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random jottings

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More color, cultural diversity and dance - thank you to #2015Parliament @interfaithworld

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Mandala at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Salt Lake City

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NGC 5128: Centaurus A

Credit: ESO

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‘Christian’ is the greatest of all possible nouns and lamest of all possible adjectives.

 – Greg Thornbury, President of The King’s College

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Mount Rainier, Washington, US (by Ryan Dyar)

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Ojai Valley School

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San Francisco Bay | California (by Sarah Fina)

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But claiming the Bible speaks with one voice is dishonest and devalues the importance of diversity in the witness of God’s people. - Zack Hunt See more at: http://theamericanjesus.net/?p=12025#sthash.FLFx2BXt.dpuf

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Atone with the eScapegoat

The eScapegoat is roaming the Internet collecting sins before Yom Kippur.

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...one generation's absolutism perverts a misremembered prior generation's considered relativism.

James Carroll, _Constantine's_Sword_, p. 241.

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(by WorldofArun)

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NAIN Connect August 11-14, 2013

http://www.nain.org

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Even if you’re the only Christian eating popcorn with a homeless man while your fellow believers sing songs and socialize upstairs, if you invite them, there are Jews, Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, Jains, and Buddhists who will join you. And the funny thing is that authentic dialogue begins to happen in these sorts of situations – you build relationships and you share stories, simply because you all agree that no one should have to eat popcorn alone in the cold.

Greg Damhorst

http://sojo.net/blogs/2013/07/24/when-doing-christian-thing-isnt-right-thing

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[O]ut of respect for the difference of one another’s faith . . . we do not pray together, but we gather to pray in one another’s presence, as respectful observers of one another’s spiritual heritage.

Guidelines for an interreligious celebration of religious liberty in Arlington, VA. See blog post:

http://interfaithspace.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/praying-together-yes-no-or-maybe/

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In a raid in the desert outside Jerusalem against Israel’s enemy the Amalekites, God had told Saul to fully destroy this enemy along with all their possessions. Instead, Saul spared King Agag and kept some of the choice sheep and oxen. He disobeyed God’s command. When the Prophet Samuel arrived and saw the evidence of Saul's clear disobedience, he pronounced God’s judgment. “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. ... Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king” (1 Samuel 15:22–23, ESV). Think about it--partial obedience is really no obedience at all. Complete obedience is what the Lord desires. We must never back down from fully following Christ because we fear public opinion or the ridicule of others.

-Franklin Graham

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/39716-is-our-nation-intolerant-of-christianity

Yep. Obedience to God means killing everybody. Who's the terrorist now?