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Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: Living Love for Lent
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Where the secular and sacred meet. Wednesday, March 09, 2011. Living Love for Lent. For some reason (perhaps because I'm reading John D. Caputo's. The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion. This question from Augustine comes to mind for Lent:. Quid ergo amo, cum deum meum amo? What do I love when I love my God? Says IS love. To live in love, and to live out love. To love this Lent. To let love - unfixed and undefined - become my habit. Quid ergo amo, cum deum meum amo? Augustine...
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Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: January 2009
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Where the secular and sacred meet. Thursday, January 29, 2009. Scandal on Wall Street: Corporate Bonuses Amidst Depression = Class Warfare. While scandalously high corporate bonuses have been the norm of late, as executive "compensation" has badly outpaced the pay of people who actually work for a living, it seems especially flagrant to "reward" executives with hefty bonuses as the financial sector tumbles. Yet, according to Ben White of the New York Times. That is exactly what's happening. I heard an aw...
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Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: On LeBron James, Psychoanalyzing Sports, and the Dangers of Expecting Gods in Flesh
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Where the secular and sacred meet. Monday, June 13, 2011. On LeBron James, Psychoanalyzing Sports, and the Dangers of Expecting Gods in Flesh. I'm not a "fan" of LeBron James. I don't know him personally, and have nothing invested in his success or failure. But I'm even less a fan of psychoanalyzing sports, especially since, from such a distance, there's so much information we don't have access to. So, see this: 29 of his team's last 30 points. In a crucial playoff win. Why did we forget this? This way o...
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Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: March 2011
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Where the secular and sacred meet. Thursday, March 31, 2011. Don't Rush Miracles: A Lenten Reflection. This is a sermon that I will be preaching this Sunday at Community Church of Wilmette, in Wilmette, IL. It is based on a sermon I preached last year during Lent at Fourth Ave United Methodist Church in Louisville, KY. I often hesitate to publish the text of my sermons, because they are meant to be heard rather than read, but from time to time I make exceptions, and this is one such case. Jacob may have ...
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Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: July 2009
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Where the secular and sacred meet. Friday, July 10, 2009. But what's it all MEAN, man? Note: I wrote this bit of absurd randomness as a Note on Facebook - look me up. If you Facbook. That's where I waste most of my Internet time these days. I'm beginning to learn why Zen masters are so reticent to share their accumulated wisdom. And I love it. I really do. It is an honor to be of some use to someone who is wrestling with whatever it is we wrestle with from time to time. That divine being who ...I can't a...
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Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: June 2011
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Where the secular and sacred meet. Monday, June 13, 2011. On LeBron James, Psychoanalyzing Sports, and the Dangers of Expecting Gods in Flesh. I'm not a "fan" of LeBron James. I don't know him personally, and have nothing invested in his success or failure. But I'm even less a fan of psychoanalyzing sports, especially since, from such a distance, there's so much information we don't have access to. So, see this: 29 of his team's last 30 points. In a crucial playoff win. Why did we forget this? This way o...
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Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: Holy Saturday reflection
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Where the secular and sacred meet. Saturday, April 23, 2011. A brief reflection for a day that is, to me, so holy because it is - unlike the rest of Holy Week - so common. Holy Saturday, for me, crystalizes this life, lived as it is somewhere between the fear of death and hope in the resurrection. The God who was near is now far; the God who was alive is now dead and buried, and may never have been God at all. Easter is coming, but how would we know, how would we dare to hope? April 25, 2011 6:05 AM.
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Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: Reboot
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Where the secular and sacred meet. Tuesday, November 09, 2010. I'm thinking about rebooting this blog. It has been sitting in cyberspace, long neglected by its less than loving parent. There's some good stuff here, and there's also a great deal here that I'd like to revisit as my theology changes. And change it has and change it must, for change is part of the nature of life and faith, and should be expected in the life of faith. Thoughtful critics will say that there has never been a Golden Age in Ameri...
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Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: Review of Ann W. Astell's Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages
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Where the secular and sacred meet. Thursday, November 11, 2010. Review of Ann W. Astell's. Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages. I really need to get this book and read it. If nothing else, maybe it will urge me to research/write about some of the holes she leaves considering the idea of eating beauty. November 11, 2010 10:34 AM. Move from the past into the present and future. November 11, 2010 11:06 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. I tri...
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Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: April 2011
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Where the secular and sacred meet. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Resurrection is an Affirmation of Death, Not a Denial of Death. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The Denial of Death. Die This is partly what is meant by the enigmatic scene we find in the 11th chapter of John's gospel, were Jesus stands outside the tomb of Lazarus, who he is about to call out of the tomb, weeping for his friend. For, in that moment, Lazarus was dead,. Die (This emphasis on. A death, but only seeme...