Showing posts with label Karen Armstrong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Karen Armstrong. Show all posts
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Faith Defined as Dogma Is Weaponized Faith: A Theological Footnote to Father Jenkins' Response to Senator Feinstein re: Catholic Dogma

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I'd like to add a theological footnote to what I posted yesterday reflecting on the recent claim of Notre Dame University presid...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Notre Dame President Father Jenkins Responds to Senator Feinstein: "'Dogma Lives Loudly' . . . Is a Condition We Call Faith" (But No, It's Not)

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At a hearing last week, Senator Diane Feinstein grilled federal judge nominee (and Notre Dame University law professor) Amy Coney Ba...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Advent: Meditating About "The Humorless Puzzle of Inequality and Hate"

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Another Advent offering for you today from a log of quotations I've kept over the years as I've read: as with yesterday's se...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Quote for Day: Leonardo Boff on Link Between Christ and Krishna, Charisma and Caritas — Questions Worth Asking

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Leonardo Boff, at his blog site several days ago:
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Chris Hedges on Treatment of Least Among Us as Litmus Test for Morality

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In a posting yesterday discussing the Affordable Care Act and the U.S. Catholic bishops, I stated that American Catholics are not li...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Mark Silk on the Revival of the Crusades as 2012 Election Cycle Begins

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As a follow-up to what I posted yesterday about Rick Santorum and his recent remarks about the crusades, I'd like to point to a very va...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Righteous Christians and Unrighteous Gays: The Educational Challenge Facing Churches Today

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An update to the story about which I blogged Thursday , a story unfolding in my own state the past several days: Clint McCance, the vice-pr...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Mike Huckabee on Gay Adoption as Not Ideal, and the Churches' Need for Enemies

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Former Arkansas governor (and Southern Baptist minister) Mike Huckabee told Rosie O’Donnell this week that permitting gay couples to adop...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Karen Armstrong on Theology as a Species of Poetry

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  Karen Armstrong's Spiral Staircase (NY: Random House, 2004): This, of course, is how we should approach religious discourse.  Theol...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Postscript On the Disappearance of Poetry and Passion from American Catholicism

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  This is a postscript to my posting earlier today. When I speak of the disappearance of poetry and passion from contemporary American Cat...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008

The Two Tables Again: Communion and communion

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Dear Readers, Some intent readers of my blog have questioned my emphasis on the connection between Communion and communion—between the ...
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Monday, March 3, 2008

Love Comes of Its Own Accord

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There are the days when spirit flags, when I listen to a playlist of songs I’ve named Soul Songs—Pete Seeger singing “We Shall Overcome,...