Comparative Religion – Confucianism
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Comparative Religion – Confucianism
Let’s face it, this is a spectacular hook for a story that blends sports with spirituality. The headline gives you an idea where the Washington Post team is going: “For Jaeger, the Point Is Love — Tennis Prodigy-Turned-Nun Wishes to Show Compassion She Once Craved.” As a sports story, this feature really works, with insider details about controversial events in the life of a controversial young star who flamed out in the world of professional tennis. That’s the point
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Unforced error in Jaeger story
Wreaths win Obama praise from Sons of Confederate Veterans Gestures honor black Union soldiers as well as Confederate war dead By WAYNE WASHINGTON wwashington@thestate.com President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black chief executive, will be getting a thank you note from the Sons of Confederate Veterans for continuing a tradition of honoring the Confederate dead on Memorial Day. A group of 48 historians, including one from Coastal Carolina University, had asked Obama not to send a wreath to an Arlington National Cemetery monument honoring Confederate dead — a practice started in 1914 by Woodrow Wilson, who was born in Virginia and lived in Columbia as a young man. Obama sent the wreath to the Confederate monument, but he also sent one to a Washington, D.C., cemetery that honors black Union soldiers.
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Obama: Wreath to Arlington Confederate monument
… here are thousands of sects within Hinduism, and violence between them is unknown…. ”Far from being sprinkled with the magic powder of tolerance, all those religions that rubbed shoulders with Hinduism picked up its divisive caste system….“Nitin Mehta uses a piece of sophistry to suggest the superiority of Hinduism particularly vis-à-…“There is a profoundly disquieting myth about Hinduism which has been put about by its adherents so often and so successfully that it is in danger of crystallising i…
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In the Beginning God created the Big Bang…
We'd better have some political reform quickly, or else – at this rate – we'll have no women MPs left by the next election. The self-slaughter of Julie Kirkbride and Margaret Moran, in both instances suicides assisted by other women – a Louise Marnell in Bromsgrove, an Esther Rantzen in Luton – reminds me that resentment is more easily focused on female politicians, with their whining insistence on seeing their children or partners occasionally. You may have noticed that the only Cabinet members said to be in trouble over their expenses are Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears.
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I'll show you mine if you show me yours
The son of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson lacked her charisma but led the church she founded through a period of explosive growth. Rolf K. McPherson, a major figure in the Pentecostal movement who for 44 years guided the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel founded by his mother, charismatic evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, died of natural causes May 21 at his Los Feliz home, according to a church spokesman.
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Rolf K. McPherson dies at 96; longtime Pentecostal church leader
The good people at Think Progress have assembled a nice compilation of Congressman John Culberson’s staggeringly incoherent statement on gay marriage: If your head doesn’t hurt enough after listening to that, zero in on this part of the statement, which is, let’s recall, part of a larger statement in which the Congressman demands that governments legislate significant details of human pair bonds: Their private life is their private business. I’m fundamentally a libertarian at heart.
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Rep. Culberson: A Titan Among the Stupid
Katie Petroski of the Austin American-Statesman has written an elegant profile of Lloyd Dalton, a longtime telephone lineman by day and guitarist by night, who rediscovered his faith after a deadly shooting in a bar. The details of Dalton’s night in the bar are drama enough for his story to work: A man walked into O’Neill’s Sports Tavern in Marble Falls, as Dalton and his band played “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.” A bartender was killed as he tried to intervene.
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A testimony from the Third Coast
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's pick for the Supreme Court, has some troubling views on that subject. From the New York Times : In 2001, Sonia Sotomayor , an appeals court judge, gave a speech declaring that the ethnicity and sex of a judge “may and will make a difference in our judging.” In her speech , Judge Sotomayor questioned the famous notion — often invoked by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her retired Supreme Court colleague, Sandra Day O’Connor — that a wise old man and a wise old woman would reach the same conclusion when deciding cases.
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Isn’t justice blind?
Rummaging in the Blue Book #2, on the resolution of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music re “Holy Women, Holy Men.” I read this amazing undertaking of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (SCLM), but I must confess it was a scan.My primary questions of this work had to do with the spirit of the thing – whether or not it was particularly useful or helpful to have expansions of the
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Blue Book Rummaging #2: "Holy Women, Holy Men" Holy Smoke!