I'm not able, I'm just Cain
A big round-up of links this week...
My college library has launched its nice new website, with some cool features, including regular news and updates about new theology books (e.g. a feature on the library's 1599 Geneva Bible, and a feature on Australian mission in Korea). The library has also started its own online review: e-Theo: Book Reviews for Mind and Ministry.- What religion should you follow? Here's a handy flowchart to help you decide
- In praise of Bob Dylan's new Christmas album. (I would buy an album of Bob Dylan breathing heavily – so why not a Christmas album too?)
- The power of religion in the public square
- Some visceral responses to "analytic theology". This is a comment on Oliver Crisp's new edited collection, Analytic Theology, which I'm reading at the moment – together with his new book on christology, God Incarnate.
- In New Zealand, there is a new indigenous confession of faith
- Stop calling it a "community of faith", start calling it "church". (I say: Amen!)
- A very informative post about the new German postmodern Christianity
- A forthcoming book event on Goodchild's Theology of Money. (Confession: I still haven't gotten around to reading this one.)
- And a blogged book discussion too: I reckon this is a great idea. Should we do something like this at F&T some time?
- God said it. I interpreted it. That doesn't exactly settle it.
- Reading Bonhoeffer is good for your soul
- Evangelicals and Catholics Together with a statement on Mary
- (Not all) Evangelicals and Catholics together
- Evangelical universalism: a postscript by Kim
- Jaroslav Pelikan audio lecture on the need for creeds
- Paul Griffiths: why it would be better for the church to live under an Islamic state than under liberal democracy
- Tom Wright invites Pope Benedict
- Tragedy and comedy: a review of Milbank and Žižek
- The full transcript of an interview with Žižek
- Hans Küng on the Vatican's recent ecumenical skullduggery
- A video of James Cone, on "success" in the black church
- James K. A. Smith on the tyranny of email
- Call for papers: mission and ecumenics
- And finally, I leave you with a link to what may be the most fantabulously cool peer-reviewed journal in existence: GOLEM: Journal of Religion and Monsters. Looks like I've finally found a place to submit my essay on the theology of Tom Waits...
make it rain!
lol at Griffiths' post: I wonder if he would feel the same way if HIS driving privileges were at stake...
I just Cain't see what you're drivin at, Lord!
I brought you some fruit but your frown never thawed!
Instead you were Abel to smile at a board
of gristle and fat bits hacked off with a sword,
an' I just don't get it, Lord!
I just don't see why you had a good moan:
and told me I needed to reap what I'd sown.
You told me my heart was as hard as a stone,
and then you're surprised that I inwardly groan?
No, I just don't get your tone!
So my brother and me had a walk in the field,
had a good long chat to get things healed.
Is it my fault if he stumbled and keeled
and pitched on a rock so his skin all peeled?
No, it's just the luck fate dealed!
So why is it me who comes of the worst?
And why is it me who gets to be cursed?
You send me away: if I don't die of thirst
I'll be killed by some nomad who saw me first.
No, it's just your senseless outburst!
So I'll go and I'll live in the land of Nod,
and I'll try to grow seeds in the eastern sod.
Even there they will know I'm no ordinary bod,
for you marked me and made me unique - on my tod,
No, I just don't get it, God!
Yours in Christ - JOHN HARTLEY.
I am a huge Tom Waits fan, and I just love this passage:
"I'm not Able, I'm just Cain
Open up the heavens
Make it rain!"
Actually Tom Waits uses the Bible a lot in his songs:
"God tempers all the winds for the new shorn lambs
The devil knows the bible like the back of his hand"
If you find other passages, I would love to hear them.
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