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In February I had my annual physical. Some of my friends used to make fun of me for having started having annual physicals at age 30. "Man, your healthy, physicals are for old people or unhealthy people." On the contrary, how much better help can a doctor give when they have a baseline of what you look like healthy. In ...
A friend of ours, Joel Garver, has a chapter in a fascinating book in Blackwell's Philosophy and Pop Culture series entitled The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for ...
Why is the Friday that God was tortured and died called "Good"? For Christians it is because by God's suffering and death we are given life; we who were once aliens and orphaned by Death are now adopted by Life. Only God could reach down Death's throat and pull out Life; for He has trampled down Death by His death.Suffering, ...
The following is an interesting newsletter from the Progressive Center that I thought worth relaying here:
They came seeking coffee and conversation. They left with sense of camaraderie and maybe a new friend or two. On Saturday, March 27th, the Central Dallas chapter of the Coffee Party came to the Progressive Center for their second meeting. As a good host, I was ...
It's interesting to me that in the relatively minute history of the United States, concern over states rights seems to be invoked at times when the Federal Government is insisting that states take care of their disenfranchised citizens.The suit argues that the legislation's mandate that individuals purchase health insurance exceeds the federal government's power to regulate interstate commerce under the ...
This book looks interesting...
"Liberating Black Theology" book promo from Joseph D. Martinez on ...
Forsaking the status quo (aka, the old life)Malcolm had a radical conversion experience while in prison. His conversion certainly involved turning from an immoral path to a moral one; however, I would make the case that more fundamental aspect of this experience was the distillation of identity.For Malcolm being a Muslim was who he became. It was not a mere ...
In lieu of the enormous and devastating earthquake in Haiti, Evangelical Pat Robertson stated that the earthquake was a result of the Haitians making a pact with the Devil that they might be delivered from French occupation.Of course the French Colonialists were doing God's will expanding White European imperialism across the world as the waters cover the earth. If ...
The Other echoes filling full the hall,
Expanding, consuming, lifting beyond.
Melodious mixture in swollen drops fall;
Buoyant waters raising the moribund.Breathless beauty, singular, weighty, thick
Mingles with the shadows, dances on light.
Clarion harmony exudes to wick
Us from ourselves, an undivided rite.Upon the water’s wave in given flood,
In transubstantiated bond, that we
Infused, indistinguishable in Blood,
May resound Eucharistic melody.I started tying to code a website ...
One question we must ask is whether or not racism is merely behavioral. The teaching of Jesus sheds some light on the nature of behavior and its relationship to the whole of our persons. St. Matthew records:1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 2 "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For ...
Christians believe that not all that is present and even dominant in our world and culture was created or intended by the Creator. The Bible records that God created humanity as his image to proliferate his likeness and to do so in fellowship with him. Science has underscored that the genetic variation between one race and another is the same ...
On November 4, 1956 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached a most creative sermon bringing to bear the Apostle Paul's teaching on American nation and culture, calling America to "reach out" and "discover" God's grace, which stands in the "midst of man's tragic sin".This sermon is as relevant today as it was 52 years ago. Today, America inaugurates her first ...
