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February 2005



Friday Round-Up, with quotes!

Friday, 25 February 2005 11:40 A GMT-06
Progressive Protestant posts on what orthodoxy misses, and uses Judith Butler in his argument.  I haven't read her, but Sarah Coakley's essay on the resurrection of the body brings Butler and Gregory of Nyssa into conversation.  I'll have to give

Prudence Crandall and her students

Wednesday, 23 February 2005 11:14 A GMT-06
I'm reading America's Women, and it's pretty good.  It gives a broad overview of women's history in America, touching not only on the famous figures (Susan B. Anthony, etc.) but on lesser known and ordinary women as well.  This story is from the ch

Peacemaking beyond war

Friday, 18 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-06
Camassia and Verbum Ipsum are blogging about just war, but my mind has been on how pacifism, or peacemaking, relates to situations beyond our nation at war.  Specifically, violence in inner cities.You might have noticed I'm obsessed with The Wire. 

Happy Fat Tuesday

Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:08 A GMT-06
My office, for the first time in the four years I've been here, is having a little Mardi Gras potluck lunch/party today.  (This is the same Christian organization that sent me a "holiday" card in December wishing me "Seasons Greetings

Get me on an airplane, now

Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:08 A GMT-06
Why is it that I only found out about this yesterday:MUSEUM SEMINARUnraveling The WireThursday, February 10, 2005; 6:00 to 7:45 p.m.Panel: Ed Burns, Producer/Writer John Doman, “Dep. Commissioner Rawls” Idris Elba, “Russell ‘Stringer’ Bell

Groundhog Day

Wednesday, 2 February 2005 10:47 A GMT-06
I love this movie.  From Touchstone:"Indeed, Phil’s various reactions to his enslavement read like the history of philosophy in reverse. Phil is shocked at his own impotence, so much faith had he put in his meteorological training. (“I make

This holy mystery

Tuesday, 1 February 2005 2:52 P GMT-06
Coming soon to a United Methodist church near me....weekly celebration of the eucharist!  Hooray!  Our church is starting a Sunday evening simple Word and Table service.  There are some other fine options for Sunday evening worship in Chicago, but