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I admit I feel pretty good about these test results…

HIS IS Currently making the rounds on Facebook. I don’t really need to tag 25 other bloggers – I just tagged 25 of my FB friends. But if you feel like playing along, do!

HERE’S NOT A Thing Wrong with the Millennium Development Goals. Today I’m supposed to blog about ‘em and there’s nothing wrong with ‘em…
Except they are not our job as Christians.
I think they are all cool deals. But it’s not my job to get the Gov’ts of the World to take your money away [...]

T Father T’s suggestion I took an abbreviated M-B typology test. It may come as no surprise that I turned up as Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging!
But, as I noted (in my comment to Fr T’s post), I’m also a Virgo/Virgo Rising, with my moon in Taurus, as well as a Dragon/Monkey/Rabbit. I find [...]

PICKED This up out and about on the web. It seemed to interesting to pass up.
How the Omnivore’s 100 Works:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional: Post a comment at Very [...]

HIS MEME Is moving through the Presbyterian Blogs. It’s currently filling up my ecumenical/emergent RSS feed. It was started by the moderator of PC(USA), Bruce Reyes-Chow in his own blog. When your Primus Inter Pares gets her own blog, then you’re using the internet.
I know in the old days of ECUSA [...]

Here are the questions. Post links to your blog posts – or post your responses – in the comment section. My response is in another post. Thanks to Donald and Fr E for sharing their responses as well!
1. if the nature of god is omnipotent, benevolent, and anthropomorphic (that god is a person, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]