Tag: personal is political
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Dismay
I listened to Beth Allison Barr’s conversation with Pete Enns and Jared Byas on The Bible for Normal People this morning, while I was making coffee and sorting out tax forms, because I read her book, and I was interested. Her ideas are not what produced the dismay. What caused me dismay was hearing, towards…
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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
We did finally talk some about Daniel 9, but mostly our class turned into an occasion for people to confess some of the stresses and concerns of the immediate political season. “We are at an anniversary, you all.” “I wonder whether things have changed so that they can’t go back …” “I don’t know what…
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If I Had a Hammer …
I live in a rural area. We had to disconnect our “upgraded” “digital” cable many years ago, because the service was so lousy we could never watch our TV. After that, when we got hit by lightning the second time, we almost had our living room blow up because of the never-removed cable line into…
Matters of Interpretation 