March 2011
215 posts
“[Glenn] Beck and Wall Street are terrified that regular Americans will begin to...”
– Stephen Lerner (via azspot)
“Where is God? is the title question. Let us begin by saying where God is not: in...”
– Jon Sobrino (via Inward/Outward & Pacific Grace)
“Bank of America hasn’t paid a nickel in federal income taxes for the past two...”
– 2/3rds of US Corporations Pay Zero Federal Taxes
“In the end, only lament can give birth to hope.”
– Brian Walsh, What Michael Ignatieff Should Have Said (A very specific context, but never-the-less a generally applicable truth.)
“People try nonviolence for a week, and when it ‘doesn’t work’ they go back to...”
– Theodore Roszak (via azspot)
“The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about...”
– Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs
“The last people who should be in charge of our food supply or our social and...”
– Chris Hedges, The Collapse of Globalization
“We must embrace, and embrace rapidly, a radical new ethic of simplicity and...”
– Chris Hedges, The Collapse of Globalization
“[I]t’s definitely about reaching places that I have never reached. It’s about...”
– Street artist (and TED Prize winner) JR describing his Inside Out Project
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A beautifully filmed teaser for an NPR story on why time seems to fly by as you get older. (via Brain Pickings)
“The arithmetic is straightforward and simple: If I do not believe what the Bible...”
– Fred Clark - slacktivist
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“I know from personal experience that three things are sure to cause a church...”
– Kevin Beck
“So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in...”
– Bob Herbert, Losing Our Way (His last column for the New York Times)
“The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is...”
– Thomas Merton (via azspot)
“We are all between the paws of the true Aslan.”
– C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
“It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we are in...”
– Thomas Berry, quoted at Evolutionary Christianity
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“Let the good news grab you, disrupt you, unsettle you and shake you up. Lose...”
– Rob Bell, The Good News Is Better Than That: Reflections On Hell, Salvation and the Power of Love
“Of course I want to save the world, she said, but I was hoping to do it from the...”
– Storypeople.com
“…slashing spending in the face of high unemployment is a mistake....”
– Paul Krugman
“Worried About the Budget? End the War in Afghanistan
Looking for another...”
– Tell Barack & Joe to keep their promise (via Sojourners)
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in...”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower (via x0)
“The church is obliged by its evangelical mission to demand structural changes...”
– Archbishop Oscar Romero, November 1979. Today is the 31st anniversary of his martyrdom. (Source: U.S. Catholic via Sojourners)
“A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory,...”
– Seth Godin
Miranda is Obama's latest victim →
Speaking of abandoning one’s campaign pledges, PolitiFact yesterday compared (a) Obama’s 2007 statement that Presidents have no power to start wars without Congressional approval except to stop an attack or imminent on America with (b) his current conduct in Libya and positions to justify it, and found what it calls a “FULL FLIP”. But the good thing about being Barack Obama is that you’re...
“Jesus, it seems to me, did not come to earth to create a country club, or a...”
– Richard Rohr, Christ, Cosmology and Consciousness
“I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I...”
– Barack Obama (via azspot)
Brian Mclaren responds to John Piper about Japan →
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“This, to me, is part of the scandal of the Incarnation and the scandal of the cross: that God, when God shows up in Christ, doesn’t take control. God in Christ doesn’t institute “martial law.” Nor does God in Christ unilaterally eliminate all that we call suffering and evil. Nor does God in Christ cause any additional suffering and evil.”
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“This mystery of Christ is much bigger than Christianity. If we don’t make...”
– Richard Rohr, Christ, Cosmology and Consciousness
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you...”
– Stephen King (via subtlelights)
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty...”
– Elizabeth Taylor (via straightlikeindianhair) #RIP (via liberalsarecool)
“God does not need your good works; your neighbor does.”
– Martin Luther, via @timchaddick
“Fearing that a powerful U.S. spy agency is listening in, a group of activists...”
– U.S. court validates spying fears of journalists, activists
“From the outside, you’d think the U.S. Chamber of Commerce must know what...”
– Bill McKibben
“What would it feel like to believe that anyone really deserved eternal conscious...”
– Andrew Brown
“…the underlying problem is that anyone with actual expertise and any kind of...”
– Paul Krugman, via AZspot
“Gaddafi is crazy and evil; obviously, he wasn’t going to listen to our advice...”
– Eugene Robinson (via azspot)
“He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow
When I attempt the ineffable...”
– C.S. Lewis, Footnote to All Prayers
“Where people choose violence, retaliation and self-interest, they are merely...”
– Greg Boyd
“Just when you thought the country was broke we found enough change under the...”
– Phoenix Preacher (via azspot) 