August 2008
The Archives
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biden, catholic, palin, pentecostal, speaking-in-tongues
Does Sarah Palin speak in tongues?
08.29.08 | Permalink | 21 CommentsDigg it, diggers. So CNN put up a compare and contrast list between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. It listed his religion as Catholic and hers as Christian. WTF? Putting aside the implication that Catholics are somehow different from, I can only assume, real Christians, I looked Palin up to see exactly what flavor of […]
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addkison, evil, knoxville
Addkison meant it
08.25.08 | Permalink | 6 CommentsI was grateful to see Meg Barnhouse’s article in UUWorld this morning. I’ve been sitting on an angry blog post for several days now, and she has said many things about the Knoxville shotting that I wanted to say, but far more gracefully. Addkison meant to kill UUs. He knows who we are and what […]
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evangelicalism, universalism
Universalist evangelicals stepping out of the closet
08.19.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Universalist evangelicals stepping out of the closetAnother article about the fragmentation and decline of the evangelical movement and the arguments about how to fix it. This is the first one I’ve read that showcases universalists (besides Carlton Pearson) speaking up for themselves. Some of them believe that instead of calling their reading of the Bible “the truth,” they need to admit […]
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reverence, snark
Reverence and snark
08.14.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Reverence and snarkFrom Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue by Paul Woodruff: In our time we hear more praise of irreverence than we do of reverence, especially in the media. That is because we naturally delight in mockery and we love making fun of solemn things. It is not because, in our heart of hearts, we despise reverence. […]
