All Blog Posts for February, 2011

Blogging Toward Sunday

Illuminating the ordinary

Matthew 17:1–9; 2 Peter 1:16–21

Feb 28, 2011 by Amy Frykholm

Learning to see in new ways is one of the most difficult tasks of the transformed life. Old habits of selective vision, old choices about what to leave out and what to focus on tend to dominate us, even as we search for new ways of living that are in closer communion with the life of the Spirit. Transfiguration--that mysterious transformation of vision that is narrated in today's readings--is a radical, if brief, way of illumination.

In the World

Why don't conservatives like AmeriCorps?

Feb 25, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

With a government shutdown looming due to federal-budget deadlock, House Republicans are proposing a stopgap measure--not a compromise but a short-term enactment of the massive budget cuts passed last week by the House but dismissed by the Democratic-controlled Senate and White House.

Century Blogs

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Feb 25, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

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A helpful Libya primer from Mother Jones.

From the CCblogs Network

I'm worried

Feb 24, 2011 by Steve Pankey

It is 3:13 on Thursday afternoon and I still have eight sermons bouncing around in my skull. I'm not so much worried about tomorrow, I'm certain this Friday will have enough worries of its own. I'm not even worried about Saturday evening's five15 because the conversation format means I don't have to have one direction nailed down when the service starts.

From the CCblogs Network

Musing about the space between

Feb 24, 2011 by Tripp Hudgins

There is a region between home and the forbidden, states a friend and colleague of mine. It's not a border in the NRSV, but a region, an actual space that Jesus goes to. It's where the unwanted are.

From the CCblogs Network

Not my people

Feb 23, 2011 by James Sledge

"May I continue to find favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, even though I am not one of your servants."  If you knew that these words were from the Bible, but did not know the context, what would you suppose they meant?  In the Old Testament, Israel is often s

On the Shelf

India Calling

An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking

by Anand Giridharadas

The new, old India

Feb 23, 2011 by Debra Bendis

"In the ordinary course of human affairs countries churn slowly. . . and then there are moments of special upheaval, when empires depart, when ideologies rotate. . . . India was in the midst of such a moment. The meanings of destiny, family, love, class--of what it means to be Indian--were being defined anew by millions of people, all at once."

In the World

Wisconsin's fight over unions' right to exist

Feb 22, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

The fight Wisconsin's governor picked with state workers isn't about balancing the budget, and it isn't about making them pay for more of their benefits. It's about destroying unions.

Blogging Toward Sunday

What we buy and who we are

Matthew 6:24–34

Feb 21, 2011 by Susan Kendall

Money and what we do with it--this sounds like an even-handed way to determine ethical standards. But in these times of supposed transparency, I can't figure out how a nation like the United States keeps going when it has debt in numbers beyond anyone's ability to comprehend or even pronounce. How many zeros?

From the CCblogs Network

Does God love of necessity?

Feb 21, 2011 by Robert Cornwall

When we say, with the author of 1 John, that "God is Love," what do we mean by this? According to this text, if taken quite literally, it is not simply that God loves whom God chooses to love, but God's essence is love.

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