Arrgg… our car broke down in freezing cold Chicago… and it was REALLY expensive to fix. We ended up having to spend all of the money meant to pay back my student loans this month… and then some. So friends I am asking for your help. As Loren ’s wife/manager, I am in charge of promoting his visual art career. Loren created a wonderful series of Jewish themed cartoons called Metrodox . We are selling signed digital prints of his Metrodox illustrations for $100 on LorenWellsArt.com . And of course if your in the market for some Jewish panties, be sure to visit ShomerNegiahPanties.com .
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The Car Broke Down
The first blow that started the warlike crack inside the Messianic Jerusalem Church occurred at the Council of Jerusalem held on 50 A. … The Christians that separated from Judaism misinterpreted this Jerusalem Council verdict as “doing away” with the Mosaic Law….This short-lived revolt was the most significant event in the split between Judaism and Messianic Gentile Christianity….The Pharisees that believed in the Messiah, which developed into Rabbinic Judaism, and the Messianic Gentile Christians….
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A LITTLE LEAVEN, LEAVENS THE WHOLE LUMP: The EPHESUS CHURCH of the Kabbalistic Book of Revelation – 2
Paul Harvey Just following up on some of previously posted-about topics. First, ” Dissertations on His Dudeness, ” NY Times , December 30, has more on religion/philosophy, cult movies, and The Big Lebowski , which we had posted about here previously. Secondly, over at Immanent Frame is more on “Religion and the Historical Profession,” including several scholars weighing in on an uptick of interest in religion in the historical profession, as discussed in a recent AHA study and reported on by Inside Higher Ed; we blogged about it previously here (with links to all of the above)
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Dissertations on Dudeness, the Historical Profession, and Francis Asbury
I’ve only been a card-carrying Get Religion-er since August, and in that brief time I’ve been repeatedly drawn to articles that cover the intersection of faith and culture. And what a year it was for examining Dan Brown and the Masons, Michael Moore and Catholicism, the Coen brothers and Judaism, punk rock musicians and Islam, Ricky Gervais and atheism, Glenn Beck and Mormonism, or the online pranksters of the Assclown Offensive and Scientology. There were also fascinating books (such as cartoonist Robert Crumb’s Bible project, Andre Agassi’s memoir “Open,” and Carl Jung’s huge (and hugely anticipated) “Red Book.” The Vatican gave a fitting postlude to the year in culture with its Dec
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God and culture: 2009 remix
Tzeniut is a word that is not heard in Messianic communities. … Posted in Bible, Faith, Israel, Judaism, Love, Middle East, News, Prayer, Religion, Religous Outreach, Uncategorized, World Tagged:…Bible, Christianity, Encouragement, Faith, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, Love, Messianic Judaism, Middle East, News, Outreach programs, Prayer, Religion, World…
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Family Purity – Modesty – Tzeniut – צניעות
So Bob Dylan went and made himself a Christmas album , instead of a holiday album. It ends with him singing “amen” at the end of a non-ironic “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” Many will note that the album does not contain a performance, ironic or otherwise, of “ Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel .” Needless to say, this has raised some eyebrows.
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Dylan the mysterious ‘true believer’
I met Ben Schachter at the 2009 Conney Conference on Jewish Art: Performing Histories, Inscribing Jewishness , where coincidentally, we both presented Eruv themed works. In addition to making humorous Jewish themed conceptual art, Ben is a curator and is the man behind Tzit Tzit: Fiber Art and Jewish Identity
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Tzit Tzit: Fiber Art and Jewish Identity
This is the cover for a booklet about the Garden of Eden created from the Adam to Abraham Scrapbook Kit (and a few new papers I made I’ll be adding to the kit). Here is the tentative layout for our Scrapbook Folder. I am using the Adam to Abraham Ebook Adam to Abraham Digital Scrapbook Kit Adam to Abraham Links I’ll be posting each booklet if you’d like to follow our progress
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Lapbook and Scrapbook Folder Differences
… t equally very much like they should hold ). people would state Christianism was about love, so if the impotent Luther ramp about Jews, it got to be right someways, b…Christianism, a faith enforced by the fascist, particularly bloody and murderous emperor Constantine, is, course, likelily the most deadly faith that ever was….Hebraism and Christianism hold killed megs….Indeed Islam was obtained by a sequence of mutants from Judaism and Christianism….
