I'm sure many of you have read the utterly horrifying document "Letter from 2010 in Obama's America." Here Jim Wallis writes a scathing rebuke to Dobson and refutes Dobson's points. He calls Dobson out on his un-Christian behavior and states that Dobson is an embarrassment to young evangelicals and Christians around the world.

I couldn't agree more ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm sitting in class talking about the cross, the Holocaust, lynchings, and sexual abuse. I for real want to cry. Who the hell tells people the Eurcharist is about broken bodies and the glorification of suffering??? Some days I wonder if certain conservatives have any pastoral instincts at all!

I was not prepared for such a physical reaction ( Read more... )

Now that I'm married, no one invites me to parties anymore! And going out to the bar? I find out a couple of days later when all the pictures on Facebook show my friends, not completely in command of their faculties. I am officially an old woman at age 24. Did I do something wrong ( Read more... )

I don't know much. Sure, I've studied Pseudo-Dionysius, Aquinas, Kant, Schleiermacher, Descartes, and Kirekegaard. Sure, I can give you a rundown on Niebuhr and Tillich. And just about any feminist or liberation theology out there. I can tell you the contexts of New Testament books and major themes of the Hebrew Bible. I can talk your ear off all ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm just a little baby haxxor learning to hax with the big kids, but I feel this is the appropriate title for my announcement...

I've switched to Linux!

I did it for two reasons:

1) To kick The Man... in the balls. Hard. I am so sick of feeling powerless and fucked over by various societal systems, not the least of which is rampant capitalism, ( Read more... )

We were the alien, we were the outcast
Captive in Egypt, our parents were slaves
We knew the anguish, and then the deliverance
Freed by our Maker, whose mighty hand saves!

Different in practice and patterns of loving
Partnered in ways that seem strange to our own
These are the outcasts we bar from the table
Failing to witness the grace we've been shown

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This week the leader of the young adult group at Harvard-Epworth UMC died. She was 34; got her undergraduate at Wellesley and her masters at Harvard Law. She was a successful lawyer, beloved in her firm for her kindness, creativity, and brilliance. She killed herself ( Read more... )

 So tonight I was doing my homework for Theology of John Wesley (we have weekly quizzes) and I was thinking about my relationship to the text of the 6 sermons I was reading tonight in addition to 2 textbook chapters. At this time last year, I wouldn't have understood the 18th-century language or the "faith language" unique to the culture of the ( Read more... )

 Everyone wants to know, "How's married life?" Two words:

fucking.
insane.

1. School: I'm basically not doing any schoolwork beyond that which is the bare minimum. See below.
2. Internship: at Harvard-Epworth UMC, things are starting to get going. I'm scheduled to preach my first *real* sermon on October 19th. And people are getting excited about ( Read more... )

 So I lost my computer power cord and Stephen's laptop doesn't pick up the internet near our house as well as mine... it's slower and only gets one network. Thus, I am not online... hardly ever. Quick update:

* Interfaith Immigration Summit = awesome. Going to be doing some cool stuff in Boston with it.
* My mother's reception was embarrassing and ( Read more... )