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quotes from Hauerwas

July 26th, 2007 by isaac · 5 Comments

Stanley Hauerwas never gets old. He’s like an aged wine. Well, if he could keep some wine in the cellar it might age properly. But he just can’t keep from publishing books—it’s like one every year! He recently came out with The State of the University. And last year it was his commentary on [...]

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Tags: current events · political power

Paul’s Politics–a sermon for Epiphany

January 28th, 2007 by isaac · 2 Comments

Here’s a sermon from last week. It’s about politics; and Jim Wallis is my straw-man.
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Title: Paul’s Politics
Date: January 21, 2007
Texts: Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10; I Corinthians 12:12-31a; Luke 4:14-21

There’s so much talk about politics. If you pay attention to the news at all these days, it’s almost impossible to ignore the presidential fever in the [...]

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“Divine Strake”: the military claims divinity? sicut deus

January 19th, 2007 by isaac · 3 Comments

I switched on the radio on my way to pick up my wife from work yesterday. And I half-listened to a report of a community in Nevada protesting a possible test conducted by the The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (funded by the US Department of Defense). It was a good story—quite interesting and informative. But [...]

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Tags: current events · political power · technology · theology · war

Immigration Marches & Ambivalent Activism

May 1st, 2006 by Jason · 7 Comments

Coding away this afternoon I was interrupted by the rumble of many feet and voices marching just outside my door. I hurried up to the roof of our downtown office and was astounded to see a flood of white shirts, American flags, and brown faces stretching back for as far as I could see (more [...]

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