Current Affairs

Doesn’t make sense to anyone … and certainly to young people …

I read Rene’s Stumbling Toward Faith not long after it came out in 2004. She linked to a letter written at the YS site for youth workers. Rene wrote,

Iâ??Ã?ôm feeling very vulnerable, adolescent, and easily traumatized today.

(I needed to know that all of this was not supposed

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Culture warring … iMonk does it well …

BwspencerspeakingFor some time I have been reading Michael Spencer at both Internetmonk.com and the BHT. I once sent an e-mail asking that if i ever had the opportunity to choose a speaker for one of our state events would Michael come. I think his reply was something like, … Continue reading

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Jack Bauer and Political Theology …

250px24tvJerome Eric Copulsky, Assistant Professor and Director of Judaic Studies at Virginia Tech, submitted an article to "Sightings", published by the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School, titled, "King of Pain: The Political Theologies of "24."" At issue is the moral … Continue reading

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Breath … could there be something to pausing before reacting? …

Parents of teenagers will readily identify with,

"But it really is a mood swing where things seem fine and calm, and then the next thing is someone’s crying or angry," she added. "And I think that’s why people have used the term ‘raging hormones.’"

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Good for the Gander … Darfur and gender …

Old adages cannot possibly rise to the occasion when the inequities of gender become a matter of life and death. But the idea two women should be sentenced to death while the men involved go free only exacerbates the horrors already a reality in Darfur.

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