how can we receive the gifts history offers and use them to practice moral reflection, rather than judgement? Here’s the story we read as part of our celebration of an American Thanksgiving with church family and strangers from other shores.
Community & Time
History, sociology, anthropology, civics, politics -- how people, century after century, have learned to live with each other.
The First Thanksgiving: Eight Lessons for Learning from History
Putting together a coherent story from evidence is hard work. No wonder we reach for story first and evidence after, unless the discipline of History can teach us better habits!
A Thanksgiving Book Club
An invitation to read with me through The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God & Learning from History .
Why Hope Isn’t Always a Good Thing
Hope isn’t wishful thinking. It’s full of requirements.
Creation Groans
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Turning & turning – and do we now see /
Mere anarchy at last upon the world?
Veterans Never Stop Serving
Even after our veterans take off the uniform, they never stop serving. Many apply the skills and experience they developed on the battlefield to a life of service here at home. They take on roles in their communities as doctors and police officers, engineers and entrepreneurs, mothers and fathers.
Politics After the Apocalypse
If all the libraries in the world were destroyed and you could save only two books of political theory, which would they be?
Remebering Labor, Entering Rest
To truly make this a holiday, to truly rest in praise of the goodness, truth, & beauty of Labor Day, requires contemplation.
Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad
Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.
RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009
Links on culture, reading, and the web.
Exhilaration, Exhaustion, Tennyson
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur
Intermission Music
“I have to admit, it’s getting better…”