FROM the NY TIMES: March 28, 2010 Upper West Side Church Offers Homeless a Home, and More By ANN FARMER Crystal Chatwood and Eugene Thomas had hitchhiked from Georgia to Florida in search of work, and finding none, had taken a ride north to New York with another couple. The couple dropped them off in [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Homeless find a home in a New York Methodist Church
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Learning to fly (Music therapy from the Petty one)
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I’ve never been a huge fan of Tom Petty, although friends have always said that he and his band the Heartbreakers have to be seen live to be appreciated. They are on my bucket list of bands to catch some day. ——- Gunars Binde photography
McCain’s salute to veterans infuriates fams of veterans
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John McCain’s in for the re-election race of his life, and it’s just astounding the things he’s said and done lately. None is more astounding that a misstatement–some call it a bald-face political lie– he made about veterans earlier this month (see report below), and a lot of vets and families of those killed and [...]
To love others, first empty your trash (Noon Wine)
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Paul said in one of the most significant scriptures he ever wrote about Jesus Christ that even though Christ was in the form of God, he “emptied” himself, became a slave (rather than a master or dictator; see yesterday’s Noon Wine), humbled himself, and served his Father with obedience all the way to death on [...]
Speaking of Louie “Satchmo”: Him on “What’s My Line”?
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How in the world could Louis Armstrong begin to disguise that gravely voice? BTW, if you grew up with this great TV show—you probably subscribe to AARP magazine. >
Mahalia Jackson & “Pops”: Your Regular Tuesday Afternoon Special
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“If religion was a thing that money could buy . . . the rich would live, the poor would die . . .” But Mahalia Jackson points out in the soulful spiritual that she’s not worried about a thing, yaw. . . . Your longtime jitterbuggers know that yer Jitterbugger loves him some Mahalia and [...]
The Fear of God, the Death of God (Noon Wine)
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I see God as a loving humanitarian, not a tyrant and dictator who enslaves people with harsh law and justice. My theology of God has nothing to do with slave mentality that makes me a “slave” to God, and negative servitude and fear of the sort that the German philosopher Nietzsche criticized so hard and [...]
New Methodist Missions Leader: The World is his Parish
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{In the photo by John C. Goodwin of United Methodist News Service: Thomas Kemper, the new leader of the Methodist Board of Global Missions, speaks at a memorial service for the Revs. Sam Dixon and Clinton Rabb at Riverside Church in New York. Dixon and Rabb are the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) agency [...]
Mark Twain: The Man in White (“Our first superstar”)
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Stayed up way too late last night finishing the much-acclaimed biography Mark Twain: Man in White:The Grand Adventure of his Final Years. There’s worse ways to lose sleep that reading yet another terrific biography of this great American icon who, for my money, is the best writer this country has ever produced. But then–I’m a [...]
Your guide to Passover art & culture (Cool Bloggers Div.)
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Menachem Wecker blogs for my old newspaper stomping grounds, The Houston Chronicle, about religion and art. It’s some pretty sophisticated stuff he gets into both in terms of art and theology–he knows his stuff, and covers not only Judaism but Christian art and others. Since we’re in Passover this week, here’s his top five list [...]
