not of this world

Sunday, July 9, 2006

by their fruits

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good opinion piece, liberal christianity is paying for its sins from today’s l.a. times

You want to have gay sex? Be a female bishop? Change God’s name to Sophia? Go ahead. The just-elected Episcopal presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, is a one-woman combination of all these things, having voted for Robinson, blessed same-sex couples in her Nevada diocese, prayed to a female Jesus at the Columbus convention and invited former Newark, N.J., bishop John Shelby Spong, famous for denying Christ’s divinity, to address her priests…

So this is the liberal Christianity that was supposed to be the Christianity of the future: disarray, schism, rapidly falling numbers of adherents, a collapse of Christology and national meetings that rival those of the Modern Language Assn. for their potential for cheap laughs. And they keep telling the Catholic Church that it had better get with the liberal program — ordain women, bless gay unions and so forth — or die. Sure.

Saturday, July 8, 2006

not with a club

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both as absurd
and as fitting
near to the exiled
longing
estranged homelands
beckoning barring
barren distance
impossible embrace
of a lifetime
that recklesst joy
forever setting

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Tuesday, July 4, 2006

day’s independence

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and how it now goes
in slipstreams and best of intentions
castings and wonderment
which weave a weary world about;
the arraignment though
bides time in its giving
gathers the still ready moment
from bilking storms of doubt

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