Tue - April 14, 2009
Holiday Conflicts
By Martin Marty from the April 13, 2009,
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Fri - April 27, 2007
Military Journal - by Rev. Sally McClain
Here in Kentucky my boss, Greg, also
publishes a blog. He asked one of the Disciple pastors in
Kentucky who has two children in the military if she would send us some of her
thoughts.
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Mon - February 5, 2007
THINKING ALOUD: Ostentatious piety
After reading this article on Islam by
Razi Azmi from the Daily Times, I could not help but wonder if
Christianity is not living through this very problem. There is a segment of
Christianity hung up on ritual and another working to divorce itself from ritual
to regain the spirituality of Christianity. I often hear a person reference a
lack of spirituality in a church, seminary, or other religious experience, but
when ask no one can tell me what is meant my spirituality. Have reduced
spirituality into the newest drug and the church or para-church organizations
into neighborhood pharmacies?
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Thu - February 1, 2007
For Palestinians, the World is a Dangerous Place
Few articles so clearly point out
the log in our own eye as does this one by Joharah Baker. This article on the
Palestine Chronicle online lays out our countries slowness to do the right thing
about all sorts of discrimination. It is not the stuff of high school history
books because we don't teach students to learn from the past or their mistakes,
rather many 'teach to the test' not because they want to, but because school
systems and no child left behind tells them to so politicians can say we have
public education. It was not until I reached a college American history course
when these less family stories were shared. I don't think this is 'bad
mouthing' our country, but I am sure that some will email me the 'love it or
leave it' comment about America. This is a harsh article but one that
challenges the 'empire' thinking that has quietly swept our
nation.
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Fri - January 12, 2007
Critical and faithful
I found this article on The Christian
Century online, January 9, 2007. These are thoughts from the Editor's desk.
These are good words and they are particularly important for the Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ) if we are to remain a relevant, unique part of
American religious landscape.
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Wed - October 4, 2006
After the Ash Heap
A sermon preached at Lexington
Theological Seminary Chapel service on Sept. 12, 2006. The service was designed
around the stages of grief as the seminary community remembered the lives lost
on September 11, 2001; and those lost since war has
begun.
The scripture
text for the sermon is Job
42:11-17.
The preacher is
Rev. Dr. Lisa W.
Davison
Professor of First
Testament @ LTS
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Mon - April 10, 2006
No More of This!
A meditation for Holy Week, 2006,
by Dr. Will Willimon
Luke 22: 35-38, 47-51
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Tue - March 14, 2006
Reflections from the Middle East
Islamic scholar and professor Akbar
Ahmed, who wrote the forward to “The Beliefnet Guide to Islam,” is
traveling for two months throughout the Muslim world with two of his
students--Hailey Woldt and Frankie Martin and research assistant Hadia
Mubarak--to learn what Muslims think, and how they really view America. | from
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