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Transmissibility and deadliness.
The wonderful Suzan Shutan has agreed to help me with my resume/cv/statements in exchange for web design and video work. I couldn’t think of a better collaboration. Here is one of the many projects (and its many iterations) that I am attempting to catalog for said documents… Tallit Rebozo , from the series Hiddur Mitzvah , Quilted, Embroidered, Woven, and Recycled Fabric, 2006 Comodification Series: Modeling Tallit Rebozo , Performance 2006 Comodification Series: Maya Carrying Maya , Photo Collage, 2006 Gringa Loves Guatemala , YouTube Video, 2007 Maya Carrying Maya , YouTube background, 2009 Maya Carrying Maya , Twitter background, 2009 Former Myspace Profile Picture , found internet photo (repeated here 3 times), 2006
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If I haven’t mentioned it before, I am quite the fan of awful horrible animated gifs. As I continue to work with seeNoga and Rio Yañez on the Jewish characters from Acciones Plásticas プリクラ : The Jewess Blogging Queen , The Avodah Girl and The 612er ; I thought I would share this terrible image created early on in our collaboration.
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rio prayed for la virgen de guadalupe and instead got…
I’m pretty sure that my favorite story of this Hanukkah season was this one from Good Morning America : For centuries, the Dreidel game has been a Hanukkah tradition. The simple gambling game remains a fixture at Hanukkah parties, but today it’s often more decoration than entertainment – a party favor and not a party favorite.
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Catching a gimel on the river
Below is a compelling and liberating audio series by Dr. Kruger on the Father’s heart, our adoption in Christ and our true identity and calling as the sons and daughters the Father has always wanted. Here Baxter revisits Jesus’ parable of the Father and his two sons and then takes us through a study of Ephesians 1:3-5 to help us experience the Father’s eternal love for us
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You Are the Child The Father Always Wanted!
How does one “settle the issue of our worth” when we are taught we are not worthy? I’m speaking of Christ-centered confidence, not self-made worth. Self-worth and self-dependence can blind us to the holiness and glory of God. God sees us as worthy! He is like the shepherd that left the 99 sheep to look for the one lost lamb.
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Feeling Worthy When We Aren’t
I’ve had a very active month. Here’s what I put online: New on Katinka Hesselink Net Unique Spiritual Gifts and Religious presents Bob Marley spiritual quotes posters Buddha posters and art prints Trivia quizzes: facts and questions about religion (links) New on All Considering Spiritual evolution, cycles, 2012 and wisdom (7 comments) When yoga increases stress: about the teacher (5 comments) 10 simple mindfulness exercises (12 comments) (massively popular on stumbleupon) New on squidoo Best Buddhism Presents and Gifts Buddhism T-shirts for Xmas Quiz: Religion facts and trivia (these now all have 10 questions) Quiz: Jiddu Krishnamurti Trivia Test Quiz: Test your knowledge about Blavatsky Quiz: Free Christianity trivia test Quiz: Buddhism trivia and facts Quiz: Yoga trivia and facts Quiz: Hinduism facts and trivia The Coolest Spiritual Quizzes Ever Quiz: Judaism facts and trivia Islam trivia and facts quiz What are fractals?
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Mindfulness exercises, religion trivia, buddhism gifts, etc.
Randall Stephens Cambridge University Press has a marvelous series called the Cambridge Companions to Religion . Of particular interest to readers of this blog will be: Dana Evan Kaplan, ed., The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism (2005); Stephen J
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New Book on John Wesley and Methodism
Acciones Plásticas プリクラ Acciones Plásticas プリクラ is a collaboration between artists Maya Escobar and Rio Yañez . The Latina Hipster a bad-ass Morrissey-lovin’, tuff-girl sexy chica The Latina Role Model a diploma totin’ intellectual, sexy, social media goddess The Homegirl a hybridized version of Escobar’s Midwestern Chach and Yañez’s West Coast Chola. In Acciones Plásticas Escobar created a multi-faceted “doll” by assuming the role of designer and distributor, and even posing as the actual doll itself. Each doll was a satirical characterization of some of the many roles that have been projected upon her, and into which she has, at points, inevitably fallen.
