RWTT Blues
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arisbeWell, the Right Wing Think Tank across the river from D.C. has advised me that I am not on the short list to be interviewed. This of course leaves me writing college profiles for that other RWTT in New Sweden.
I sent off the one on Messiah, about which I am a good bit more positive now.
In my ceaseless research I had Maya pick up a copy of Gracious Christianity, Living the Love We Profess by Douglas Jacobsen and Rodney Sawatsky at Borders last night (she gets the professorial discount). Jacobsen is a professor there, and Sawatsky was president. I say was, because he was diagnosed with brain cancer as they were starting the book, and died just before it was finished. I stayed up to read it through, though I had a 7:40 appointment for physical therapy this morning.
If anyone out there who observes lent (or Great Lent) is still looking for reading material, this is something I am enthusiastic about, though it is neither Orthodox nor Catholic nor Anglican nor Quaker. Indeed, I intend to urge it on my Nyack students next month as the best short statement I have found so far of what the Christian religion, apart from sectarian differences, is all about. Far superior to Mere Christianity, if the Orthodox on my list will forgive that statement. And even if they won't.
I can imagine my pagan friends picking it up and exclaiming, If only that were what Christians really believe! Well, it is. It just ain't how we act, or even how we feel most of the time. Don't ask me why. Just the way folks are. Think of the war crimes perpetrated by nominal and maybe some not so nominal Buddhists. Enough to make you give the idea of sin a second look.
I sent off the one on Messiah, about which I am a good bit more positive now.
In my ceaseless research I had Maya pick up a copy of Gracious Christianity, Living the Love We Profess by Douglas Jacobsen and Rodney Sawatsky at Borders last night (she gets the professorial discount). Jacobsen is a professor there, and Sawatsky was president. I say was, because he was diagnosed with brain cancer as they were starting the book, and died just before it was finished. I stayed up to read it through, though I had a 7:40 appointment for physical therapy this morning.
If anyone out there who observes lent (or Great Lent) is still looking for reading material, this is something I am enthusiastic about, though it is neither Orthodox nor Catholic nor Anglican nor Quaker. Indeed, I intend to urge it on my Nyack students next month as the best short statement I have found so far of what the Christian religion, apart from sectarian differences, is all about. Far superior to Mere Christianity, if the Orthodox on my list will forgive that statement. And even if they won't.
I can imagine my pagan friends picking it up and exclaiming, If only that were what Christians really believe! Well, it is. It just ain't how we act, or even how we feel most of the time. Don't ask me why. Just the way folks are. Think of the war crimes perpetrated by nominal and maybe some not so nominal Buddhists. Enough to make you give the idea of sin a second look.
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Date: 2006-02-23 04:30 pm (UTC)Exactly.
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Date: 2006-02-23 04:48 pm (UTC)you know I work on capital hill, right?
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Date: 2006-02-23 04:48 pm (UTC)that anon post would be from me.
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Date: 2006-02-23 04:54 pm (UTC)Actually, I didn't know you were in the game. If I do move down, I'll look you up.
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Date: 2006-02-23 05:31 pm (UTC)'in the game is relative'...
I'm a member of that thin green line of government statisticians (BLS, not census) that keep the free world free.
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Date: 2006-02-23 04:50 pm (UTC)I am currently having the same thoughts about my current spiritual reading, Dangerous Wonder. Imagine, the whole world could be converted without apologetics if Christians themselves would just read the right books.
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Date: 2006-02-23 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 10:13 pm (UTC)Borders' "professorial discount"
Date: 2006-02-23 06:29 pm (UTC)While I worked as a full-time bookseller at Borders stores (1994-1999), our teacher discount applied only to those teaching K-12, and to materials for use in the classroom therein; professors at the college/university level did not qualify.
Curious as to whether the policy had changed, I checked the relevant web page
http://www.bordersstores.com/care/care.jsp?page=4
and noticed the policy remained:
"We're sorry, but student teachers, substitute teachers, teachers at a university, and teachers of adult education classes do not currently qualify for the discount."
Lucky Maya...her secret's safe with me...
Scott Lahti
Marquette/Gwinn, Michigan
Re: Borders' "professorial discount"
Date: 2006-02-24 01:05 am (UTC)Christians like you
Date: 2006-02-23 07:29 pm (UTC)-a Thelemite.
P.S. Hope you get the job.
Re: Christians like you
Date: 2006-02-23 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 05:36 am (UTC)I do not really understand about think tanks
so just sorry a job didnt come through,
I see Messiah is in Philadelphia as well as
Grantham, where is Grantham?
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Date: 2006-02-24 02:06 pm (UTC)