Sisters and Brothers: Turning from Beauty to Justice
Psalm 112, sungWelcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meet-up for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious...
View ArticleAtheists I appreciate.
One of the perennial features of Daily Kos is the a/theism pie-fight. One of these days, I need to go back to the Buddhist doctrine of non-duality, which made the particular opposition -...
View ArticleMy Activities on Rapture Day.
Well, first the cat had to torment me by meowing at 6 AM until I fed her at 7. This would be reasonable enough, after all it's when I usually feed her. But, I didn't go to bed until late last night,...
View ArticleMy Favorite Authors/Books: Rosemary Radford Ruether
A few years ago, I was heading out the door with my backpack packed, ready for a day of studying at the library. But I didn't get very far - a package with the copy of Goddesses and the Divine...
View ArticleTwo Degrees, Lights Out, Finding (or Making) Purpose
For a while now, scientists have been warning us of Global Warming. Collectively, we haven't been able to adjust. Each warning is more dire than the last. Since 2007, the IPCC has told us it's too...
View ArticleGrappling past hesitation to speech on queer whiteness
There's an essay by the late, great gay historian Allan Berube called "How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays" in The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, a collection of essays about white...
View Articleevolution, theology, in progress
Earlier today, I told someone I was taking a break from the site. Now, I'm feeling kind of brain dead and old habits die hard.For a while now, because I got tired of bumping into the unreflective...
View ArticleThe Rebirth of the Religious Left?
I'm not sure, but In These Times seems to think so. The big story of the next few decades, spiritually speaking, might be the re-emergence of the religious left as a powerful political force. What’s...
View ArticleA Chronicle of Religious (well, Christian) Affirmations of Evolution
A while back, I was sitting in my therapist's office, and he offered some perspective on an issue with a reminder that a dimension of the problem at hand could be traced to the basic "fight-or-flight"...
View ArticleGordon Kaufman: 1925-2011
Back when I was studying for my qualifying exams, I often would read a chapter of Gordon Kaufman's In Face of Mystery: A Constructive Theology to get myself in the mood to tackle the books - on...
View ArticleIt's Official! Conservatives Hate Me!
WHOOOT!!!Claremont Conservative: Dissertation Silliness of the DayYep - I wasn't even officially a doctor, and the maroons started slamming me. SWEET.Thank you, Claremont Conservative, for the free...
View ArticleSisters and Brothers: Our Help in Ages Past
Opening Hymn: O God Our Help in Ages PastWelcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meet-up for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses...
View ArticleBe There!!! Sacramento Rally Against Solitary Confinement
The National Religious Campaign Against Torture is holding a rally at the State Capitol against solitary confinement.Join us in Sacramento on August 23 NRCAT supporters will join several other advocacy...
View ArticleOpportunity for CA Kossacks to Oppose Solitary Confinement
The National Religious Campaign Against Torture is joining several prisoners' rights advocacy groups in hosting a rally prior to the California Public Safety Commission's hearings on Solitary Housing...
View ArticleSisters and Brothers: Evening Hymns
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meet-up for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may...
View ArticleThe Religious Left: Carter Heyward
If you don’t like triangulators, Carter Heyward may appeal to you. Heyward was one of a group of eleven women who broke the barrier to women’s ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church in...
View ArticlePro-Evolutionary Theology: 19th-Century Voices
So, it looks like Rick Perry is going to be shoving creationism down our throats for the rest of the campaign season. Lovely. This, of course, is wearying to me as a theologian because it will only...
View ArticleReligion on the Ground: Interfaith Worship Doubles since 9/11
A Christian Science Monitor article From Fear of Islam to Outreach notes thatOver the past 10 years, the percentage of US congregations involved in interfaith worship has doubled – from 7 to 14...
View ArticleThe Evening Before ...
I'm looking forward to the outpouring of solidarity tomorrow, with some apprehension of what the police will be doing when I arrive downtown Oakland tomorrow.In the meantime, I'm drifting around...
View ArticleNot/Christian
In an earlier missive, So, Like, Are You a Christian?, I expressed my impatience with being pigeonholed into religious categories. In this diary, I'm going to follow up on that photo diary with a more...
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