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Comment on Friday after Ash Wednesday by Huw

Huw — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:24:59 +0000

Of course you don’t. That’s the point.

Comment on Friday after Ash Wednesday by arnie draiman

arnie draiman — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:19:19 +0000

hi Huw…. as i wrote, i thought it was an ‘interesting’ interpretation. didn’t say i agreed with it….. vanilla/chocolate…

arnie

Comment on Friday after Ash Wednesday by Huw

Huw — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:16:11 +0000

I'd forgotten I left some of these Gospel reading in the CJB translation. There is an irony in posting links to your consulting firm's "good deeds" pages here after a Gospel that condemns such actions... so I let it go forward.

Comment on Friday after Ash Wednesday by arnie draiman

arnie draiman — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:35:16 +0000

interesting interpretation for Matthew 5: 43-48; 6: 1-4 with the tzedakah angle.

appreciate anything that allows me to learn and discover more.

arnie draiman
http://www.draimanconsulting.com
http://www.draimanconsulting.com/draiman_tzedakah_adventures.html
http://www.mitzvahheroesfund.org

Comment on Jesus Freak: feeding, healing, raising the dead by Huw

Huw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:43:15 +0000

JESUS IS NOT A PALESTINIAN!

I received this email from a reader – well known to me – who asked that their name not be shared. But I think the point is very valid:

I started to read the review, as is my wont, but I stopped dead after the first block quote, and could not continue. Why? you might ask. I’ll tell you, in the form of a rant aimed at Sara Miles:

For the umpteenth fucking time, people, Jesus did not fucking roam through fucking Palestine. I’m sorry you are so hung up on your politics that you can’t help but spew this anachronistic nonsense, but it ruins your credibility and identifies you as a total asshole in the eyes of anyone who gives a shit about what Jesus of Nazareth may actually have said and done (that is, not the “Jesus of faith”). If your fantasy Jesus is a modern-day Palestinian Arab projected backward, fine, God bless. But just admit up front that you don’t give a flying rat’s ass about who your savior was on Earth — which, imho, makes your notion of who he is in heaven more than a little suspect. And while you’re at it, admit that it may be just a tad anti-Semitic to refuse to call your Jesus a Jew who roamed Galilee and Judea, with a stopover in Samaria. Like it says in — oh, I don’t know — the friggin’ TEXT.

P.S.: Your “Jesus was a Palestinian” bumper sticker is equally moronic, making my head explode as a historian, if not as a moderately well-read amateur theologian.

Comment on And this is Goodbye by Fr. Gregory Christakos

Fr. Gregory Christakos — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:19:53 +0000

Miss you already.

Comment on And this is Goodbye by Lucian

Lucian — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:02:37 +0000

Just glad to know you’re not one of these “I blog, therefore I am” characters. :-)

Comment on And this is Goodbye by tzvee

tzvee — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:15:10 +0000

nah, you need to do this, don’t stop.
tzvee

Comment on What the Sabbatical will Look Like by Vladyka SYMEON

Vladyka SYMEON — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:34:10 +0000

Huw,
I am overwhelmed by those who wish to contact me online, so I never talked with you online.
I think that you are taking the right steps in this Sabbatical.
May you have a blessed 40 days (lent) and if you need me (from the Labyrinth) I’ll be here.
+SYMEON

Comment on Former Palinode by James of Chicago

James of Chicago — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:53:51 +0000

When I read this almost 2 1/2 years ago, I also thought you were looking over my shoulder on my own journey. Much of what you said in this essay resonates with me.

In my own journey, I think I”m almost cured of my convertitis, my Jerusalem Syndrome. Nevertheless, like the alcoholic who gives up drinking, I wonder what will give me that sense of purpose and passion in life now that I realize what used to give me purpose and passion is not healthy. Perhaps loving other people and actually listening and caring about them rather than being completely absorbed in what interests me now. Damn, love is tough.