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acciones plásticas goes プリクラ chicano style
photo by Julian Voloj Maya and Gonzalo Escobar create Talking about Orchard Street , a multi-sensory interactive installation that explores the generational transmission of Jewish life through dialog. The father-daughter duo traveled from Chicago to New Haven to conduct interviews with former members and friends of Orchard Street Shul and to record locals’ stories of growing up in New Haven during the 1920s and 30s.
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Talking About Orchard Street
But let me whet your appetite: the subject of the debate was “Is Jewish Renewal the Next Step in Spirituality, or Bommer Narcissism?&…Now, I’m a big fan of instilling spirituality in Jewish practice (after all, I love love love really long Carlebach services),…The result is a Judaism infused with spirituality and liturgical creativity, blended with elements of Sufism and Buddhism, and stridently supportive of feminism, L…
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Jewish Renewal: not for me, but still awesome? The jury’s out…
NOW BACK IN PRINT! The vast majority of the modern day studies, teachings, and theologies developed concerning the Apostle Paul all disseminate a similar perspective: That Paul underwent a typical conversion from one religion to another, from the Law-based religion of Judaism to the Grace-based religion of Christianity. That Paul preached against the Torah and Judaism and that he sought to rescue people, both Jew and Gentile, from the clutches of this works-based system
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The Letter Writer: Paul’s Background and Torah Perspective
No more than my marriage union with my husband has eliminated my distinct identity as a woman, my coming alongside the Messianic Jewish believers has not erased my i dentity as a Christian. … The Sages of Judaism explain that in the first four books of the Torah, Moses is transcribing everything as he received it from God….No offense, but I have not be drawn to Messianic Judaism in that way….
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Today is my birthday. If I was Jewish, my Bat Mitzvah portions would have occurred on the Sabbath before the 9th of Av
Did you know a caterpillar has the DNA of the butterfly before it is physically transformation is seen? When one trust Christ as Savior we have the DNA of God through the indwelling of His Holy Spirit. We have the DNA of a child of God before the physical fruit is seen in our walk! In this video John Lynch explains this analogy for the new nature inside every Christian.
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Be Transformed from Religion to Relationship
Book Review: From Eternity to Here: Rediscovering the Ageless Purpose of God by Frank Viola.
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Hidden Romance in the Bible
In all my years on the Godbeat, I have never covered a vague “religious festival.” All of the one’s that I have covered — especially when linked to ancient traditions in Christianity, Judaism, Islam and other major faiths — have very precise titles, rituals and purposes. So, if you are willing to ask a question or two, you usually hit a specific passage in scripture, a reference to the life of a holy person, a tie between the secular and religious calendars, or some other hook to the faith in question
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Product: Human Beings Year of manufacture: All The Maker of all human beings (GOD) is recalling all units manufactured, regardless of make or year, due to a serious defect in the primary and central component of the Heart. This is due to a malfunction in the original prototype units code named Adam and Eve, resulting in the reproduction of the same defect in all subsequent units. This defect has been technically termed “Sub-sequential Internal Non-Morality” (SIN)
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Recall Notice from God
Having spent the past two years almost exclusively reporting on the American Jewish community, it’s easy to forget how foreign some parts of traditional Jewish life are to most Americans. That’s why I could really appreciate this story from the Associated Press that does an excellent job of educating readers while informing them about a development in Big Sky country: In one of the least-Jewish states in the country, a traditional Jewish group working to revive religious observance has built a mikvah, a ritual bath for spiritual purification. The bath opened several months ago in an extension built onto the Bozeman home of Rabbi Chaim Bruk and his wife, Chavie, who came here with the Hasidic movement Chabad Lubavitch.
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Washing away the unclean
Slate senior editor Emily Bazelon has a really interesting article in this coming Sunday’s New York Times magazine. The article, which has been online for days now, is just an interview — but the subject is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg . The last time we wrote about Bazelon was to note that the liberal justice Ginsburg had approvingly cited Bazelon’s work in a dissenting opinion of the court’s ruling supporting a ban on partial birth abortion.
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Eugenics and the Supreme Court