Archive for February, 2010
Friday, February 26th, 2010
food rules and papal visit?
Michael Pollan talks about his new book Food Rules: an Eater’s Manual. Take about four minutes to watch how food marketers respond to his criticism here
Also, make sure and check out the second episode of BBC’s program, Our Man in the Vatican. At about the 6 minute mark, the BBC comes to Durham and [...]
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
rick steves: travel guide or liberation theologian?
In a recent issue of The Christian Century, Amy Frykholm interviews Rick Steves. Here are some interesting excerpts:
“Frankly, many Christians are embarrassingly ethnocentric. They wear their Christianity on their sleeves and think everybody should be like them. I wish I could be their tour guide. I’d put them in a lousy hotel, make them [...]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
religion: who needs it? harvard does…
Lisa Miller, author of the upcoming book Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife, wrote an article in Newsweek last week called, Harvard’s Crisis of Faith. In this article Miller tries to make sense of why Harvard stopped making religion a requirement for their students. Here are some excerpts:
“My colleagues fear that taking [...]
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
monkey in your dreadlocks…
Anne Lamott has an op-ed in the LA Times about her trip to India and what it taught her about America. Here’s a clip from the article:
“But after a few days on the subcontinent, I came to the unshakable belief that we will have decent enough healthcare reform, and soon. What’s going to help America [...]
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
great sabbath – rowan williams
Great Sabbath
Unwatched, the seventh dawn spreads,
Light smoothing out the sky, firm hands
Smearing a damp clay horizon-wide.
They wake, then lie unsurely side by side,
Knowing the ache and pull of novel bands,
The night’s new memories grinding in their heads,
Not understood, their bodies newly strange.
Outside, the new light soaks the ground;
They chill, turn in towards each other’s heat,
Then [...]
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
wait… so theology does have political consequences?
Yesterday, CNN ran an article entitled: How Obama’s favorite theologian shaped his first year in office.
Read more about Niebuhr here.
So, it’s one thing if theology has influenced a particular politician. But one has to also ask, what is theology for? Ben Myers has some great thoughts for us about that:
“the whole purpose of theological [...]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
irish school of ecumenics – call for papers
CALL FOR PAPERS: FROM WORLD MISSION TO INTERRELIGIOUS WITNESSVISIONING ECUMENICS IN THE 21ST CENTURYJUNE 16-18, 2010TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (DUBLIN, IRELAND)
CONFERENCE THEMEThe Irish School of Ecumenics and the theological journal Concilium are pleased to announce a call to papers for the international conference: ‘From World Mission to Interreligious Witness: Visioning Ecumenics in the 21st Century’ (cf. [...]
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
houston, we have a problem…
This past week, I’ve been thinking more about health care reform in the U.S. I’ve been thinking about it for several reasons: 1) The ongoing debate in the U.S. 2) The State of the Union Address 3) April has been sick with a cold and went to the doctor today and my fourth reason comes [...]