October 2010
25 posts
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“The worst form of idolatry is not carving an image; it is the presumption that...”
– John Howard Yoder (via sillytothejoe)
Oct 31st
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Oct 30th
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“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop...”
– Mohandas Gandhi (via libraryland)
Oct 29th
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“When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social...”
– Archbishop Oscar Romero
Oct 29th
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“The church is the church only when it exists for others. To make a start, it...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, ed. Eberhard Bethge, New York: Simon & Schuster (1997), p. 382.
Oct 28th
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“Again we could modernize the text and be surprised, and perhaps usefully...”
– John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (1972), p. 45.
Oct 28th
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“We share a sneaking suspicion that the economic future of the church may have...”
– Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw, Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals, Grand Rapids: Zondervan (2008), 193.
Oct 27th
Oct 27th
of melons and lemons...
itsdesigned: see what I just came across. Hehe 
Oct 27th
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http://www.ethicsdaily.com/10-observations-about-th... →
Oct 27th
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“This same desire for textual surety manifests itself, it seems to me, in the...”
– Trevor Hart, Faith Thinking: The Dynamics of Christian Theology, Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 1995, p. 137
Oct 26th
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Out of the Wilderness, after 40 years or so...
“Beyond the desert of criticism, we long to be called again” -Paul Ricoeur, The Symbolism of Evil, quoted in Stephen R. Harmon, Towards Baptist Catholicity:  Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision, Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2006, p. 55. Early in my studies in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies, I was taught the Enlightenment values of “objectivity,” and...
Oct 26th
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“Wars are generally fought for material things; they’re not fought over...”
– Clarence Jordan
Oct 26th
Oct 26th
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“Once our personal connection to what is wrong becomes clear, then we have to...”
– Wendell Berry
Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
Oct 25th
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“we can never acheive this ‘wholeness’ [i.e....”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Oct 25th
Oct 25th
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“The basis of the vending machine is to reduce the library to a public-book...”
– James Lund, director of the Red Wing Public Library in Red Wing, Minn.
Oct 25th
Design of biblical proportions
itsdesigned: Jim LePage decided one day he wanted an interesting incentive to read through one of the oldest, most popular books around; the bible. He set himself up a challenge - create original designs for each book of the bible as he reads them. This isn’t your priest’s or grandma’s collection of posters though, these posters are beautiful, comical, and gruesome(ly great).  You need to...
Oct 25th
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“There is no mention in [Christ’s] gospels of his suffering from nature and...”
– Jurgen Moltmann
Oct 25th
Oct 25th
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“A religion that professes a concern for the souls of men and is not equally...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oct 24th
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“It is possible to hold the orthodox doctrine of the devil and not recognize him...”
– Walter Rauschenbusch
Oct 24th
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