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ant foreman heather cox richardson post viral disorders why this blog ted today a blog by ted leach menu home about conversations across time grant foreman heather cox richardson post viral disorders why this blog month august 2021 civility music nonviolence august 31 2021 august 30 2021 ethics of war and peace my phone received a news alert yesterday the us military has departed afghanistan officials said ending a 20 year occupation and leaving the country in the taliban s hands i was relieved two things came to mind the 1966 song last train to clarksville and restrepo restrepo was a 2010 documentary about a us mountain outpost in afghanistan named for juan sebastián restrepo 1986 2007 a 20 year old colombian immigrant a us soldier and medic who died there in christian ethics there have been three major attitudes about war and peace pacifism the just war and the crusade the great historian roland bainton said of crusades the worst wars are holy wars this is something to think about maybe blog about for the next three days from christian attitudes toward war and peace a historical survey and critical re evaluation 1979 1 comment humor interspiritual people august 30 2021 august 29 2021 aging well yesterday i shared with malcolm s sunday school class what i learned last week and shared with you about truth and wisdom the class affirmed roberta bondi s words about aging from yesterday s post several class members are in their 90s and it s encouraging to a young guy like me to see them joyous and excited about aging they cheered malcolm s and betty s 72nd wedding anniversary humor is essential one of the class announcements was about an upcoming church financial informational meeting malcolm chimed in that the church was flush and might declare a dividend bondi s encounter with the desert fathers and mothers led me to articles about ancient egyptian monasteries some of which have been in continuous operation since the 400s saint catherine s monastery at mount sinai has the world s oldest continuously operating library dating from the 500s the monastery of st anthony is the world s oldest coptic monastery the monasteries at wadi el natrun are rich with stories such as the desert abba st john the short three cheers for old people and short people from 7 most beautiful coptic orthodox monasteries in egypt local guide to egypt november 27 2020 1 comment people prophetic voices august 29 2021 august 28 2021 truth and wisdom jesus called king herod that fox he relativized roman power give to the emperor the things that are the emperor s and to god the things that are god s don t look to emperors for truth or wisdom in 312 emperor constantine embraced christianity which he saw as a unifying force within the empire he convened the council of nicea in 325 to create greater uniformity in the church when christianity became the empire s official religion the politics of power reshaped its understanding of truth or wisdom emphasizing conformity of behavior and belief dissenters went to desert hermitages or monasteries roberta bondi found truth and wisdom in her study of the solitude seekers we know as the desert fathers and mothers bondi said they convinced me that there is a real trajectory to human life summarized in jesus great commandment we are to spend our lives learning to love god with all our hearts and our neighbors as ourselves and they convinced me this really is our lifetime s work it will get easier and better as we grow into that love this insight was totally contrary to the prevailing conventional view that old age means life gets worse roberta bondi 2 comments art interspiritual movies august 28 2021 august 28 2021 great suffering great love the previously cited new yorker article by eliza griswold quotes richard rohr my belief is that the two universal paths are great love and great suffering thirty years ago i first saw a 7 minute film about a disfigured boy named alfredo the only survivor of his family s house fire we used it each year in our confirmation classes when i was in seminary i was the pastor for a friend who lost his wife to an accidental drug overdose and who died a few months later with cancer i visited him numerous times at st vincent s hospital which had a crucifix above the door inside each room a graphic reminder that suffering is part of our common journey i think of these things when i think about covid or when i read about a young dentist who died four miles from the kabul airport when he and another young man fell from a c 17 likely as the landing gear closed or when i hear about the young marine an expectant dad who was one of the 13 us service people among the scores of others killed or wounded thursday in the suicide bomb explosion at the abbey gate or when i hear about the 20 people who died and the 272 homes lost in the tennessee flood or when i think about a strong hurricane tracking toward louisiana the crucifix helped alfredo it helps me too there s nothing magical about it a crucifix is simply an icon window of healing in which the path of great suffering and the path of great love converge from the movie about alfredo cited above baptism sacrament of belonging franciscan communications center 1969 3 comments interspiritual august 27 2021 august 27 2021 truth general and specific my friend malcolm asked me to lead his sunday school class in a discussion about pilate s question to jesus what is truth yesterday barbara holmes gave me a window into that topic she echoed leander keck s words 45 years ago in seminary the historical jesus and the risen christ inform each other what we know about jesus who lived long ago helps us connect with the dynamic spiritual reality that s been experienced through the ages such as paul s encounter with the risen one on the road to damascus keck and many others prepared me to hear richard rohr and barbara holmes yearn for a faith that is both personal and universal holmes can confront injustice because she is empowered by a relationship with the flesh and blood personal jesus upon whom i depend truth can be gleaned from specific moments such as the jesus story and by engaging a timeless cosmic reality known by many names in countless ways always and everywhere as holmes reminds us we find god simultaneously in ourselves and in the outer world beyond ourselves not light years away but in every cell of our star born bodies i carry the same divine spark in me that is in every living