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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Confederate Christian Nationalism...

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When I considered that some of the home schooling that occurs in this country bears a peculiar Christian stamp to it that is reminiscent o...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Home schooling the equivalent of Islamic madrassas?

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Rousas John Rushdoony, credited as the father of Christian Reconstructionism (a term that should scare the be-Jesus out of you) wrote that ...

The poor you will always have with you...

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"Now when Jesus was in Bethany, at the home of Simon the leper, a wom an came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume,...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Americanization of Sufism

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There are two aspects to this post, the first (as usual) a bit on the cynical side, the other a different perspective. I've writt...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Bull Riding for Jesus?

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And we wonder why people think Christians are just a bit nuts, not because they believe in Jesus but because, well, we appear a bit nuts. ...
Friday, July 29, 2011

The sameness of the world and the trappings therein...

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Two separate photos, two separate days, two different ends of town. Sometimes there are moments where the world slows down and true ...
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Faith without having all the answers...

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I've been heavy into Abraham Heschels' The Prophets lately. I always seem to come back to the Hebrew Prophets. I tend to shun Da...

Can you be a Christian and still be human?

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I struggle with this one. The Christian message continues to burrough deeper into my soul. When balanced but not overridden by the intelle...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

A sad chicken sandwich...

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Lately we've been moving more and more toward a "raw" food based diet. This isn't the weird, militant kind of raw food di...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Social Justice in the Workplace...

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I've been on a roll at work lately, "stirring up trouble" as I put it. It's not meant to be trouble but sometimes when th...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

The power of the Word...

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Story time, so bear with... If I haven't mentioned it before I work in a Quality position at a manufacturing plant. We stamp, weld an...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

European scholars and "mystical" Islam...

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I've really been reading deeply into Henry Corbin's works now for a number of years.  I find his views of mystical Islam as found i...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

For the spiritually adventurous...

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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Henry Corbin, Ibn 'Arabi and modern Christianity...

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"I was a Treasure unknown then I desired to be known so I created a creation which to which I made Myself known, then they knew Me....
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Moby's "Destroyed" a religious experience...

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A few posts ago I talked of my struggles with "Christian" music and how I often feel obligated to somehow like it because it’s ta...

So Jim Tressel has fallen...

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Another professed Christian sports hero berated by a mocking public.  Is he guilty?  Probably.  He is, after all, still a human being.  He j...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

6 a.m. on the midnight shift...

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Sittin' in a megachurch...

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I find myself in a really strange position.  The church I have attended for the past six years or so is becoming (or might even be consider...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Shi'ite, Isma'ili and Christian gnosis...

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I must say that the spritual path that has been a constant curiosity to me over the past few years falls under the title of this post.  Mos...
Sunday, May 8, 2011

The idolatry of being relevant...

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Found a great website that pokes fun at Christian culture, an oxymoron if ever there was one.  There are some others out there but this on...
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aorto
The Heart of It All, United States
Since music expresses life, I appreciate and enjoy (almost) all forms of musical expression.
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