Once again Mia I left Windycon about 9AM Sunday morning to worship at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston. The church is be doing well. Unlike last year, there was no outside crisis to threaten it. The Rector was absent that Sunday, but another priest presided.
Maybe. See Outing Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Do I care? No. I still consider him “a Christian hero, a Protestant saint.”
Still, there is a bit more to the meaning of ‘fundamentalist’ (in this widely current use): it isn’t simply a term of abuse. In addition to its emotive force, it does have some cognitive content, and ordinarily denotes relatively conservative theological views. That makes it more like ‘stupid sumbitch’ (or maybe ‘fascist sumbitch’?) than ‘sumbitch’ simpliciter. Continue reading
At Physics World:
A settlement has been reached in a case brought against the University of Kentucky by astrophysicist Martin Gaskell over his claim that the university illegally denied him a staff position on the basis of his evangelical Christian faith. The settlement now requires the university to pay $125,000 to Gaskell and his lawyers, who claimed that the decision meant Gaskell lost income and caused him “emotional distress”. The university admits no wrongdoing in the case, which was due to go to trial on 8 February. Meanwhile, Gaskell has taken a job at Chile’s University of Valparaiso, which he will start in March.
Following up on the Gaskell affair.
At the Episcopal Café
Respond in the comments. Your answers should cite Augustine, Schleiermacher (yeah, I had to look up the spelling) or Annie Savoy. Heretical assertions (e. g. “God doesn’t care who wins the World Series) will result in disqualification.
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“We need to put Herod back into Christmas.” — The Rev. Rex McKee.
