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Bart D Ehrman, I don't care what people say. I will fight for you. Despite the fact that your textbook incited rage in my classroom, and the fact that your name induces snarls from theologians I admire, I love your work and will defend your honor. You are an inspiration to me, and it is your work that induces my deep excitement in the analysis of ( Read more... ) -
loosely defined papal ideals
OH THE INTENSE CHAOS OF LATE NIGHT FINALS WRITING, THE RAPTURE EXQUISITE INDEED ( Read more... ) -
and the rest is rust and stardust
"I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, My Lolita."
nabakov
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Maybe rants like these are why my coworkers keep being confused that I'm a Christian. I'm not.
Okay, Jesus Christ Superstar, I still love you so, but you can't go mixing and matching the Passion stories (well, really, all of the Gospel) from just whatever the hell Gospel you feel like. The Passion stories/all the stories in the different Gospels are radically different in really incompatible ways. What makes you think you can just pick and ( Read more... ) -
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?
Tonight he tried to kill my God. It was simple, it took less than two sentences to cause an all-out spiritual meltdown. In the past year I have tenatively rebuilt the sanctuary, handpicking each brick. I adorned the walls and kissed the threshold of the Holy of Holies. This - this was the God I could love but who would not love back. (Sweet relief ( Read more... ) -
priestly code
The hallway outside my front door was littered with trashbags. Ever since she died that scribbled sign has been on their door: Do not disturb, Rick is renting. And the "n" in "renting" is crossed out in pencil, with an "s" written quickly above it. The brass knocker on the door has been taped down ( Read more... ) -
let's go, girls
"Campus Public Safety were alerted by the Seattle Police Department of a reported armed robbery that occurred Friday night, three blocks south of campus (11th and E. Spruce St)., at approximately 7 p.m. A female and male who are not SU students reported to police that an unknown male approached them on the street with a small handgun tucked in his ( Read more... )
