Saturday, September 12, 2020

Creation Theology, The Bad And The Good Of It Depends On What It Is Made To Serve

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We may discern two major theological contributions from the period, both of which are important for biblical faith and for the Christian tr...

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Jim Nolan - Moby Dick

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  Moby Dick  The might-have-been of a human life is much more real to us than its routine dailiness. In a Brooklyn brownstone room, an eld...

Elizabeth Warren: "Donald Trump Knew"

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Friday, September 11, 2020

He had replaced covenanting with consuming and all promises had been reduced to tradeable commodities

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While the late critical dating of Ecclesiastes is not to be doubted, one may hypothesize that the tradition was intuitively correct in assig...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

Susan Collins Is An Opioid Profiteer

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    I was almost not going to post this but then I recalled how Maine has one of the worst opioid problems in the country , neighboring New ...

We Are In That Fire Next Time

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T he day that was yesterday brought so many revelations of the moral atrocity that is Donald Trump that it's hard to get a hold of it. ...
Wednesday, September 9, 2020

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 Just had a call from my brother that his son, my nephew has been exposed to Covid at work, his entire workplace was shut down.  He told my ...

Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

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 It need hardly be added that the Solomonic regime was able to silence criticism.  There are two ways to silence criticism.  One is the way ...
Tuesday, September 8, 2020

a remarkable continuity with the very Egyptian reality that Moses had sought to counter

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 Solomon was able to counter completely the counter-culture of Moses. (a) He countered the economics of equality with the economics of afflu...
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Monday, September 7, 2020

Johnny Mercer Henry Mancini - Moon River

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After I posted that radio play that used the name of the song I realized I was going to have it going through my head over and over again ...

This Isn't The God You Pray To For Candy

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I believe that these factors necessarily go together and that no one of them would occur or endure without the other two [These three item...
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Sunday, September 6, 2020

Nothing But Bad News Here

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The past two days I've been preoccupied with worrying about one of my young relatives who is a teacher back in the classroom and who has...
Saturday, September 5, 2020

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Michele Forbes - My Huckleberry Friend

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  My Huckleberry Friend    My Huckleberry Friend written by Michele Forbes Continuing our summer season of new writing, Drama on One prese...
Thursday, September 3, 2020

Dusan Bogdanovic, A Little Prayer,

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 A Little Prayer   Dusan Bogdanovic, composer and guitarist Seeing this come up in my "favorites" sidebar, I found I needed it aft...

RMJ has written a fine piece that you will be glad you read

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 RMJ has written a fine piece that you will be glad you read:     The View From 30,000 Feet

static religion in which the God and his temple have become part of the royal landscape, in which the sovereignty of God is fully subordinated to the purpose of the king

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(3) The economics of affluence and the politics of oppression are the most characteristic marks of the Solomonic achievement. But these by ...