Showing posts with label Presbyterian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Presbyterian. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Ruth Krall, Historical Meandering: Ideologies of Abuse and Exclusion (1)

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Vasily Polenov, Le droit du Seigneur (1874) (i) The essay by Ruth Krall that follows below is the fifth in a series of essays ent...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Michael Boyle on Princeton Seminary Controversy: "Progressive Christianity Only Has a Future if Progressive Christians Have the Courage of Their Convictions"

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Because I think this conversation is essential — and important — I'd like to add one more statement to the set of reflections I...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Anita Little Comments on Princeton Controversy: "Growing Trend to Cry 'Oppression' When the Opinions of Influential White Men" Are Challenged

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In an essay entitled "The 'Marginalization' of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression," Anita Litt...
Friday, March 24, 2017

The Princeton Seminary Controversy: Concluding Thoughts About White Male Privilege and Intersectionality

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The discussion about the furor regarding Princeton Seminary's decision to withhold its Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Th...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Princeton Seminary Steps Back from Award for Pastor Who Promotes Female Subordination, Opposes Ordination of Women and Openly Gay Folks: Controversy Ensues

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Yesterday, following controversy, Princeton Theological Seminary Seminary reversed a decision to give its Kuyper Prize for Excellenc...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

A Sunday Resource: BBC Scotland Program on Slavery and Song

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A month ago, I shared with you a wonderful resource compiled by my friend Ian Gilmour, a Church of Scotland pastor. As I noted, Ian ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

O Tempora, O Mores: On the Politico-Religious Uses of the Calvinist Myth in American Culture

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I blogged yesterday about an emerging neoconservative meme represented in yesterday’s op-ed piece by David Brooks in the New York Times . ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Recent News: Prop 8, Church of Scotland, Mainline Clergy and Gay Issues, and Obama and Human Rights

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Because of the long weekend and yesterday’s holiday in the U.S., many readers may have taken a temporary break from reading the news and the...
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Accidie and Running from Whales

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Sometimes I feel itchy inside—in heart and soul—and when that happens, I know I’m entering into a period of what early Christian monks of th...
Sunday, February 3, 2008

The Sounds of Silence

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“I have never heard a sermon that offered wisdom as to how a gay man should live his life in a faithful Christian manner. All I have heard i...