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POPSWhy Jimmy Carter left the Southern Baptist Convention Subservience of women to men is a false argument, dependent upon selection of certain verses of the Bible and the exclusion of many others. Suppressing female leadership is a cultural decision of male leaders, not an accurate reading of Scripture.
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POPSNick Cave on Mark: Jesus' anger, loneliness, and desperation Nick Cave describes his fascination with and attraction to Mark in very sophisticated terms, identifying as key elements of Marcan theology a kind of pressured narrative urgency, a constant undercurrent of conflict, the isolation and anger that seem to characterize Jesus' own inner life, hopeless incomprehension on the part of his own family and followers, a looming, desperate awareness of the cross, and the restless activity of Jesus' "jewel-like imagination." Seen at Christopher Cocca's blog (bit.ly/11zhE6).
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POPSGod Says From JoHannaM's blog. by Tod Rungren I clipped bits here n there. Go read the whole thing. Lovely.
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POPSYa gotta believe? Continuation: Perhaps the most common proof of Lipton’s hypothesis is what we call the placebo effect. “The critical factor,” says Irving Kirsch, a psychologist at the University of Connecticut, “is our beliefs about what's going to happen to us. You don't have to rely on drugs to see profound transformation.” Current research seems to support the claim that a person's beliefs, sensory experience and thoughts can affect neurochemistry and, thus, impact outcomes. While not exactly an accepted scientific term, the “power of suggestion” is a confirmed psychological mechanism. Our subconscious can accept or reject input. From repressed childhood memories to self-help mantras, the input varies widely but what the subconscious accepts is what it responds to and thus acts on.
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POPSHal Lindsey's THERE'S A NEW WORLD COMING This is what everyone ought to know about the religious vapor in the heads of some bigoted politicians: Hal Lindsey's exciting explanation of the Book of Revelation God defend us against his zealots.
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POPSSchöne Bescherung im Biologieunterricht Intelligent Design mit Wissenschaft nichts zu tun, wie es uns die Neokreationisten und nun auch Ministerin Wolff und ihre publizistischen Mitstreiter weismachen wollen. Sie redet von »erstaunlichen Übereinstimmungen« zwischen Darwin und Bibel, von »Erklärungsmustern«, die der Schöpfungsgeschichte »nicht widersprechen«. Gott »formte aus dem Ackerboden alle Tiere des Feldes«? Das ist eine wunderbare Metapher, wie auch die Bibel wunderbare Literatur ist. Wir mögen das glauben, aber im Biologieunterricht hat dieses »Erklärungsmuster« nichts zu suchen. In diesem Ansinnen vereinen sich prämoderne, romantische Attacken gegen die »kalte Vernunft« und postmoderne Beliebigkeit – anything goes. Wenn Gott gewollt hätte, dass wir Glauben und Wissen miteinander vermischen, hätte er uns nicht vom Baum der Erkenntnis naschen lassen. So steht’s jedenfalls in der Bibel. (A.a.O.)
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POPSDie Religion der Unendlichkeit - Friedrich Schleiermacher (wdr5 podcast 2007-11-02) "Religion is the outcome neither of the fear of death, nor of the fear of God. It answers a deep need in man. It is neither a metaphysic, nor a morality, but above all and essentially an intuition and a feeling. Dogmas are not, properly speaking, part of religion: rather it is that they are derived from it. Religion is the miracle of direct relationship with the infinite; and dogmas are the reflection of this miracle. Similarly belief in God, and in personal immortality, are not necessarily a part of religion; one can conceive of a religion without God, and it would be pure contemplation of the universe; the desire for personal immortality seems rather to show a lack of religion, since religion assumes a desire to lose oneself in the infinite, rather than to preserve one's own finite self." Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834), Über die Religion (Addresses on Religion) (1799)
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POPSMechthild of Magdeburg - German Mystic, Poet, Beguine The Flowing Light of the Godhead. (Transl. by Frank Tobin) Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, "The Flowing Light of the Godhead", the first such work in the German vernacular. Yet her writings dropped into obscurity after her death, many assume because of her gender. In "Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book", Sara S. Poor seeks to explain this fate by considering Mechthild's own view of female authorship, the significance of her choice to write in the vernacular, and the continued, if submerged, presence of her writings in a variety of contexts from the thirteenth through the nineteenth century. "Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book" offers new insights into medieval vernacular mysticism, late medieval women's roles in the production of culture, and the construction of modern literary traditions. amazon.de
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POPSAus den Erzählungen der Chassidim (Martin Buber) CHASSIDISMUS (Hasidism) Diese religiöse Bewegung innerhalb des Judentums ist gegen 1750 in der Ukraine und in Polen entstanden. Sie stellt eine Auflehnung gegen Gesetzesglauben, Kasuistik, Intellektualität - eine von tiefem religiösem Gefühl, von Gottessehnsucht getragene Bewegung der Massen; sie betont Gemütswerte, Frömmigkeit, Demut, aber auch Freude und tätige Liebe. This religious movement within Judaism emerged around 1750 in the Ukraine and in Poland; it represents (like the German Pietist movement) the protest against legalist faith, casuistics, intellectuality - a popular movement with deep religious sentiment and longing for God. It emphasizes emotional values, piety, but also joy and active love. This movement has heavily influenced on Buber's thought. For five years, he had dived into the Chassidic texts while ceasing any other activity. buber.de
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