January 2012
1 post
“Christianity is not supposed to make you secure. Christianity is supposed to...”
– Bishop John Shelby Spong
September 2011
2 posts
“Kissing is not merely a playful obligation on the way to sex. To kiss—really...”
– Black Hockey Jesus
Dance like Thom York is watching.
July 2011
1 post
“Jefferson and Kant would have been bewildered at the changes that have taken...”
– Richard Rorty
June 2011
3 posts
Burying Dad
Next month I travel to Massachusetts to bury my father. He died in November. On the sixteenth. I found out about it on the seventeenth. On Facebook. Stephen Lee Beggs. It’s June. We’ll be putting his carbon in the ground in July. There’s too much distance between between his death and his funeral.
Funerals ought to happen as soon as possible after a person dies. It used to be...
Bristling Divisions
Dear President Obama,
No other, single cultural factor divides Americans, one from another, more than methods of toothbrush preparation. The gulf between those who wet the bristles of their brush before inserting it into their mouth and those who do not is real. And it is wide. Of course, a divide exists within the wet-brush community itself; there are those who wet their bristles before they...
“My needs are few. I hope to see a good movie, well projected, with decent sound,...”
– Roger Ebert
April 2011
1 post
“No introduction doesn’t speak his own name
Gonna beat them demons at they...”
– Atmosphere, “When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold”
Painting
February 2011
1 post
December 2010
1 post
“Architecturally they couldn’t be more dreary and conventional — bloated glass...”
– Saudi Arabia’s new “special economic zone.”
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
4 posts
“Nevertheless, the question still remains as to what continuity there may be to...”
– Sheila Briggs, “The Politics of Identity and the Politics of Interpretation.”
“What is perceived to be ‘in the text’ is a function of interpretive...”
– -Stanley Fish, Is There a Text In This Class?
I would add, “in the world.”
WatchDigging in.
3 tags
July 2010
2 posts
“Beck has misread Cone. Black theology continually talks about the way in which...”
– Glen Beck’s Cheap Grace — Karyn Carlo
June 2010
6 posts
3 tags
“Jazz is not just ‘Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.’...”
– Wynton Marsalis on spirituality jazz.
"They sing a hymn antiphonally to Christ as God" →
swad:
A fascinating essay on Pliny the Younger, who observed the destruction of Pompeii and is one of the first writers to mention a then-strange sect of Romans who were called “Christians.”
“BJ Gallagher, a Huffington Post blogger who writes about spirituality …...”
– SBNR, via Schott’s Vocab
To separate various spiritualities, once fully integrated into the meaning and logic of the traditions that gave birth to them, and equate them to pickles and lettuce is a perfect example of the force of capitalism on the minds and hearts of those coming of age at the...
“Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, The Surprise of Being a Christian
May 2010
3 posts
“When we pray in the Pslam, ‘O Lord, deliver us from fear of our enemies,’ it is...”
– Kathleen De Sutter Jordan. “The Nonviolence of Dorothy Day.” From Christ to the World. 445.
Sincere Theater and No More Apologies
ON THE STAGE:
Ron Kirkland the classic hero. His refrain “gays were taken care of,” though he cannot describe the how or why. Tea Party “Activists“/Baggers/Bigots the faceless chorus, the mob. And we their audience, paid admission, paid attention, standing ovation but outraged. Outraged!
“He should apologize!” The cry of the critics. The uninvited audience,...
April 2010
4 posts
The Profane Love of Christ
The following: M. Shawn Copeland thinking through Lonergan’s fivefold dynamics of Love, beginning in the light of the divine and moving through humanity into the diversity of our expressions of love. A meditation on the human love of the divine, Copeland writes, “As a human, Christ loves other human being with a human love. The love with which Christ loves us, Lonergan...
“Ms. Gerwig, most likely without intending to be anything of the kind, may well...”
– Indeed. Check out Greenberg. She really does shine, and so does Ben Stiller.
An Apophatic Meditation Via Twitter
ta da!
Daring Fireball iPad Review Roundup
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/31/ihnatko
In fact, after a week with the iPad, I’m suddenly wondering if any other company is as committed to invention as Apple. Has any other company ever demonstrated a restlessness to stray from the safe and proven, and actually invent things?
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/31/mossberg
After spending hours and hours with it, I believe this...