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Category Archives: No Way Way
Job 42.13
A poem based upon a verse in the Book of Job, with an account by a Kansas farmer who saw the inside of a tornado in 1928.
Also posted in Poems Tagged Bible, Book of Job, natural disasters, poem, theodicy, Voice from the Whirlwind 1 Comment
Buddha in the coffee shop
My Side Street Saturday included an encounter with a handcarved Vietnamese Buddha of white-grey marble, which its owner hopes to sell as a fundraiser for Veterans for Peace. A little about Job, integrity, cold, & low atmospheric pressure, too.
Also posted in Cold, Journal Tagged Bible, Book of Job, Buddha, Cold notes, integrity, Side Street Espresso, theodicy, Voice from the Whirlwind, winter, writing 2 Comments
James Dobson’s God is a child abuser, & so is Jerry Prevo’s
Max Blumenthal's new book Republican Gomorrah talks among other things about corporal punishment in Christianist practices of child discipline -- practices taught by Focus on the Family leader James Dobson and, at least in 1985, Anchorage Baptist Temple pastor Jerry Prevo.
Theodicy (poem)
Nine years ago, in July 2000, my friend Wendy’s daughter Jessie was killed by a drunk driver. I wrote this poem for Wendy. But mourning can be a hard & private thing, & I didn’t want to intrude — it took me a year to feel able to give it to her.
We talked today about [...]
No Questions, Questions (poem)
You wouldn't think Jerry Prevo would inspire poetry, wouldja? But this is the 2nd I've written b/c of him. Yikes.
Christianist, defined
I first used this term in the post “The new Carrie Prejean?” I’m using often enough that it seems helpful to break the definition I used there out into a separate post.
Christianist is a term I first heard from Atlantic Monthly blogger Andrew Sullivan — a useful term that to me conveys not Christiantity as [...]
God of Mosquitoes (poem)
A summertime theology poem featuring “Alaska’s state bird.”
I intended to post this a couple days ago, after a conversation with my friend Barbara who told me she was attracted to Buddhism but “I kill mosquitoes.” I was reminded again this morning as I walked to work from the bus stop & had my own non-ahimsa [...]
Religion v. belief
Friday before last, on my way down for coffee, I spotted a book on the new books shelf of the UAA/APU Consortium Library whose title caught my interest: The Religious Case Against Belief. Its author, James P. Carse, is a professor emeritus of religion at New York University, where he spent 30 years directing its [...]
Building Consensus