Will Shetterly links to a piece detailing the feudal atrocities of Tibet under the Dalai Lamas.  (Also links on the Hindu Caste system, the Crusades, and Saudi Arabia.)

Trying something new today. Each Friday I’ll be posting a small handful of posts by fellow Daily Scribes that you should check out. Here we go:

• “From the neck up“ Comedian Jeffrey Ross visits Keith Olbermann and goes off on Mell Gibson. (Jewschool)
• “Who are lazier: Poor people or the middle class?“ Columnist David Brook says the US middle class is lazy now, and Mik Moore looks at the numbers. (jspot)
• “The worship show“ Hafidha Sofía tackles white appropriate of ethnic culture for worship. (Never Say Never to Your Traveling Self)
• “Martin Luther King, Jr. struggled with Reinhold Niebuhr’s pessimism“ Pacifism versus nonviolence. (A People So Bold!)
• “Teaching kids how to be religious“ The eighth part in a continuing series by RE guy Dan Harper. (Yet Another Unitarian Universalist)

I was pleased to see that two college buddies I’d lost touch with have blogs filling me in on everything.  War on Terror veteran Contact with the World and current seminarian Questions and Rants (aka deaconess_grrl here in comments).

I was listening to my fellow Okie expat Woody Guthrie on the way home tonight and came across this gem:

While we are on the subject of hard work,
I just wanted to tell you that I am a man who likes hard work.
I was born working and I worked my way up to hard work.
I ain’t ever got nowhere, but I got there by hard work…

Every wonder what ministers don’t learn in seminary? Quite a bit that you’d think they would need to know. I compiled this incomplete list with my pal Silver Tongued Devil, a fellow seminary graduate. All of these are from our own seminary experiences or those of close friends. Please add your own at the end, and if you take exception to any, please tell us where the good stuff happened. Click to continue reading “28 things they won’t teach you in seminary”

Are you morally fashionable?