This one is for all of us, but especially for Mark in Georgia, who has been having a hard time. Sending prayers out to you, brother in Christ.
| Beatles - Let It B... |
Friday, May 4, 2007
Everyone needs this song once in a while
I'm in a Beatles marathon while finishing up grading for the semester and thankful to the folks at e-snips for the music in the night.
This one is for all of us, but especially for Mark in Georgia, who has been having a hard time. Sending prayers out to you, brother in Christ.
This one is for all of us, but especially for Mark in Georgia, who has been having a hard time. Sending prayers out to you, brother in Christ.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Akinola's ironies
As many of you know, I don't post a lot on Episcopal and Anglican politics, since the blogosphere is plenty full of that -- unless there are ecumenical or feminist aspects of the issues on which I want to comment or I feel that something ethically or otherwise demands my bloggish attention.
But this one falls somewhere between my two criteria --the first criterion, in case you are wondering, as in "wider ecumenism," as in "the state of the oikoumene," but just ignore this theological jargon if you please and click the link. The commentary to which it leads is more or less jargon-free. As the person who forwarded it wrote, read it and weep.
NOTE: The link above is a little wiggy so if it doesn't work, go here and click on the piece called "Anything But Straight: Nigeria's Frequent Flyer."
Back to the thick of end-of-semester grading and the latest round of Deep Academic Politics. And you thought the church had problems.
I'll be back as promised within days to answer my May 1 riddle. No real energy on this end to compose anything resembling an essay. I do check in for comments, though :-).
But this one falls somewhere between my two criteria --the first criterion, in case you are wondering, as in "wider ecumenism," as in "the state of the oikoumene," but just ignore this theological jargon if you please and click the link. The commentary to which it leads is more or less jargon-free. As the person who forwarded it wrote, read it and weep.
NOTE: The link above is a little wiggy so if it doesn't work, go here and click on the piece called "Anything But Straight: Nigeria's Frequent Flyer."
Back to the thick of end-of-semester grading and the latest round of Deep Academic Politics. And you thought the church had problems.
I'll be back as promised within days to answer my May 1 riddle. No real energy on this end to compose anything resembling an essay. I do check in for comments, though :-).
Darfur and global warming: the connection
**********************************************************************AP photoYou read that right.
This article from Seed is a follow-up on my question of three posts below this one, thanks to the ever resourceful and reliable janinsanfran of Happening Here (a.k.a. happening-here?) who, as I expected, came through with information. Thanks, Jan.
(Bookmark Jan's blog. Social, political, economic, cultural commentary and on-the-ground reporting. No blabla. Good photos. Thoughtful, solid, incisive, all those overused adjectives, but she deserves them. Can you tell I'm a fan? Oh yeah, and she's a member of an Episcopal congregation in San Francisco.)
Back to grading I go...
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Mother Jones
No, not the magazine. The original.
And either way, it's her day.
She was actually talking to Calvin Coolidge there.
I was hunting on the Web for a photo of her to post or for a copy of the semi-well-known icon by Robert Lentz (reproduced here without the Trinity store ad, haha – someone must have scanned a card of it) and found several reproductions of the icon including one on a blog I’d never visited which notes (back there two years ago – yes, the blog is still around) that MJ's birthday is May 1 ! And here I was just looking for her ‘cause it was the Day of Labor.
No time to check sources but even if it’s not really her birthday it’s a perfect day to honor her.
And the reason I am posting this is because I must wait a day or two before composing the answer to the question in the previous post. We are at the end of the semester at the institution where I teach and I am deep in reading student papers and calculating end of semester grades. Kirstin and Padre Mickey, there are answers to you in the comments section of the previous post.
So hurrah for Mother Jones, and remember what she said, as quoted on the icon: “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”I’m all for praying for the living too – but not just praying for them.
Here’s Ma Jones’s Autobiography. The author of a biographical profile says Mother Jones exaggerated her age (claiming to be 100 years old the year of her death). But her union work is fact and true and she sure knew what happened at the Haymarket in Chicago back that May 1. (That’s a chapter of her autobio.) A recent bio that looks quite solid (by Elliott Gorn) says the May 1 birth date is fiction and Mother Jones came up with this fiction in honor of Haymarket May Day. (Read this review of the book, it’s very interesting.) Okay, so I checked sources after all, fast.
No time to check sources but even if it’s not really her birthday it’s a perfect day to honor her.
And the reason I am posting this is because I must wait a day or two before composing the answer to the question in the previous post. We are at the end of the semester at the institution where I teach and I am deep in reading student papers and calculating end of semester grades. Kirstin and Padre Mickey, there are answers to you in the comments section of the previous post.
So hurrah for Mother Jones, and remember what she said, as quoted on the icon: “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”I’m all for praying for the living too – but not just praying for them.
Here’s Ma Jones’s Autobiography. The author of a biographical profile says Mother Jones exaggerated her age (claiming to be 100 years old the year of her death). But her union work is fact and true and she sure knew what happened at the Haymarket in Chicago back that May 1. (That’s a chapter of her autobio.) A recent bio that looks quite solid (by Elliott Gorn) says the May 1 birth date is fiction and Mother Jones came up with this fiction in honor of Haymarket May Day. (Read this review of the book, it’s very interesting.) Okay, so I checked sources after all, fast.
And either way, it's her day.
And that of countless others. Solidarity forever.
Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll be back.
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