thing from the historical jesus by claudia setzer in frontline s series from jesus to christ pbs july 17 1995 leave a comment interspiritual august 26 2021 august 25 2021 broader than christianity eliza griswold s new yorker article cited yesterday captures richard rohr s significance for our time i m sure he winced or chuckled at the title richard rohr reorders the universe rohr said thomas merton pulled back the curtain so people in our time could rediscover the contemplative tradition rohr might say he simply has tried to pull back the curtain so we could rediscover a universal cosmic reality the universal christ 2019 coalesces all of rohr s big thoughts the sub title is instructive how a forgotten reality can change everything we see hope for and believe he echoes an old idea from the gospel of john in the beginning of creation was the word that became flesh in jesus rohr says this spiritual reality the universal or cosmic christ is pre existent and eternal always here and everywhere from griswold s third paragraph god s love for the world has existed since the beginning of time suffuses everything in creation and has been present in all cultures and civilizations jesus is an incarnation of that spirit and following him is our best shortcut to accessing it but this spirit can also be found through the practices of other religions rohr like merton is part of a spiritual communion broader than christianity from the universal christ a book review by jon m sweeney spirituality practice 2 comments art interspiritual august 25 2021 august 24 2021 rohr yesterday i ran across a february 2020 new yorker article by eliza griswold about richard rohr now 78 griswold spent a day with rohr at his center for action and contemplation in albuquerque if you ve read these posts with any regularity you re aware that rohr is a significant resource for me around 2005 he entered my consciousness through several friends whose judgment i greatly trust i was in a study group that spent several days with him at the cac just before falling upward was published in 2011 when i read the book a few months later i could hear his voice as i read his words for a decade i was part of a group that used the cac s daily meditations as the basis for our weekly conversations now my friend joe and i have a weekly facetime conversation about those readings rohr has helped deepen my appreciation for the best of the christian tradition while at the same time helping me think beyond christianity to embrace some universal themes shared by many traditions tomorrow i ll use griswold s article available here as the starting point for several posts about how rohr has helped expand my view of things illustration by ohni lisle from richard rohr reorders the universe by eliza griswold the new yorker february 2 2020 1 comment grace people august 24 2021 august 24 2021 the determinative motif in the mid 1950s my friend joe picked up a transformational idea from his seminary professor nels f s ferré 1908 1971 ferré had three conversions 1 to a rules based christianity 2 to radical questioning then 3 to agape undeserved unconditional self giving love ferré said god s love is the determinative distinctive motif of christianity agape constitutes christianity s ultimate principle of interpretation this determinative motif is based not on human merit but on forgiving love for ferré agape love is grace life s determinative motif yesterday i heard an echo of ferré when i read barbara holmes words i ve spent a lifetime working to unclog racism sexism gender sexual identity bias often with the subliminal presumption that if dominant culture would just include others all would be well then she wrote that if inclusion is to be meaningful everyone and everything is included from the beginning not in socially constructed hierarchies but included in a web of life set forth from the foundations of the earth sometimes i regress into us versus them thinking but i receive ferré s determinative motif and holmes radical inclusiveness as a woven together exotic unending invitation to new life photo of colby hall 1866 at andover newton where ferré received a theology degree in 1934 and later was a professor of theology andover newton is the oldest seminary in the us 1807 2 comments people sports august 23 2021 august 22 2021 giannis antetokounmpo charles and veronica antetokounmpo emigrated to greece from nigeria in 1991 they were undocumented life was tough they faced the possibility of deportation they experienced anti immigration attitudes in 2007 spiros velliniatis saw the athletic potential of giannis and his older brother thanasis velliniatis was a coach of amateur basketball players he persuaded their mother to let them play basketball in 2013 giannis became a greek citizen just before he was the 15th player chosen in the nba draft by the milwaukee bucks thanasis also plays for the bucks their younger brother kostas plays for the los angeles lakers now all three brothers have played on a nba championship team his early years in poverty taught giannis some vital life lessons he s grateful for milwaukee s hospitality he s finding ways to give back after scoring 50 points in the 2021 final game and being named mvp giannis was asked how he learned so early to handle his ego click here for his two minute answer 2 comments humor august 22 2021 august 21 2021 horse sense trump supporters should herald his administration s warp speed efforts to develop covid 19 vaccines the fda is expected to give full approval to the pfizer vaccine tomorrow some fox news personalities are skeptical of the vaccines as is a large swath of the former president s fans including some republican officials their latest vaccine alternative is ivermectin on friday the mississippi poison control center released a statement that it had received an increasing number of calls from individuals with potential ivermectin exposure taken to treat or prevent covid 19 infection at least 70 of the recent calls have been related to ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers the mississippi state department of health is urging people not to take the horse de worming medication as an in home remedy to treat or prevent covid 19 the fox endorsement and the rising use of ivermectin reminded me of sheriff taylor s arrest of aunt bee and the ladies aid church committee for getting tipsy with a tall handsome traveling salesman s elixer colonel harvey s 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