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Monthly Archives: April 2009
At the risk of self-discovery
As I was driving down to Franklin Friday evening for the Sara Groves / Ben Shive concert, I put in Sara’s CD All Right Here, her first CD that I bought and still, I think, my favorite. And I was … Continue reading
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Bono on Easter
The second of Bono’s New York Times op-ed pieces appeared in today’s edition (his first one is here), and this time around, Bono chose to write about Easter. Then comes the dying and the living that is Easter. It’s a … Continue reading
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Imagined Infallibility
After writing the post earlier this week about fundamentalism and intellectual humility, I picked up David Dark’s The Sacredness of Questioning Everything to read another chapter before bed. And, as frequently happens when reading or talking to David, I found … Continue reading
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Tagged certainity, David Dark, Imagined infallibility, infallibility, John R. Rice
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Roger Ebert on God
Film critic Roger Ebert, who updates his journal at the Chicago Sun-Times website quite a bit more than I do my blog, and frequently with lengthy essays, has a new post up about how he believes in God. I can … Continue reading
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The Rice Sisters sing “So Little Time”
Here’s a video of my grandmother (third from the left), with her five sisters singing So Little Time, one of the better known of the many songs my great-grandfather wrote. The video is from 1975, the same year the aforementioned … Continue reading
Crazy for God, part 4 – Theological Purity
I started writing a series of posts reviewing Frank Schaeffer’s Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back a little … Continue reading
Fundamentalism and Intellectual Humility
I just published an essay over at the Rabbit Room that I started to write a couple years ago but didn’t finish for some reason. Not long ago, I came across a quote by N.T. Wright that provided a concise … Continue reading
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Tagged Intellectual Humility, John R. Rice, N.T. Wright, Rabbit Room, Rob Bell, Scot McKnight, Stephen Lamb
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“Perversion is a failure of the imagination,” part two
Link to part one. Continuing the thought from yesterday’s post, in his book American Fascists: the Christian Right and the War on America, the ever-provocative Chris Hedges writes about attending a political rally disguised as a Christian crusade, designed to … Continue reading
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