Showing posts with label Lord's table. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lord's table. Show all posts
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Jesus' Crucifixion and Resurrection, and His Table Open to All: Why Politics Are Unavoidable on Good Friday and Easter

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Because of the very powerful slaveholder religion  (and here ) crafted by Southern Christian apologists for slavery, which pretends t...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Quote for the Day: "I Find Very Little Evidence in Christian Scriptures That Jesus Preferred Ritual Purity to Compassionate Love"

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In a sermon-essay just uploaded  (pdf file) to her Enduring Space website, Ruth Krall talks about the struggle within the Mennonite ...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Pope Francis Doesn't Want to Give Communion Accidentally to "An Unworthy Individual"

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This is one of the stinky sort of Catholic birdcage droppings: in a discussion of Michael Sean Winters's article "Pope Fran...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Whores and Tax Collectors and a Table Open to All: Adam Gopnik on Jesus's Eating with Outcasts

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I just finished Adam Gopnik's book The Table Comes First  (NY: Vintage Books, 2011), and found this observation in the final page...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

More Signposts for Exiled Believers, More Reflections on the Mike and Cathy Club

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More signposts for me from people who speak to my soul as I flounder in the wilderness, crying out to God, asking how to sustain a s...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Eating, Drinking, and Living in Exile: Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day and American Catholic Identity

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As I flounder in the wilderness, words that are signposts for me (I choose the word "flounder" instead of "wander...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Testimonies of Grace and the Vanishing Table

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I'm struck this morning by how perfectly congruent two postings are on blogs I follow: Claire Bangasser writes at her Seat at the Tabl...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Debates about Kosher and the Limits of Paternalism in Making of Religious Meaning

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With my recent focus on the aftermath of the California Supreme Court decision about prop 8, I don’t want to lose sight of a valuable articl...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

The Groaning Table: Holy Week Resources for Readers

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For readers for whom the theological-liturgical language of the Christian tradition is not yet an impediment to spiritual life, there are so...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

A Table with Room for All: Celebrating Steps to Racial Inclusion

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I awoke in the night with the picture at the head of this posting in my mind. It’s a picture taken from the first dinner the president-elec...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

We Are All Care of One Another

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I’m thinking these days about why so many avid readers around the world love Alexander McCall Smith’s African lady detective Precious Ramots...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Only One Table: An Ethical Analysis of the Churches' Treatment of Gay and Lesbian Persons

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Today is an historic day for those engaging in moral analysis of the treatment of gay and lesbian human beings by the Christian churches. ...
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