Friday, March 5, 2010

Solidarity Again: Rabbi Lerner on Crafting a New Political Discourse and New Political Imagination

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  Rabbi Michael Lerner responding to Chris Hedges re: how progressives should assess President Obama: . . . [H]ere is a basic truth about...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Solidarity and Soul-Making: More Reflections on the Church Today

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  And so, how to find (and nourish) soul in bleak periods when faith communities appear increasingly unable to facilitate soul-making for m...

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...

Cognitive Dissonance and Catholic Intellectual Gymnastics re: Marriage Rights

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  Michael Bindner writing about the decision of the D.C. archdiocese to drop new spouses of employees at Catholic Charities from health ca...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Creeps: Contemporary American Political Discourse and Luminaries of Prose

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Why I bother grasping for strawy words to express my mundane ideas when there are political leaders vying for the chief executive office in...

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...

Poetry, Passion, and Cognitive Dissonance: The Death of Soul in American Catholicism Today

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So here’s where things stand for me—and I certainly understand readers who don’t particularly care to read confessional literature or rants...