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Category Archives: No Way Way
Helping Haiti (& telling Pat Robertson to STFU)
How can we help the people of Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday’s devastating earthquake? By sending them assistance — not by blaming them, as Christianist lackwit Pat Robertson so predictably does. Continue reading
Posted in No Way Way, Polis
Tagged Atlantic.com, Barack Obama, Bible, Book of Job, Christianism, Christianity, earthquake, FiveThirtyEight.com, God as a bully, good government bad government, Haiti, in the news, King David, KSKA-FM, Matthew Yglesias, Media Matters for America, natural disasters, Pat Robertson, Psalms, Red Cross, slavery, Steve Aufrecht, Ta-Nehisi Coates, theodicy, Think Progress (blog), video, Voice from the Whirlwind, What Do I Know? (blog), Wikipedia
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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. Continue reading
Posted in No Way Way, Poems
Tagged Bible, Book of Job, natural disasters, poem, theodicy, Voice from the Whirlwind, writing
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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. Continue reading
Posted in Cold, Journal, No Way Way
Tagged Bible, Book of Job, Buddha, Cold notes, integrity, Side Street Espresso, theodicy, Voice from the Whirlwind, winter, writing
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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. Continue reading
Theodicy (poem)
Theodicy for Wendy If they could, these words would wrap around the questions like a cocooning blanket. They’d devise an argument, foolproof, dispelling all nuances of Why? They’d console you moment by moment. They’d answer all your grief. But if … Continue reading
Posted in No Way Way, Poems
Tagged alcohol, death, DWI/DUI, Jessie Withrow, poem, theodicy, writing
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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. Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You (poem)
Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You does anyone beat your heart for you — oh yes I know there are some who will quicken it or slow it at their leaving — but when you are alone at night … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading