What’s new in the neighborhood? A-WAR-DS EDITION
The do-gooder award goes to the Rev. Chuck Currie who is putting work before food, and he’s jubilant about it. It’s part of the Jubilee USA Sabbath campaign which will be ramping up this Fall.
Bored with the usual wanker’s in faith and politics news these days? Street Prophet’s Pastor Dan isn’t conned; he nails a DOUBLE wanker post on Beliefnet’s Crunchy Con Rod Dreher (beware: lame TNT ad).
Want more award ceremonial posts? JSpot catches up on the news and gives a “piggy award” to Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) for being. . .well, let them explain:
waving his little hoofs in the air and saying “look at me! I’m so pure and perfect and morally righteous.†Deep down underneath we’re finally, once again, seeing another one of these religious-right moralists for what he is, a hypocrite. Treif. Bacon!
God’s Politics’ Jim Wallis starts the count down on the Iraq war. He (or his surrogate) writes:
This brutal, ugly, and wholly unnecessary war may finally be coming to an end. And the role of the church could and should be decisive in making it so. I hear no more voices who still say this is a “just war.” Many of us don’t believe it ever was and that the nonviolent path of Jesus has again been vindicated. But regardless of past positions, we should all now agree that unjust wars must be ended as an obligation of faith.
Muslim chic? Brother Ali, the rapper? Oh, you don’t know these things? Get hip with Islamicate.
This week’s “oh snap” title award goes to Faithful Progressive: Even CBN Thinks Romney Is an Idiot for Bashing Obama on Personal Body Space
Velveteen Rabbi has been thinking intensely about theodicy for a week. She writes, “The morning class I took at smicha students’ week was a history/philosophy class called “Theodicy, Catastrophe, and Paradigm Shift,” taught by Reb Laura Duhan Kaplan. Our aim, Reb Laura told us on the first morning, was to examine the question of the dike of theos — is God just? (And if not, what will we do about it?) The course was designed to spark both intellectual and intuitive responses to those questions, drawing on the wide range of answers offered by Jewish tradition.”
FaithInSociety has some thoughts for those who might be tempted to blog.
The Religious Left has a very interesting (and illustrated) post on Bishop Gene Robinson’s Sermon on the Good Samaritan.
Catalyst writing on the rewriting of history in the WaPo editorial pages.
And finally, Faithful Ohio receives the “defending the little bloggers” award for helping out DailyKos as they recover from the BillO attacks.