Scribbling toward Sunday: Tap dancing on the Third Rail
Scripture reading for Sunday: Mark 1.21-28 Synopsis: Jesus in Capernaum, his home base. He is teaching in the synagogue“as one having authority” and he performs an exorcism. —— It is hard — extraordinarily hard — not to bring the politic (not Republican/Democrat, but rather our common life, “polis”) into Mark’s account of Jesus and still [...]
When the lid pops off.
There is, the the zeitgeist now, a sense of history repeating itself. 1968 comes to mind: the streets of Paris filled with student and workers. Students taking turns sitting in the dean’s chair at Occupied Columbia University. The August-heat chaos in the streets of Chicago. And now, today. Dictator in the Middle East is not [...]
Do I Contradict Myself?
Do I Contradict Myself? Neil Gabler, in today’s New York Times: It is no secret, especially here in America, that we live in a post-Enlightenment age in which rationality, science, evidence, logical argument and debate have lost the battle in many sectors, and perhaps even in society generally, to superstition, faith, opinion and orthodoxy. Not [...]
Still Point.
Today is the still point of this year’s vacation. It is the middle Saturday in the old-time American …
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