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Tag Archives: Book of Job
I won’t abandon my integrity, even if you abandon me
I feel like talking about the Book of Job again, because (1) I’ll be giving a talk that starts out with my Job poem “Sermon” next month & (2) I’m reading a lot of old emails about a particularly Job-relevant period of my life. Continue reading
Good, evil, & great waves of god
Hokusai & the Japanese earthquake and tsunami — Job & the Voice from the Whirlwind — what’s all that got do do with good & evil & the justice of god? All that, & a tattoo. Continue reading
Posted in No Way Way
Tagged aha, Book of Job, Christianism, god is the universe & everything in it, Hokusai, Japan, tattoos, theodicy
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Actually, I kinda like clouds…
Clouds are actually really beautiful, when I’m not feeling grey. A little about the aha! experience of 1984, when I permanently came out of my former self-hatred. Continue reading
Posted in depression
Tagged aha, Book of Job, Caprica (TV), clouds, giving up self-hate, grey, poem excerpt, Sylvia, Voice from the Whirlwind
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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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Sermon (a poem)
“I take as my text the Book of Job — / for are we not like him, innocent, / suffering, crying out for justice? / are we not like him, each of us / surrounded by these righteous, / these pious friends who so love us, / who console us with false accusations, who comfort us with lies?” Continue reading