No reason. Just funny.
Cats.
Yep. Still hilarious.
No reason. Just funny.
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Two Questions about Marriage and the Civil Law | Called to Communion -
Please take the time to read this article. It is worth it.
I’ve been very hesitant to bring the conversation of same-sex ‘marriage’ into my web space. It is a thicket of nuance and difficult anthropological/ societal questions and it is volcanic ground for emotional reaction. However, I think it’s an important and timely conversation that our society is having. I have deep hope that Church will see this as an opportunity to re-imagine her pastoral approach to the LGBT community. I also have hope against hope that our society will discover a stronger understanding of marriage as an essentially pro-creative union, unique not only because of the type of emotional connection between two persons but inseparable from openness and potential for new life. In fact, I think that the deepest dammage that marriage may be facing in our time, is that very redefinition- the orientation towards the desire and satisfaction of two persons (this redefinition is and has been happening for some time separately from the same-sex ‘marriage’ conversation).
I have seen much strong and vocal support for a re-definition of marriage to include same-sex unions within my online community and after reading the article above- which answered some (but not all) of the questions I have had about my own position on the issue, I felt that I ought to place this point-of-view into the social sphere. Not as a talking point, but as a beginning point for conversation. The article pre-supposes the reader is Christian but does not base it’s considerations on revelation or Scripture. If you are not Christian, please try to read this as a way of deeper understanding the church’s desires and commitments.
Any of you whom I know personally are welcome to challenge me, question me and converse with me in a charitable, level-headed way. I promise the same in return. As this article says, our goal of coming to agreement may be unreachable, but another goal is mutual respect, deeper understanding of one another and the encouragement of desire for common good. This goal is attainable.
I hope that the conversation doesn’t happen online. But I do hope that it happens.
Dan Savage Was Right | First Things -
He rejected the Bible as “bullshit” in a keynote address to high-school journalists, and then described students who chose to walk away as “pansy-assed.” … His hypocrisy is painfully evident.
And yet, in the rush to (rightly) condemn, conservative responses have often overlooked the fact that Savage was on to something.
A must read.
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“I don’t give a damn
For the same old played out scenes
I don’t give a damn
For just the in betweens
Honey, I want the heart, I want the soul
I want control right now”
— Darkness on the Edge of Town - The Official Bruce Springsteen Website
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” — The 20 Greatest Maurice Sendak Quotes