Comments on: Reading in the Rain

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:38:28 +0000

To their credit, the United Church of Christ seems to be making inroads with their "open door" policies. I was still floored by the 91% figure quoted above.

I'll check out that book you plugged. If you take a notion, my views on this Christ vs Christianity may be skimmed over here:

http://ethmar.com/ethan/articles/2007/07/13/dif...

Thanks!

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:38:28 +0000

By: Joel Sax

Joel Sax — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:33:37 +0000

Sounds like a good book to me. Agnostic though I am, I applaud any measure by Christians to clean up their act. The whole homosexual issue is a classic example of people reading their own prejudices into the Bible rather than struggling to be the saints that the New Testament calls on them to be. All too often George Bernard Shaw is right: “Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.” I applaud your thinking about what it truly means to follow the way of Christ.

By: Karoli

Karoli — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:55:35 +0000

Liz, that was a great link. I've bookmarked that and will come back to it. Thank you.

I know I haven't really talked much here about being Christian, and I realized that's because I didn't want to be associated with the perception of what most think Christians are. But I do plan to talk more about the principles in this book and why it's so important that Christians start behaving the way they're supposed to instead of the way they are, because if I continue to remain silent, I'm just enabling the shrill whine to continue with no counterpoint.

By: Liz Ditz

Liz Ditz — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:08:54 +0000

I would have spun on my heel & walked out. Politics do not belong in the church.

As far as the theology of homosexuality, you may wish to share this:

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/12/19/1166

"What's Morally Wrong with Homosexuality"

I already knew that John Corvino was really onto something with his latest DVD offering. That title — “What’s Morally Wrong With Homosexuality?” — challenges us to confront one of our most glaring problems in the debates over homosexuality today. It’s the idea that the word “morality” is automatically associated with anti-gay positions. In fact, in today’s cultural debates, all one has to do us utter the words “moral” or “morality,” and right away he has signaled that that every word that follows will be hostile to gays and lesbians.