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August 2004
Poverty and government
Monday, 30 August 2004 11:38 A GMT-06
Interesting discussion on Amy Welborn's blog about the role of government social programs and the poor. Apparently, in Texas, a program that provided dental and eye health care coverage to children was cut, and columnist Rod Dreher wrote about a fa
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Religion and politics on the radio
Monday, 30 August 2004 10:33 A GMT-06
After I complained about the discussion on religion and politics that I heard on the local Public Radio program on Friday, I thought to myself, they should have called up Michael Budde and interviewed him. He's a professor of political science at
Thoughts from my day
Thursday, 26 August 2004 7:22 P GMT-06
I spent the day loading, hauling around, and unloading school supplies for our agency's annual school supply drive. I work for a Christian non-profit that serves children in Chicago and surrounding communities. One suburban church has donated the
A personal Savior?
Tuesday, 24 August 2004 9:13 P GMT-06
There is a therapeutic and a theological source of the nice god. "The nice god emerges from the therapeutic culture of late modernity where self-esteem and narcissism rule." This has something to do with Alasdair MacIntyre's claim that
God Is Not Nice
Monday, 23 August 2004 8:22 P GMT-06
This is first in a series of entries on Dr. Long's essay "God Is Not Nice" in this book, in which Long basically gives the smackdown to the nice, therapeutic, non-judgmental, inclusive god of mainline Protestantism, who he claims "is
Friday Round-Up
Friday, 20 August 2004 12:00 A GMT-06
Keith rethinks salvation, and a new blog, Versus Populum, writes about living the resurrection. I think their two posts go together:Keith: "...salvation was as much about this life as about the next one. It's not just about sin, blood, and get
Congratulations Tyler Hamilton
Thursday, 19 August 2004 1:08 P GMT-06
American Tyler Hamilton won the gold medal in the cycling time trial yesterday at the Olympics."Hamilton, a top hopeful in the Tour de France this year, was forced to drop out of the world's greatest race after injuring his back in a crash on s
I forgot to say thank you
Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:58 P GMT-06
Yesterday, I focused on the story of Harry Burn, but let's not forget the suffragists themselves.In 1923, Carrie Chapman Catt wrote in her book, Woman Suffrage and Politics: "To get the word 'male' in effect out of the Constitution cost the wome
On this day in history...
Wednesday, 18 August 2004 2:55 P GMT-06
After the House of Representatives and the Senate passed the 19th Amendment, the vote was sent to the states to ratify. Thirty-six states were needed. From Blueshoe Nashville: "By August 1920, when the issue was to come before the Tennessee
Perfection and grace
Monday, 16 August 2004 10:41 P GMT-06
I suppose it is true that Methodism can be misinterpreted as a dependence on rules, which could lead to, as Darren wrote, overcoming sin by moral effort. The very term "Methodists" was meant to be perjorative, as if they were overly met
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Try "mysterious" and relax
Friday, 13 August 2004 8:43 A GMT-06
From Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire(Elphaba is the future "Wicked Witch," here speaking to the dictator the Wizard of Oz about the treatment of Animals, who are animals with a rational conscio
Je suis tres joyeux
Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:59 P GMT-06
I found a Theological French class! On Monday nights! Perfect. It's at Trinity Divinity School, and I already called the Admissions Office and found out how to apply as a Visiting Student. In other words, all I want from them is to take this
Sin and grace
Thursday, 12 August 2004 3:22 P GMT-06
Darren blogs on growing up in a Wesleyan Holiness denomination and how that affected his view of sin and grace, especially in terms of self-condemnation. I grew up Wesleyan too, but the United Methodists are quite different. Not too much sin and
New Jersey - updated!
Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:59 P GMT-06
I saw two movies in the past few days that take place in my fine home state of New Jersey - Garden State and The Station Agent. Garden State stars and is written and directed by Zach Braff, who plays J.D. on Scrubs. In this movie he's a 26 year old d
Punctuation rules
Sunday, 8 August 2004 9:33 P GMT-06
Attention everyone!Please heed these examples of proper and improper use of exclamation points in comments.Proper: to debate the relative hotness of various radical orthodoxy theologiansImproper: screaming about the true churchThank you.
A Methodist Conspiracy
Thursday, 5 August 2004 1:08 P GMT-06
Amy Welborn links to a newspaper article (that I couldn't read cause I'm too lazy to register) that points out that 75% of the presidential ticket is United Methodist, except that one guy who's Catholic. "If the count were reversed, three Ca
Women, dress, and sex
Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:03 A GMT-06
I have to put my two cents in on modesty, a topic I haven't given much thought to, except to occasionally wonder, what on earth are these kids today wearing? which is a sign of my old age. But there's some stuff about modesty around the blogosphere
The Oaf in the Office
Tuesday, 3 August 2004 2:55 P GMT-06
The Vatican has released a letter on women. It's always good to know what they think of us, isn't it? Just kidding. It's actually titled "On the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World." Amy Welborn, who I'd ca