All Blog Posts for October, 2012

From the CCblogs Network

Wait, what? You're a liberal?

Oct 31, 2012 by John Nash

Recently I was having a conversation with someone and I said that a certain author was too conservative for me, but that his material could certainly be adapted to other uses, and they responded that I was one of the most conservative people they know. Through a little more dialogue I told them that I was not in fact a conservative, but was in fact a flaming liberal.

Century Blogs

Wednesday digest

Oct 31, 2012

New today from the Century: Craig Barnes on leaving his congregation, Steven Porter on the Supreme Court and DOMA, more.

Century Blogs

Legislating from the bench?

Oct 31, 2012 by Steven Porter

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to consider whether to grant review of the Defense of Marriage Act. This follows the recent appellate court decision declaring the 16-year-old law unconstitutional. Judges in New York and Boston have now said DOMA violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause and interferes with a state’s right to set marriage eligibility requirements.

But the final word will come from the Supreme Court.

From the CCblogs Network

Visiting my dad

Oct 30, 2012 by Diane Roth

I got a call recently to visit someone in the hospital. I didn't know her well, but I recognized her name, and when I got to the hospital, I remembered her husband. Two of her four daughters were there. They were not sure about their mother's prognosis, so we prayed to strength for whatever the future would bring.

Then I went to visit my dad at the nursing home.

In the World

More evidence that the agricultural system is a mess

Oct 30, 2012 by Steve Thorngate

Critics of the food movement's emphasis on organic, smaller-scale and local/regional agriculture tend to point out that feeding the world requires large-scale, conventional farming. But we're already producing more food than we need. The problem is drastic inequalities of access.

A new report from Oxfam (pdf) highlights one particularly egregious force behind these inequalities: foreign speculators buying up farmland in poor countries.

Century Blogs

Tuesday digest

Oct 30, 2012

New today from the Century: Rodney Clapp's personal soundtrack, Diane Roth on visiting her dad at the nursing home, more.

In the World

Links? Links.

Oct 29, 2012 by Steve Thorngate

Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about: A prayer for Hurricane Sandy, end the town-hall debate, more.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Pre-election themes for All Saints

Revelation 21:1–6a; John 11:32-44

Oct 29, 2012 by Heidi Neumark

Many churches, including mine, will mark All Saints Day this Sunday. Of course, politics will also be on everyone’s mind. At first it seemed to me that the two have little in common, but then several connections occurred to me.

Century Blogs

Monday digest

Oct 29, 2012

New today from the Century: The editors on topics the campaign avoided, Martin Copenhaver reviews Anthony Robinson and Robert Wall, more.

From the CCblogs Network

Deep acting at 35,000 feet, and in the grocery-store line

Oct 26, 2012 by MaryAnn McKibben Dana

My friend Jan recently uninstalled the Disaster Alert app on her phone. Her hope was that the app would move her to pray and respond to natural and human-inflicted disasters as they happened. Instead, the app overwhelmed her and stressed her out.

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