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August 2007
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firefox, jesus
Now you can use Jesus’ browser
08.10.07 | Permalink | 6 CommentsChurch 2.0 just pointed me to a new Firefox plugin called Bible Fox, which changes your browser’s buttons into fishes and doves, crosses and churches. I think I hear Jesus crying.
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empire, ideology
Empire is dead, long live Empire
08.10.07 | Permalink | 7 CommentsThe trouble with Empire is its persistence. Empire falls down now and again, but it always gets up. What’s worse, those who push it down usually help it get back up. If they’re lucky enough to kill Empire, they find themselves becoming its latest incarnation. Empire is dead, long live Empire. Anti-Empire means well, but […]
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empire, evil, gnosticism, gnostics, theodicy
The empire never ended
I finished up Philip K. Dick’s freaky book VALIS last night. It’s gnostic, and if there’s anything consistently true about Gnostic writing, it’s that it’s freaky. “Phildickian” gnosticism does not disappoint on that account. There’s the VALIS—the Vast Active Living Intelligence System—which controls the world and even creates it. There’s the Black Iron Prison, which […]
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bipolar, mental-health
A spike through the head
We know the brain is changed by bouts of mental illness, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we know it. Joel Stottlemier goes to the mat for his fellow bipolars: I don’t have a cold that I’m going to get over and be better in a week. I’ve had a spike shot through my head and […]
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empire, globalization
Alternatives to empire
08.08.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Alternatives to empireJust a quick shout out to a cool blog: Alternative2Empire. (Mission statement. Values statement.)
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relevance, theology, UU
But is it snake bite relevant?
08.04.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments“Is UU history relevant?” seems to be the question of the hour. I want to add a word of caution. Relevance isn’t a project. It isn’t something you prove or disprove. To say that coming from the other direction, if you have to prove something is relevant, it isn’t relevant. Modern Christianity raged with the […]
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