Posted on February 6, 2008 by Jason Barr
Today is Ash Wednesday, also known as “Fat Tuesday hangover day”, also known as the beginning of the season of Lent. The Gospel reading for today, from the Daily Office Lectionary in the Book of Common Prayer:
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2008 by Jason Barr
“All the time I get emails from socially-aware individuals and organizations asking me to participate in ‘making poverty history’. I don’t believe poverty is necessarily the problem. Yes, it is true that there are millions of people in the world who do not have the means to feed their children or have clean drinking water, [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2008 by Jason Barr
This is one of King’s most important speeches and yet one of his most little-known. Delivered on April 4, 1967, exactly one year to the day before he was assassinated, this speech provides a scathing denunciation of the practices of the American government on the world stage, particularly in Vietnam. King extends his methodology of [...]
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Posted on November 21, 2007 by Jason Barr
I got this from Reflections of a Jazz Theologian:
Saint Augustine once said…
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive.
Gerald May adds…
If our hands are full, they are full of the things to which we are addicted. And not only our hands, but also our hearts, [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2007 by Jason Barr
I’m sure by now a lot of people have at least heard of Adbusters‘ “Buy Nothing Day“, a kind of subversive response to the mayhem that is “Black Friday“, the “official” beginning of the holiday shopping season. The Ecclesia Collective takes that initiative one step further with “Make Something Day“. I really like this idea, [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2007 by Jason Barr
The Qaddish, named from the Hebrew qadosh, “holy”, is one of the central prayers in Jewish worship. It is very old, going back to pre-Christian times. The Qaddish, in one of its shorter versions (from an ancient Jewish inscription) says:
Magnified and sanctified be his great name in the world He created according to His will. [...]
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