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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
WorkingPreacher.org
WorkingPreacher.org typically has stellar articles on the upcoming lectionary text, and this one is no exception.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Justice with Michael Sandel - Home
Justice with Michael Sandel - Home is a weekly lecture series on justice by a popular Harvard professor of moral philosophy. Who needs TV anymore when this kind of thing is available on the web? Oh wait, we didn't have TV to begin with... :)
Friday, September 25, 2009
Review: Monsters of Folk : NPR
Review: Monsters of Folk : NPR
Like The Highwaymen or The Traveling Wilburies, this is the real supergroup deal. Picked it up at Target today for 7.99, well worth it.
Like The Highwaymen or The Traveling Wilburies, this is the real supergroup deal. Picked it up at Target today for 7.99, well worth it.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Awakening to Love and Joy
Awakening to Love and Joy
Had a chance to get to know John Mix better this week. He's the Dane County Jail chaplain, and a mixed media artist. This is his blog...
Had a chance to get to know John Mix better this week. He's the Dane County Jail chaplain, and a mixed media artist. This is his blog...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Journey with Jesus
I often find the Journey with Jesus to be a worthwhile stopping point for personal devotions and reflection on the lectionary texts for the week.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
David Bazan — Since 1976
David Bazan — Since 1976
Anyone else listen to David Bazan on the latest Paste sampler? Doing this intriguing thing with house shows...
Anyone else listen to David Bazan on the latest Paste sampler? Doing this intriguing thing with house shows...
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
LOGIA: A Journal of Lutheran Theology
LOGIA: A Journal of Lutheran Theology
Offering a free book download of The Lord's Supper in the Theology of Martin Chemnitz.
Offering a free book download of The Lord's Supper in the Theology of Martin Chemnitz.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Amazon.com: The Beatles Stereo Box Set: The Beatles: Music
Amazon.com: The Beatles Stereo Box Set: The Beatles: Music
What was that about "thou shalt not covet..."
What was that about "thou shalt not covet..."
Karen O to American Children: Go Out and Play! :: Music News :: Articles :: Paste
Karen O to American Children: Go Out and Play! :: Music News :: Articles :: Paste
Dave Eggers wrote the screen play. Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs wrote the soundtrack. Jonze is directing. What fun! Go watch the movie, then go outside!
Dave Eggers wrote the screen play. Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs wrote the soundtrack. Jonze is directing. What fun! Go watch the movie, then go outside!
Derek Webb
Derek Webb has a new album out... always worth listening to, Christian musician originally with Caedmon's Call, his solo career gets more and more interesting...
Terrible Yellow Eyes
Terrible Yellow Eyes is a tribute art page to Where the Wild Things Are, the book by Maurice Sendak...
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Lutheran Writers
The Lutheran Writers Home Page was recently features in The Lutheran. Very helpful resource!
Academic Faithfulness: Marks of Academic Revival
Academic Faithfulness: Marks of Academic Revival
Praying for all our university and college bound youth!
Praying for all our university and college bound youth!
How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? - NYTimes.com
How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? - NYTimes.com
This is really the best summary of the current state of economics that I have read in the past year!
This is really the best summary of the current state of economics that I have read in the past year!
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Google Books
Still kind of amazed how much of any individual book is available on Google Books. This is one we're reading for our next study group meeting:
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Leader Breakthru � Focused Living On-line
Leader Breakthru � Focused Living On-line
Hosted a retreat using these materials last year, and wonder if there's a group of 8-10 adults out there interested in attending a Focused Living Retreat again this year...
Hosted a retreat using these materials last year, and wonder if there's a group of 8-10 adults out there interested in attending a Focused Living Retreat again this year...
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Welcome to the Ernest Becker Foundation
Welcome to the Ernest Becker Foundation: "The EBF seeks to illuminate how the unconscious denial of mortality profoundly influences human behavior, giving rise to acts of hate and violence as well as noble, altruistic striving."
EBF has a web site redesign that is worth checking out. Great resources here!
EBF has a web site redesign that is worth checking out. Great resources here!
