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Jan. 10th, 2008 05:11 pmBe the GOD you wish to see in others.
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Aug. 13th, 2006 06:01 pmAll emphases mine.
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After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till [sic] daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered. Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome." ( Read more... )
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After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till [sic] daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered. Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome." ( Read more... )
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postcards from an edge
Aug. 13th, 2006 02:34 pmI was going through some boxes and rediscovered an index card box I'd begun in 2003. During this time, I was still unemployed, writing scads of poems and getting deeply involved in the theory of poetics, and I was thumbing through the religious artefacts that my great-aunt Helen had had. (She had an aggressive bout of Alzheimer's come on, so we had the strange inversion of going through her effects before she had even passed.)
She'd left her notebooks from the church I'd been brought up in. ( tangential digression )
I don't recall the process by which I organized these quotes, but their order does seem to have a cumulative effect. I was in a certain mindset, a lot of free time, a lot of cognitive collusions studying poetry, theology and philosophy.
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spiritoflife (*blows the dust off the community*).
She'd left her notebooks from the church I'd been brought up in. ( tangential digression )
I don't recall the process by which I organized these quotes, but their order does seem to have a cumulative effect. I was in a certain mindset, a lot of free time, a lot of cognitive collusions studying poetry, theology and philosophy.
I'll put them in a separate post, which also will be posted to
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I've figured it out.
Jul. 12th, 2006 11:42 amToday's Christians strive to be nice to people.
But Christ wanted his followers to be kind.
There is a world of difference.
(I know I'm generalizing. Let me say this is my perception of American Protestantism in the last five years or so.)
But Christ wanted his followers to be kind.
There is a world of difference.
(I know I'm generalizing. Let me say this is my perception of American Protestantism in the last five years or so.)
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May. 7th, 2006 09:26 pm"And about differing between Magic and Sorcery Paracelsus wrote: 'There are those who say that magic is sorcery: But magic is wisdom, and there is no wisdom in sorcery.'"
--The Magi
--The Magi
links gleaned from challenging_god
Nov. 21st, 2005 06:46 pmDid Jesus Exist?
Did a historical Jesus exist?
(I'd like to remind my readers that I am a heretic: I believe that Jesus in fact did not exist as a figure in history. However, the Jesus myth, once examined and explicated, offers a way to understanding God, in the way that mere words can. Grand myths, like poetry, get across truths that cannot be expressed any other way.)
Did a historical Jesus exist?
(I'd like to remind my readers that I am a heretic: I believe that Jesus in fact did not exist as a figure in history. However, the Jesus myth, once examined and explicated, offers a way to understanding God, in the way that mere words can. Grand myths, like poetry, get across truths that cannot be expressed any other way.)
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Nov. 18th, 2005 10:23 pmThis church was the number one story on Countdown today. They apparently did a service to the community and bought gas for some of the people in town. If you get a chance to see the rerun, do so. Today's Countdown was good.
