“One of the big things we’re fighting for right now is collaboration. With the oncoming of (the neighborhood schools model) we’ve tried to come with the district to create ways to build time into our

The Great Purge encouraged Hook’s increasing ambivalence toward Marxism. In 1939, Hook formed the Committee for Cultural Freedom, a short-lived organization that set the stage for his postwar politics by opposing “totalitarianism” on the left

So Barth acquired a new dramatic concept of Christianity: the point was not to explain a worldview to skeptical outsiders but to perform this cultic rhetoric. The priority of preaching to theology was absolute. –

“Negative capability,” he [Keats] wrote, “is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching out after fact and reason.” This means the ability to hold contrary or even

‘It is not religious because of the quality of its faith,’ says Eliot, ‘but because of the quality of its doubt. Its faith is a poor thing, but its doubt is a very intense experience.’ 

8/16/19 Another result from ELCA Churchwide Assembly – ‘Adopted a resolution to condemn white supremacy, calling all ELCA congregations to engage in a “study of the structures and rhetoric that empower and fuel racism and

I read multiple books at the same time, the real strange part of this is jumping from century to century, as in the 19th to the 20th. This Edith Wharton book ‘Age of Innocence’ takes

The question at issue was not, How can individual sinners find salvation? but rather, Are Christian Jews bound, by the Jewish kosher laws, to eat separately from Christian Gentiles, or are they bound by the

‘But for Paul, the problem is not that individuals and communities sin and need forgiveness; in fact, Israel had a system of atonement to deal with sins. The problem is that sin and its henchman

2/3/11 The theme of the unmasking of hypocrisy is seen in two different books I am reading, Darkness at Noon and The Invisible Man. In both the protagonist believes in the abstract ideals of the