Showing posts with label Augustine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Augustine. Show all posts
Friday, October 23, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "In Our Christian Heritage We Received from the Missionaries, There Is Nothing of That Inclusive Language"

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David Gibson writing for Religion News Service today: "In our Christian heritage we received from the missionaries, there is ...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Book Notes: Ronan Bennett's Havoc, in Its Third Year

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Ronan Bennett, Havoc, in Its Third Year  (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2004) :
Friday, November 23, 2012

Same-Sex Marriage and Families of Gay Couples: Two Theological Perspectives (and a Poem)

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The video: poet Alvin Lau declaiming his poem "Full Moon" at the opening round of individual finals at the 2006 National Poet...
Friday, November 20, 2009

The Mormon Church's Shift on Gay Rights: Lessons for the Nation

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There was a point I intended to make when I discussed the recent Mormon shift about gay rights a few days ago. And then I forgot to make i...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Augustine and Croaking Frogs: America Magazine on Sectarian Catholics

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America has just uploaded to its website an editorial entitled “Sectarian Catholicism” ( here ), and it’s a fine statement—a powerful one....
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Jindal on Obama: A Betrayal of Catholic Tradition about the Role of Government

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Returning for a moment to Andrew Sullivan’s blog today ( here ): Sullivan links to a discussion by David Brooks at Direct Democracy of Bobby...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Hucktown and Yourtown: Mike Huckabee Rewrites The City of God

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Read some of the classical writers of the formative period of Christianity—say, Augustine of Hippo—and then read some of the folks who claim...
Thursday, August 7, 2008

Theological Reflections on Gay Marriage: Prologue

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Yesterday the Huffington Post blog site posted a link to a Ruth Gledhill article in the Times (London), which publishes some of Rowan Willia...