observed at St Andrew’s Parish with adoration, a procession and mass in the garden behind the Church. (In Buffalo, the minute it gets warm, nearly everyone and everything moves outside.) We will probably be in the garden for [...]
Posted in contemplation on 20 May 2008 - 16 אייר 5768
Brother James Michael Dowd, n/OHC, takes a little turn to the East in his Trinity sermon:
…I think a fact-based approach to faith is missing the point by a mile. We need a Truth-based approach to faith. And for that, we need mystery, we need wonder, we need imagination. This is not to denigrate science, [...]
Posted in contemplation, personal, saints and days on 30 April 2008 - 26 ניסן 5768
On the Gregorian Calendar, Thursday 1 May is Ascension Day this year and 11 May is Pentecost. It is traditional, on the intervening days, to do some act of devotion to the Holy Spirit. I think this is especially appropriate in my own journey as 1 May is the day I meet with Bp [...]
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