‘If you don’t take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits’
Under Germany’s welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit
Sometimes I wonder if I’m too wary of governmental involvement in things. This gives much credence to my skepticality (nice word, I know)
And in today’s not surprising news department comes news of another upstanding social incident by a member of the U of M Basketball Team.
Yet another article about everyone’s favorite Progressive Christian/Religous Left commentator, Jim Wallis. I think, on some things, I agree with him but everything is couched so carefully and cautiously as to not offend that it’s quite difficult to determine what he believes.
He also expresses leeriness at applying “left” and “right” to “religious”
“Left” is a political term, and I don’t think religion fits neatly in the political category. The religious right is not critical enough of the political right and the Republican Party, and likewise people who are more progressive need to be very critical of—when need be—the left and the Democratic party. Religion shouldn’t be ideologically predictable, nor loyally partisan. It should have the capacity to critique both sides. I like the word “prophetic” best of all. “Progressive” is OK, but it still sounds kind of like a substitute for “liberal.”
I agree, progressive is intended as a substitute for liberal. But “prophetic”, you’re getting a little ahead of yourself Mr. Wallis. Be very, very careful about labeling anything prophetic, for prophets speak for God and I definitely wouldn’t want to set myself up as speaking for God. Hopefully, I allow Him to speak through me
Unfortunately, the article closes with an retreat back to the same old tired statements.
about a whole progressive faith movement that is growing and coming together and having more public face and public voice, and will join in serious debate, serious dialogue with the religious right.
Ok, you don’t like progressive. And you don’t like the term “religious left”, but it’s okay to refer to the religious right? Why don’t we just stop defining our faith in political terms and treat our brothers and sisters in Christ with the love that Christ commands from us.
Opened the box
Came with real manuals, which are quite tiny
Came with quick reference cards, which list keyboard shortcuts and
Has a serial number. This is new, and not very welcome
Installs just like other Apple-created OS X app
Hard to give much reference on either program as I probably won’t use them much.
I just find it so amusing that Rolling Stone rejected a Zondervan ad about the upcoming release of the TNIV, given that Rolling Stone is neither hip nor cutting edge any more.
Even better is the fact that Blender called Zondervan and offered to run the ad. I bet Zondervan never dreamed this would get so much pub. Much, much more than it would get running regularly in RS
On a similar note, everything is progressing for heading down to FL for FutureGen. I’m pretty excited to see and hear what other churches are doing to reach the great masses of people disinterested and/or dissatisfied with today’s church and it’s inability to look past physicality and toward a Savior who calls us first to obedience, not comfort, convenience, or tolerance. I also dig the look of the look of the site. Quite similar to some of the iterations of nikesb.
Rolling Stone relented with the usual marketing speech
Lisa Dallos, a spokeswoman for Rolling Stone publisher Wenner Media LLC, said Tuesday that the company had “addressed the internal miscommunications that led to the previous misstatement of company policy and apologize for any confusion it may have caused.”
Sure hope this is a successful campaign for Zondervan.
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Now, this article is in the context of Homosexuality And The American Religion, but it’s an interesting discussion of whether we as Americans have perverted our faith to be too much about ME and not enough about WE
“Many students appeared to make a distinction between their music-the music they liked to listen to in their free time-and the music they encountered and accepted as part of other times and places in their lives, such as the church service.”
Interesting article concerning what students think about appropriate church worship. Maybe they’re not too different from anyone else. Perhaps that is what our focus should be–not trying to recreate the world, using the trappings of this age to entice kids to come and bring friends. It should be a sanctuary, where the uniqueness of our call to worship only God is recognized and reinforced.
The whole article is here – Yours, Mine, or Ours: Teenager’s Perceptions of Church Music
I hated Acrobat 6 for it’s slowness and it’s horrendous bookmark organization system. I just received and installed Acrobat 7 today. It’s fast and actually does bookmarks like Acrobat 5. The Browser plug-in is “nice” but I’ll always have it turned off. It’s just too bad the Life Cycle Designer is only for Windows
I have incredible respect for people dedicated to Christ and willing to rail against the consumeristic, market-driven society that we live in. Tony Campolo is one of those people. He spoke once while I was at Wheaton and his passion and fervor blew me away, as well as his total and complete dedication to the life that Christ had called him to live.
However, I get a little skittish when I read articles like this one. The phrase “sometimes you have to transcend tradition” is applied to the Biblical discussions of homosexuality and it gives me some pause. In my reading of the Bible, it seems pretty clear that God’s intended plan for creation is single monogamy or sex within the context of male/female marriage. Anything we do outside of that subverts, degrades, and denies God’s work in and through us. However, this is a tough issue and one that is causing significant problems in many mainline churches. The media likes to portray “progressive” churches as being on the correct side of this issue. Well, call me regressive but I don’t believe we change the church to fit us, we change ourselves to fit our worship and service together as the church, the bride of Christ.