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Good earth gnosticism
08.16.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Good earth gnosticismGnosticism gets a lot of guff for seeing the material world as something to be escaped from. I think that’s a caricature of gnosticism. Sure, the Used Car Salesman who created the world set up a lemon of a universe, but that doesn’t mean gnosticism has to be anti-body and anti-earth. Even if many flavors […]
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Did your seminary have a class on homemaking?
08.16.07 | Permalink | 6 CommentsThis one’s going to. I suppose it’s a prereq for an MRS degree.
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The gnosticism of John from Cincinnati
08.14.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI don’t know how many of you watch HBO’s John From Cincinanti. The long and short of it is that the Second Coming has come to a run down stretch of beach south of San Diego. Instead of Jesus of Nazareth, he’s John from Cincinnati. A recurring theme is John’s incomprehensibility. He just almost makes […]
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Linking epilepsy and bipolar disorder
08.14.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Linking epilepsy and bipolar disorderFolks with bipolar have been taking some of the same meds as folks with epilepsy for a while now. Might be a coincidence. Might mean they’re two ends of the same thing.
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So what does “great prophet” mean anyway?
08.13.07 | Permalink | 10 CommentsI hear it a lot. I’ve probably said it a lot. “Jesus is a great prophet.” “Great man” works just as well. Or “great teacher.” But what does it mean? Or, better, what does it mean that’s worth saying? Sometimes it seems like a brush off. Other times it feels like an honest to god […]
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Which Christianity are you rejecting?
08.12.07 | Permalink | 22 CommentsTo follow up on my questions for non-Christian UUs, I’m wondering which version of the Christian story you are rejecting. This sort of gets to the post at Philocrites a bit ago that called out how the version of Christianity we say we reject is a good 300 years old. So what about the version […]
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