Friday, September 04, 2009
Journey with Jesus
Journey with Jesus: "The Scriptures this week offer a rather politically-incorrect perspective on the poor. The psalmist (Psalm 146), Proverbs, and the epistle of James all blame the rich for the plight of the poor. Rich people, they say, oppress, exploit, and plunder the poor 'because they are poor,' for their own advantage. Rich people manipulate the legal system to 'crush' the poor in courts of law."
Thursday, September 03, 2009
New Volumes of Luther's Works
Welcome to Concordia Publishing House... you thought there were only 55 volumes of Luther's Works in English. Concordia is embarking on a publishing adventure to offer 20 more volumes in English, and this is where you subscribe, one volume per year. Awesome!
Amazon.com: The Mystery of the Rosary: Marian Devotion and the Reinvention of Catholicism (9780814795910): Nathan Mitchell: Books
Amazon.com: The Mystery of the Rosary: Marian Devotion and the Reinvention of Catholicism (9780814795910): Nathan Mitchell: Books
Anyone else out there harbor a fascination with the Rosary? Sounds like a fascinating book.
Anyone else out there harbor a fascination with the Rosary? Sounds like a fascinating book.
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
Remember They Might Be Giants? Yes, that's right, they've been doing kids CDs for a while, our children love them, the 123s and the ABCs, and how, Here Comes Science. Great resources here to see some of the videos and hear the songs, and they're going on tour!
Remember They Might Be Giants? Yes, that's right, they've been doing kids CDs for a while, our children love them, the 123s and the ABCs, and how, Here Comes Science. Great resources here to see some of the videos and hear the songs, and they're going on tour!
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Post CWA
A friend and colleague wrote this to me recently, and gave me permission to publish it here. I thought it a worthwhile reflection:
I also wanted to share a thought with you about your comment that some of your friends thoguht they would have to withdraw from the ELCA over the recent synod decisions.
It seems to me they are profoundly mistaken in treating this issue as a statu confessionis issue that must divide the church. I will grant the issue of gay pastors is a matter of the interpretation of Scripture...but the church has disagreed on many other serious issues in the past without fracturing...the ministry of women being only the most obvious in recent years, and on that issue the scripture texts are far more transparent.
We have talked much about "bound consciences"...but it always seems to be on the side of the opponents of ministry by gay persons. I feel my conscience is as surely bound on the other side of the issue, and I am not one to take Scripture lightly. Like Luther, when some argue Scripture against Christ, I will always argue Christ against Scripture.
I think on the gay issue we must take a very long and hard look at our own prejudices, as I think these have been pernicious in motivating or at least shaping church actions for many years if not centuries.
Anyway, I hope your friends can serve as pastor in a larger church that does not always agree with their own vision of what Scripture say. As Cromwell said, "By the bowels of Christ, sir, consider that you may be wrong."
pax,
jruppenthal
I also wanted to share a thought with you about your comment that some of your friends thoguht they would have to withdraw from the ELCA over the recent synod decisions.
It seems to me they are profoundly mistaken in treating this issue as a statu confessionis issue that must divide the church. I will grant the issue of gay pastors is a matter of the interpretation of Scripture...but the church has disagreed on many other serious issues in the past without fracturing...the ministry of women being only the most obvious in recent years, and on that issue the scripture texts are far more transparent.
We have talked much about "bound consciences"...but it always seems to be on the side of the opponents of ministry by gay persons. I feel my conscience is as surely bound on the other side of the issue, and I am not one to take Scripture lightly. Like Luther, when some argue Scripture against Christ, I will always argue Christ against Scripture.
I think on the gay issue we must take a very long and hard look at our own prejudices, as I think these have been pernicious in motivating or at least shaping church actions for many years if not centuries.
Anyway, I hope your friends can serve as pastor in a larger church that does not always agree with their own vision of what Scripture say. As Cromwell said, "By the bowels of Christ, sir, consider that you may be wrong."
pax,
jruppenthal
Till We Have Faces
Just finished C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces. At end of novel, learned through the novel something deeper about this truth: that instead of living as the Imago Dei, trusting that we are created in the image of God, we choose to create gods that... are not gods in our own image, and then worship them, which means we worship images of ourself rather than trust that we are already created in the image of God.