Goodbye for Now …
Many of us can look backwards into specific times of our lives when we made truly momentous changes. Since July of last year I have been going through one such part of my own journey. It is marked by some of the first and best clarity and insight I have ever had, but it has been an expensive and draining experience. As with many such journeys, having gone through it I realize why most are unwilling to let go of their past and embrace new challenges: the potential of failure is very real. It is in the act of failing that we many times see our own problems more clearly than any success can ever ...Andrew Sullivan’s Comments from WaPo on Bart Ehrman
Andrew Sullivan's recent blogging has had much to do with the Muslim outrage in Europe and what we should make of it. As he has written on this, he has engaged Christian fundamentalism within America in an attempt to point out to fellow Americans how easily we can overlook the seeds of despotism within our own culture, which too much within Christianity easily identifies. Andrew's most recent blog entry, which happens to borrow from the Washington Post's book review of Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus, can be seen below: The Washington Post has an engrossing story today about theologian and Biblical scholar, Bart Ehrman, author of "Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why." The story of ...Thomas Jefferson & Christianity
The best biography of Jefferson may also be one of the shortest, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America. Today, Andrew Sullivan posted a comment from Jefferson about his thoughts on Christianity: "My views of the Christian religion are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from the anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity, I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wanted anyone to be: sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; and believing he ...Kaplan on Iraq
Robert Kaplan's newest op-ed piece in the Washington Post has some much needed insights into the situation in Iraq: "President Bush has posited that the American experience with democracy is urgently useful to the wider world. True, but there is another side of the coin: that America basically inherited its institutions from the Anglo-Saxon tradition and thus its experience over 230 years has been about limiting despotic power rather than creating power from scratch. Because order is something we've taken for granted, anarchy is not something we've feared. But in many parts of the world, the experience has been the opposite, and so is the challenge: how to create legitimate, functioning institutions in utterly barren landscapes. '[B]efore the names of Just and ...About MysteriousFaith
“If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.”
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