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Our Daily Links: We're Totally Thankful Edition

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Thanks to two Jewish authors, the Bible has now been revised for Jews.

Miss the first Response, Rick Perry’s church revival?  No worries.  Thankfully four more are scheduled for December, January and February, though they’ve dropped their affiliation “with any presidential candidate.” (h/t Becky Garrison)

Hallelujah.  We have 37 more days of Frequencies, a joint project of The Immanent Frame and Killing the Buddha.  Now go read all 62 past!

Thankfully, the Pope is concerned about the spread of HIV/AIDs in Africa.  Like Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, we think there are things he could do if he were sincere.

In thinking about the question, “Are morals derived from religion?” we thankfully find this bit of news on anti-gay activity in anti-religion Russia helpful.

Evangelicals aren’t Catholics.  They should be thankful they’re not and resist temptations to “cross the Tiber” as Chris Armstrong puts it.

U.S. Catholic thinks that Catholics have very strong opinions about Obama.  Who doesn’t?!  They’re asking readers to fill out this survey on just how much you appreciate the president; they’ll publish the results in time for President’s Day.

Also, check out the list of law suits U.S. Catholic published earlier this month.  They are examples of cases that challenge the idea of religious freedom.  Then thank your founding fathers for a constitution that guarantees equality and freedom of conscience to all citizens.  You might also like to write a letter of thanks to your local bishop. Continue Reading →

Our Daily Links: We’re Totally Thankful Edition

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Thanks to two Jewish authors, the Bible has now been revised for Jews.

Miss the first Response, Rick Perry’s church revival?  No worries.  Thankfully four more are scheduled for December, January and February, though they’ve dropped their affiliation “with any presidential candidate.” (h/t Becky Garrison)

Hallelujah.  We have 37 more days of Frequencies, a joint project of The Immanent Frame and Killing the Buddha.  Now go read all 62 past!

Thankfully, the Pope is concerned about the spread of HIV/AIDs in Africa.  Like Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, we think there are things he could do if he were sincere.

In thinking about the question, “Are morals derived from religion?” we thankfully find this bit of news on anti-gay activity in anti-religion Russia helpful.

Evangelicals aren’t Catholics.  They should be thankful they’re not and resist temptations to “cross the Tiber” as Chris Armstrong puts it.

U.S. Catholic thinks that Catholics have very strong opinions about Obama.  Who doesn’t?!  They’re asking readers to fill out this survey on just how much you appreciate the president; they’ll publish the results in time for President’s Day.

Also, check out the list of law suits U.S. Catholic published earlier this month.  They are examples of cases that challenge the idea of religious freedom.  Then thank your founding fathers for a constitution that guarantees equality and freedom of conscience to all citizens.  You might also like to write a letter of thanks to your local bishop. Continue Reading →

The Medievals Loved Creation

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Chris Armstrong on Emile Male and the medieval “love affair” with Creation:

On the theme of what I think can fairly be called medievals’ “Creation spirituality,” Male portrays medieval artists and art as saturated in that sense of the sacramentality of all created things that Gregory the Great bequeathed to the Middle Ages—the understanding that God is continually communicating to us in everything he makes. Male takes this to be an extension of the principle of allegorical interpretation: that under the literal sense of scripture hide deeper spiritual meanings.

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Anglicans Jumping Ship

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Chris Armstrong writes at his blog, Grateful to the Dead:

Any headline involving the words “Oxford professor” (turns out it’s a church history professor, too!) and “hissy fit” has me intrigued, to say the least. Add the fact that I had no idea what an “Ordinariate” is, and I jumped right on this article from the London Telegraph’s blogsite. But first, to understand that oddball (to me) term, I had to read another article, about Church of England bishops jumping ship to become Roman Catholic: Continue Reading →

Not Your Mama's Fundamentalism

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Chris Armstrong recently posted at his blog, Grateful to the Dead, a brief history of fundamentalism in America.  The entry was originally written for the Encyclopedia of Religion in America which came out last month.  Here’s an excerpt from his post introduction:

The basic argument of what follows is this: Fundamentalism in America changed after the 1970s–perhaps so much that the word “fundamentalism” is no longer appropriate for what it became. In that decade, the movement began a tectonic shift from protecting theological truths in infra-denominational fights to guarding “Christian morality” in a nation specially chosen by God.

To be sure, “correct” views of the person of Christ and his atoning work, along with vividly detailed end-time scenarios, have continued to occupy an important place in the movement, but these things are not what the “new fundamentalists” are most centrally about. No, they have seen America locked in a battle with a secularizing juggernaut, and they have rushed to take up the “arms” of pragmatic political measures and boundary-breaking religious alliances in order to gain the upper hand.

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Not Your Mama’s Fundamentalism

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Chris Armstrong recently posted at his blog, Grateful to the Dead, a brief history of fundamentalism in America.  The entry was originally written for the Encyclopedia of Religion in America which came out last month.  Here’s an excerpt from his post introduction:

The basic argument of what follows is this: Fundamentalism in America changed after the 1970s–perhaps so much that the word “fundamentalism” is no longer appropriate for what it became. In that decade, the movement began a tectonic shift from protecting theological truths in infra-denominational fights to guarding “Christian morality” in a nation specially chosen by God.

To be sure, “correct” views of the person of Christ and his atoning work, along with vividly detailed end-time scenarios, have continued to occupy an important place in the movement, but these things are not what the “new fundamentalists” are most centrally about. No, they have seen America locked in a battle with a secularizing juggernaut, and they have rushed to take up the “arms” of pragmatic political measures and boundary-breaking religious alliances in order to gain the upper hand.

Continue Reading →