Pascale Soleil: faithfulHereticmatters of the spiritThis made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.- July 30, 2002 Sometimes you just read the right thing at the right time. From Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler's book Life Lessons: There are no mistakes in relationships, everything unfolds the way it's supposed to. From our first encounter with one another to our last good-bye, we are in relationships with each other. We learn through them to see our souls, with their rich topography, and to deliver ourselves to healing. When we let go of our preconceived agendas in loving relationships we set...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/faithfulheretic/2002/07/30.html#a206 A Catholic's Apologia- July 12, 2002 I expect I'll be reading Garry Wills's Why I am a Catholic. I'm not a Catholic, but I respect Wills's intelligence and am curious to read how he defines his faith. The relationship of a believer (self-defined) to a church (community) is the source both of strength and of stress for those who struggle to reconcile modernity and faith. Whether andor how to participate in any form of institution, no matter how loosely defined, shapes the experience of worship in basic ways. How much agreement...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/faithfulheretic/2002/07/12.html#a156 Moral Courage- July 9, 2002 How could I say that a would-be suicide bomber demonstrated incredible moral courage Because at the last minute she changed her mind, decided she could not and should not go through with it not out of cowardice or fear for her life, but because she finally saw that she would be killing innocents. So she refused, and withstood the harrassment and fury of her handlers who tried to force her to carry out her mission. (The fact that she wound up being arrested makes me wonder whether she was...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/faithfulheretic/2002/07/09.html#a150 Know Your Supreme Court (or Why We Have a Secular Democracy)- July 8, 2002 A scary NYTimes article about recent remarks from Chief Justice Antonin Scalia. What I find most appalling as a Christian is how he manages to deform even the Catholic church's teaching on the death penalty (which is pretty clearly ANTI). What I find most appalling as a citizen is that he wants to impose his religious framework on the deliberately secular political world that makes a plurastic society possible. Read, and be afraid. Be very afraid.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/faithfulheretic/2002/07/08.html#a148 |