From the CCblogs Network Posts for June, 2011

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What place is mine?

Jun 29, 2011 by Ryan Dueck

Times of transition are tough.  We currently find ourselves up to our ears in boxes and and clutter and mess as we prepare to pack up and head back across the Rockies next week to begin a new chapter in our lives as family.  We have done this moving thing a number of times now, but it never gets easier.

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The many feminisms and sexual ethics

Jun 27, 2011 by Melissa Florer-Bixler

In her essay in The Postcolonial Studies Reader, “First Things First,” Kirsten Holst Petersen writes about her experience attending a conference in Mainz on “The Role of Women in Africa.” She recalls the young German feminists discussing the “radical feminist solution” and debating their relationships with their mothers.

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Is God bald?

Jun 21, 2011 by James F. McGrath

I heard from a relative today a story about a younger child in our family who asked her parent if God has hair. The parent had at least enough theological sophistication to recognize that it is inappropriate to say “yes” in response to such a question, and so answered “No.”

The child looked puzzled, and said “So God is bald, then?”

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Real ____ would never do that!

Jun 20, 2011 by Ryan Dueck

I just returned from a glorious five days spent motorcycling through Washington and Oregon.

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The Board of Ordained Ministry as social media police

Jun 17, 2011 by Allan R. Bevere

Jeremy Smith at Hacking Christianity has written a post on the United Methodist Kentucky Annual Conference's decision requiring candidates for ministry to open all their social media to Board of Ordained Ministry review.

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Trinity Sunday: Blessing of the ordinary

Jun 14, 2011 by Jan Richardson

Each year when Trinity Sunday rolls around, ushering us into the season of the year known as Ordinary Time, my memory travels back to a Trinity Sunday many years ago. It was my last Sunday living in Atlanta, where I had gone to seminary and was now finishing a bonus year spent working on my first book and lingering with the seminary community.

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Whose outrage?

Jun 13, 2011 by Kari J. Lundgren

Yesterday, just in time for Pride,The Boston Globe ran an article titled “Canceled Mass outrages gays.” From the contents of the article, it seems to have been mis-titled.

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Subversive marriage

Jun 09, 2011 by David Warkentin

People often think things that are creative, or even subversive, in culture will be the newest or best things around - the type of ideas that no one else has thought of. Risk and originality go against the grain of what’s generally accepted as the norm.

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Inerrancy of the Bible and Sarah Palin

Jun 07, 2011 by James F. McGrath

The two possible meanings of the title of this post are intentional. It seems to me that the same tactics that Christians who believe in the Bible’s inerrancy use to deal with evidence to the contrary are the tactics being used to defend the inerrancy of Sarah Palin (and other politicians – Palin just provides one obvious recent example).

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Eternal life

Jun 03, 2011 by Steve Pankey

"And this is eternal life, to know the Father and his only Son Jesus Christ."