I liked the story of your dad, lots of us have grown up in families that struggle with many things but still can look ok on the outside for the world to see. Keep up the writing, thanks.
I especially enjoyed Window 17 from your Advent Calendar series. Your reminiscing of your conversation with your Dad about the "Tree of Memories" resonated with me, even as I sat gazing at my own family's Christmas tree this year and let my eyes wander from ornament to ornament from my childhood. All in all, we now have ornaments spanning nearly 50 years of my life represented on our tree. Incredible!
Thank you for your writings. I do enjoy receiving your email notifications, knowing that I have a new gem to read through.
Best to you in 2022. May you remain resolute and bold. And may you stay healthy & safe, too!
I so appreciate your work, your insights, your articulation of questions, your exploration of words we take so easily for granted. The word religion, now there's one to ponder. Religare, to bind and so on. Two thoughts for you, I just listened to the All Saints Day talk and kept waiting to hear you tie religare to the unbinding of both Lazarus and Jesus. The other thought is this, in music, the word legato (Italian) is meant to draw the musician to a greater sense of flowing, smooth, unbroken line. The etymology of that word from the Latin is also bound. Thank you for your excavation of Mary Magdalene. More please ! You are providing such needed perspective on this whole subject sometimes classified as religion-- but I am beginning to think it is very much more.
I so appreciate your work, your insights, your articulation of questions, your exploration of words we take so easily for granted. The word religion, now there's one to ponder. Religare, to bind and so on. Two thoughts for you, I just listened to the All Saints Day talk and kept waiting to hear you tie religare to the unbinding of both Lazarus and Jesus. The other thought is this, in music, the word legato (Italian) is meant to draw the musician to a greater sense of flowing, smooth, unbroken line. The etymology of that word from the Latin is also bound. Thank you for your excavation of Mary Magdalene. More please ! You are providing such needed perspective on this whole subject sometimes classified as religion-- but I am beginning to think it is very much more.
Ms. B-B....Insightful/inciteful/wonderful end of year round up. I expecially liked, in this order, #6, 4 and 2. All about politics and faith, rather than faith and politics. I'm a social historian....and am truly apprehensive about what I see coming down the pike at us: recently heard the phrase "national divorce," and started to realize how bad things REALLY are. And finally, not sure having all those evangelicals walk away (be driven away) from their "faith" and into mainline churches is a good thing for the mainline churches.
Definitely will increase membership (and stewardship funds?), but may divide the church on the receiving end of the new "members" and funds in ways that are not all that good.
True, the newbies will be seeking churches/a better place/community/whatever than the one(s) they left...but NOT THAT MUCH BETTER...and I think you get my drift re the caps.
And finally, in/at the church I now go to (btw, I'm culturally-but-not-religiously Jewish), I've noticed a new (and concerning) focus on the Old Testament' readings (and a harsh and tribal God) and abstruse doctrine and deep-diving theology in the Sunday morning services and forums and AWAY from the social activism and community that drew me to the church in the first place. It is not a comforting or welcoming place for me anymore, and I'll probably be moving on to a less navel-gazing church...probably the Unitarian one that's just down the road. Yes, I will miss the friends I've made there...but not the increasingly restrictive (as in this is the way/the only way to be our kind of Episcopalian) atmosphere.
I liked the story of your dad, lots of us have grown up in families that struggle with many things but still can look ok on the outside for the world to see. Keep up the writing, thanks.
I especially enjoyed Window 17 from your Advent Calendar series. Your reminiscing of your conversation with your Dad about the "Tree of Memories" resonated with me, even as I sat gazing at my own family's Christmas tree this year and let my eyes wander from ornament to ornament from my childhood. All in all, we now have ornaments spanning nearly 50 years of my life represented on our tree. Incredible!
Thank you for your writings. I do enjoy receiving your email notifications, knowing that I have a new gem to read through.
Best to you in 2022. May you remain resolute and bold. And may you stay healthy & safe, too!
I so appreciate your work, your insights, your articulation of questions, your exploration of words we take so easily for granted. The word religion, now there's one to ponder. Religare, to bind and so on. Two thoughts for you, I just listened to the All Saints Day talk and kept waiting to hear you tie religare to the unbinding of both Lazarus and Jesus. The other thought is this, in music, the word legato (Italian) is meant to draw the musician to a greater sense of flowing, smooth, unbroken line. The etymology of that word from the Latin is also bound. Thank you for your excavation of Mary Magdalene. More please ! You are providing such needed perspective on this whole subject sometimes classified as religion-- but I am beginning to think it is very much more.
I so appreciate your work, your insights, your articulation of questions, your exploration of words we take so easily for granted. The word religion, now there's one to ponder. Religare, to bind and so on. Two thoughts for you, I just listened to the All Saints Day talk and kept waiting to hear you tie religare to the unbinding of both Lazarus and Jesus. The other thought is this, in music, the word legato (Italian) is meant to draw the musician to a greater sense of flowing, smooth, unbroken line. The etymology of that word from the Latin is also bound. Thank you for your excavation of Mary Magdalene. More please ! You are providing such needed perspective on this whole subject sometimes classified as religion-- but I am beginning to think it is very much more.
Ms. B-B....Insightful/inciteful/wonderful end of year round up. I expecially liked, in this order, #6, 4 and 2. All about politics and faith, rather than faith and politics. I'm a social historian....and am truly apprehensive about what I see coming down the pike at us: recently heard the phrase "national divorce," and started to realize how bad things REALLY are. And finally, not sure having all those evangelicals walk away (be driven away) from their "faith" and into mainline churches is a good thing for the mainline churches.
Definitely will increase membership (and stewardship funds?), but may divide the church on the receiving end of the new "members" and funds in ways that are not all that good.
True, the newbies will be seeking churches/a better place/community/whatever than the one(s) they left...but NOT THAT MUCH BETTER...and I think you get my drift re the caps.
And finally, in/at the church I now go to (btw, I'm culturally-but-not-religiously Jewish), I've noticed a new (and concerning) focus on the Old Testament' readings (and a harsh and tribal God) and abstruse doctrine and deep-diving theology in the Sunday morning services and forums and AWAY from the social activism and community that drew me to the church in the first place. It is not a comforting or welcoming place for me anymore, and I'll probably be moving on to a less navel-gazing church...probably the Unitarian one that's just down the road. Yes, I will miss the friends I've made there...but not the increasingly restrictive (as in this is the way/the only way to be our kind of Episcopalian) atmosphere.