All Blog Posts for February, 2013

Century Blogs

Thursday digest

Feb 28, 2013

New today from the Century: The winter life of bees, the sequester and other ridiculous things, more.

In the World

The sequester and other ridiculous things

Feb 28, 2013 by Steve Thorngate

So it’s looking unlikely that Washington will do anything to prevent the sequester, the automatic spending cuts put in place to try to force Washington to find a way forward on spending, from starting to take effect tomorrow. The president and congressional leaders will meet tomorrow to discuss next steps.

Hardly anyone likes the sequester—it was designed to be disliked—but no one has the right combination of power and incentives to simply repeal it, either.

Tribal Church

Mihee Kim-Kort: Making Paper Cranes

Toward an Asian-American feminist theology

Feb 28, 2013 by Carol Howard Merritt

How has the "myth of the model minority" affected the lives and work of Asian-American women? How is the myth used in our society? Please join Derrick Weston and I as we talk with Mihee Kim-Kort about her book Making Paper Cranes.

Century Blogs

Justice for Native American women

Feb 27, 2013 by Debra Bendis

If you haven’t realized the urgent need for an expanded Violence Against Women Act, read today’s New York Times, where novelist Louise Erdrich restates the theme that runs through her powerful novel The Round House (reviewed in a previous post): Native American women are being battered and raped by non-native men, and they have no legal support for pursuing justice—because non-natives are immune from prosecution by tribal courts.

Century Blogs

Wednesday digest

Feb 27, 2013

New today from the Century: Rodney Clapp on violence in movies, new blog feature by American religious historians, more.

Then and Now

Then and Now: A new weekly feature by American religious historians

Feb 27, 2013 by Edward J. Blum

This new blog feature harnesses the expertise of American religious historians who care about the cities of God and the cities of humans. It’s a space where scholarly expertise collides with the faith, hope and love of those of us who seek thoughtful reflection about our pasts to bear upon the confusing issues of our presents.

From the CCblogs Network

Vicious victory

Feb 26, 2013 by Evan D. Garner

Winning is dangerous. Whether you hoist the Lombardi Trophy or accept a golden statuette on stage, receiving the top prize in your field can lead to trouble. How many celebrated athletes and movie stars have crashed and burned just as the bubbles of success threatened to lift their feet off the ground?

Century Blogs

Tuesday digest

Feb 26, 2013

New today from the Century: James Howell reviews Lillian Daniel, Evan Garner on the downside of winning, more.

On the Shelf

Simplifying the Soul

Lenten Practices to Renew Your Spirit

By Paula Huston

A Lenten treasure hunt

Feb 26, 2013 by Amy Frykholm

My Lenten practice has almost involved some kind of endurance. As a child I usually gave up something like chocolate or sweets. My practice evolved into committing to walk to the grocery store or buy nothing but food or, one year, give up plastic.

But regardless of what I took on or gave up, I have always intended for this to last through all of Lent. The practice ends—or finds a new form—at Holy Week, and the endurance test ends with it.

This year, Lent has an entirely different rhythm for me—because of a book by writer and Benedictine oblate Paula Huston.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Grace or judgment?

Isaiah 55:1–9; Luke 13:1–9

Feb 25, 2013 by Yvette Schock

In this week’s Gospel lesson, Jesus says to the people,

Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No... Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? No.

No.

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