March 2012
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And Mary said, I am the servant of my God, I live...
My soul proclaims your greatness, O Lord, And my spirit rejoices in you. You have looked with love on Your servant here And blessed me all my life through.
Great and mighty are you, O Holy One, Strong is your kindness evermore; How you favor the weak and lowly one, Humbling the proud of heart.
You have cast the mighty down from their thrones And uplifted the humble of heart; You have filled the...
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February 2012
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another ramble about sexuality and religion, from...
Y’know, there’s a tension between my sexuality and my religion, but it’s not within me. It’s outside me. It’s a tension the world creates. I have never personally entertained, for maybe more than five minutes, the idea that God doesn’t want me to be gay and be in relationship with another woman. So even though I was extremely depressed to be so separate from...
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"Ash Wednesday: I" by T. S. Eliot
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign? Because I do not hope to know again The infirm glory of the positive hour Because I do not think Because I know...
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“In the afternoon, a couple of us gathered at the bus stop shelter at Randolph...”
– Pastor Jodi Houge, “Ashes, Bus Stops, and Parks”
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“I retain from my childhood and my experiences growing up, a suspicion of dogma....”
– Barack Obama, March 2004, in an interview with Cathleen Falsani
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Photopic Sky Survey →
The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures. Large in size and scope, it portrays a world far beyond the one beneath our feet and reveals our familiar Milky Way with unfamiliar clarity. When we look upon this image, we are in fact peering back in time, as much of the light—having traveled such vast distances—predates...
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“The church has made us Galileo, who, legend says, whispered, “But still it...”
– Maura Casey, “Catholic women must speak out about birth control,” Star Tribune
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“Sure, this war on women from the right wing of politics is nothing new. But the...”
– Dorothy, “My Lady Business, Myself”
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How I Learned to Eat Greens by Blyth →
radicalsocialworker:
Shame and eating for a poor fat girl is a layered thing. There was the shame of being hungry, of feeling watched every time I put something to my mouth. And there was also the shame that had to be endured just to get the food in the first place. People make a lot of assumptions about poor folks on welfare. Like we’re all just taking a vacation on the system. Somehow my large...
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New York Times: "How Companies Learn Your Secrets" →
Fascinating article on predictive marketing and habit forming psychology, highlighted by a history of the “pregnancy prediction score” for Target customers.
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“The way for the creative community (and indeed, the entire world) to address...”
– www.tomandlorenzo.com (via tomandlorenzo)
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a ramble about queer life, emailed to a friend...
I’m gonna be honest: it is not always a great world that we live in. When you hear rants about how “it gets better” doesn’t do a thing for a lot of teenagers, believe it. Sometimes it’s what’s needed in the moment; sometimes we just need the promise of dawn to get us through the dark night.
But sometimes there are a lot of dark nights in a row and...
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“This is not a season of taking up self-denial, it’s a season of relinquishment....”
– Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber, “Why I Love Ash Wednesday and Lent, Part Two: Death”
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“Because here’s the thing: while you can — if you really work hard to...”
– Mike Lux, “What Bible Is Santorum Reading?”, Huffington Post
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“But when sin is boiled down to low self esteem and immorality then it becomes...”
– Nadia Bolz-Weber, “Why I love Ash Wednesday and Lent, Part 1: Sin”
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“Let every Apostle who comes to you be received as the Lord, but let him not stay...”
– Chapter four of the Didache, the document from 100 CE called “The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles”, on how to identify a false prophet / apostle.
Basically: if you mooch off the hospitality and generosity of Christians, more than your due, you are a false prophet.
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“On this Wednesday, we submit our ashen way to you —
you Easter parade of...”
– from “Marked by Ashes,” by Walter Brueggeman
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“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege.
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“But women’s ordination cannot be treated as a side issue, nor can...”
– - me, on a book assigned for class
General rule for my professors: be warned that if you assign a text that, on the second page of the introduction, states that:
“Only so [by compassion] can we see behind the status of divorce, or homosexuality, or disability to discover complex persons...
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“I am more and more convinced that the fewer options and choices we offer...”
– Erik Doughty’s great summary of the blog post “Why You Will Need A Priest, If You’re Lucky”
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“We preach from the middle places, from the places that are between the rocks and...”
– Mandy Brobst-Renaud, “Preaching from the Middle”
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“Rather than change I won’t recognize, I’m more afraid of getting stuck in a deep...”
– Rev. Adam Copeland, “A Place We Don’t Recognize Anymore”
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we have a bishop (-elect)!
a-vicar-of-minneapolis:
Congratulations (and the peace of the Lord) to Pastor Ann Svennungsen, the new bishop-elect of the Minneapolis Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Among our “mutual friends” on facebook are Rev. Barbara Lundblad (excellent preacher and partnered lesbian clergy); Rev. Bradley Schmeling (excellent preacher and partnered gay clergy); a fellow I know...
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“On a somewhat serious note today because of a conversation the other day:
I...”
– You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face « Views from the Couch (via golden-notebook)
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“On the gurney lay a young woman the color of white marble. The red pool between...”
– Anatomy of an unsafe abortion « Dr. Jen Gunter (via boing boing)
This is what happens when you make abortion in particular and healthcare in general illegal or prohibitively difficult to access.
(via swirlspice)
As a child of God, and a future pastor, who believes in the rights of others to...
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“Racism is still a really big issue in this country especially around immigration...”
– Hari Kondabolu - Mexican Stereotypes
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