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2014-07-11T11:41:40-04:00

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Marshall Massey on Borg and the Bible

Last updated on: July 11, 2014 at 11:41 am By Peter Bishop

Marshall Massey sent me (Peter) this email last December, in response to my post on Reading the Bible Again For the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally, by Marcus J. Borg, but I had just switched to a new email address so I didn’t find it until this week when I went back to sift through all the spam at my old account looking for something else. Hoping that late is better than never, I’m going to... Read more

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2008-04-04T09:41:00-04:00

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Meme: Passion Quilt

Last updated on: April 4, 2008 at 9:41 am By Cat Chapin-Bishop

Passion Quilt: Gotta Love the Books! Chas Clifton, author of Letter from Hardscrabble Creek, has tagged me with a teaching meme, focused on what is our passion as teachers. And partly because, when I sit in worship and ask what it is I am supposed to be doing, I often see the face of one or another particular students, and partly because I think that there are so many things out there that can leach away a teacher’s joy in... Read more

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2014-07-11T11:42:00-04:00

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The Presence in the Midst (Peter)

Last updated on: July 11, 2014 at 11:42 am By Peter Bishop

I’ve been reading Will Taber and Liz Opp talking about corporate vs. individual worship, and I’m seeing a few things a little more clearly as a result. I think I’m seeing (better) what I look like through other eyes, and I think I’m understanding (better) what the forces are that are “corrosive to community”—what the liberal problem is and how it relates to—but is not the same—as my problem. First of all, Will and Liz both talk about something that... Read more

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2008-03-29T13:28:00-04:00

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Telling the 900-pound Gorilla Where not to Sit

Last updated on: March 29, 2008 at 1:28 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

Having read the news at The Wild Hunt of Amazon’s heavy-handed bullying of small-house publishers, I had to do something. I know many of my readers will already have made the decision not to buy from Amazon, based on our support for small bookstores. I guess I’ve always figured that my book-buying budget was big enough to support an entire industry anyhow! But this latest move is too much for my conscience. I’m going cold turkey on Amazon, at least... Read more

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2008-03-25T14:48:00-04:00

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A Crack Runs Through It

Last updated on: March 25, 2008 at 2:48 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I’m sad now. I’m sad, but it’s more complex than that. I’m still at my school, and I just ran into a favorite student from years past, one who enlisted early in the National Guard. She’s just completed basic training, and she came back to say hello, wearing her uniform. I saw her, and my heart did a funny little hiccup thing, and I gave her a big hug. Had I realized before how small she is, how delicate? Standing... Read more

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2008-03-12T19:59:00-04:00

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Pride in my Daughter

Last updated on: March 12, 2008 at 7:59 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

So, this is yet another in a series of recent “shameless plug” blog posts. Yet once again, I can’t apologize. I’ve just read the most recent entry in my daughter’s blog, Brain Clutter, and I’m impressed (and proud). I mean, she’s smart, she’s artistic, she’s gifted and takes the art of photography seriously. All of those are reasons to feel that happy mama feeling. But it’s the quality of moral discernment in her writing, added to all the rest, that... Read more

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2014-07-11T11:42:22-04:00

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Journaling before meeting: Lost, evil, faith, and G*d (Peter)

Last updated on: July 11, 2014 at 11:42 am By Peter Bishop

Cat’s been watching the third season of Lost. I pop in once in a while to watch an episode or a scene, but it pisses me off too much to enjoy. Season one had that wonderful sense of mystery and awe, season two was about starting to solve the mystery, and it was only OK, but in season three there is very little going on except psychological torture. The things we don’t understand aren’t mystery; they’re dysfunction. I find myself... Read more

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2008-03-02T08:43:00-04:00

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Affluenza and a No-Cheating Book Meme

Last updated on: March 2, 2008 at 8:43 am By Cat Chapin-Bishop

This one has been making the rounds in both the Quaker and the Pagan world… Normally, I would place a meme on The Back Page–that being why I created it. But since Cosette of Pandora’s Bazaar not only tagged me, but named Quaker Pagan Reflections itself in her own Book Meme post, that would probably be cheating. And, in any case, the book that is immediately to hand is one I’ve got a few thoughts about worth the sharing. So,... Read more

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2008-02-23T07:55:00-04:00

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Gone Away

Last updated on: February 23, 2008 at 7:55 am By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I dreamed yesterday morning of the land where I grew up. The land where I grew up was not a family farm. We’re all allowed to romanticize a family farm. We see something admirable in families trying to maintain ties to the old homestead, when it’s a farm that’s been in the family for generations. But my home was not on an old home place, just a two acre plot of woodlot, lawn, and garden with a somewhat boxy two... Read more

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2008-02-21T18:13:00-04:00

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Marcus Borg, Quaker Bibliomancy, and the Meaning of Myth

Last updated on: February 21, 2008 at 6:13 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

So here I am, back reading more of Marcus Borg‘s Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but not Literally. I’m making a slow job of it–in part because Peter has had the book for a while. Partly, though, I just find Borg… thin. I may have to stop every two or three pages when I’m reading a meaty Quaker writer like Lloyd Lee Wilson, just to reboot my head after I hit my personal... Read more

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