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Oh, it's nice to be home for the holidays |
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Written by Brian E Volck
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
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I hate, I despise your festivals,
and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals
I will not look upon.
Take away from me the noise of your songs;
I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Amos 5:21-24 A Jewish friend once told me that he never felt so alien in America as he did at Christmastime. I was in listening mode when he spoke, so I didn’t respond with what first came to mind, namely, “Me too, buddy, me too.” |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 05 December 2007 )
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Written by Tobias Winright
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Thursday, 29 November 2007 |
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In the 11/29/07 Sightings, which comes from the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School, William Schweiker, who is the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School and director of the Martin Marty Center, has written an interesting and important column, "Baptism by Torture." In it he convincingly observes "that the practice of waterboarding has roots in the Spanish Inquisition and parallels the persecution of Anabaptists during the Protestant Reformation and the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation." Because Sightings permits columns to be republished in full, I am pasting it here. |
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Written by Brian E Volck
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007 |
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 I know how I'll be spending the day after Thanksgiving. Eve LaPlante, however, has me rethinking how I should spend the day itself. How much can you alter and update a community practice without destroying the practice? |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 05 January 2008 )
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