random things
try these on for size:
- titusonenine has some diocesan statistics from the episcopal diocese of montana, my third favorite m-state and future home of my godson, charles xavier stevens, and his soon-to-be-priest pop
- dr. barbara j. resch's yours, mine or ours: teenagers' perceptions of church music. it might not be what you think it is. (thanks, amy @ openbook)
- from ct -- "weblog: episcopal church officially promotes idol worship." one of ct's most read articles last year, it recounts the use of certain feminine liturgy that "promotes pagan rites to pagan deities" under the auspices of ecusa's office of women's ministries. to me, this is shocking stuff (in spite of the tone of the ct piece).
- a beliefnet debate piece in which a friend and former law professor of mine defends pope pius xii from charges of anti-semitism: read postwar catholics, jewish children, and a rush to judgment (thanks to amy for this one, too)
posted by Sammy @ 11:25 PM
2 Comments:
At 11:22 PM,
Anonymous said…
What? No comment on the amount of money that was spent today to welcome a President into office that is already in that office. While money was being spent on the Pomp and Circumstance, How many of our boys died in Iraq today? How many children did not eat supper? How many battered women could not find a shelter? How many scientists did not get a grant to find that new drug that could have saved your life?
If only the $40 millon had been spent on something better!
Guess Who?
At 12:45 AM,
Sammy said…
uh, seth? gotta be seth. i agree w/ your assessment (and i participated in not one damn dime day, for all the good it probably did); however, i do question whether the size of the expenditure was the real motivating factor for a lot of the criticism of the inaugural festivities or whether the guy @ the podium would've been criticized even if he spent only a handful of dimes instead of $41 mil. you may have noticed i don't write a lot about politics on here, which is probably a holdover from scotch & theology sessions in essex, mass., where the only rule was that we couldn't talk about politics b/c it is just too divisive. yet i'm getting frustrated w/ dancing around the subject of politics just on that basis, and i'm interested to see what guys like jim wallis @ sojo.org have to bring to the debate. he talks a lot about justice and faith and hope, about taking the moral high ground back from the religious far right or @ least reclaiming some of it for those of us (meaning: me) who are a tinge embarassed to be orthodox on sunday and a liberal the rest of the week. if anybody's read god's politics, i'd love to hear what you think about it. that being said, i'll still be praying for "our president, george" on sunday, and i think cranmer would be proud.
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