tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post3444697173015468706..comments2024-03-25T13:40:30.747-04:00Comments on Faith and Theology: Hot diggidy doodlingsBen Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-85805546734002635072015-11-17T11:58:55.006-05:002015-11-17T11:58:55.006-05:00These have made me late to my next meeting. Thank ...These have made me late to my next meeting. Thank you!Alan Knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-40273671768861220372015-11-17T11:23:56.155-05:002015-11-17T11:23:56.155-05:00Of course, it's just as easy to bash the Left,...Of course, it's just as easy to bash the Left, to dehumanize them and ridicule them as foolish. I've read and admired Etty Hillesum, as well. The struggle to show compassion and live with courage and humor transcends ideological attachments. As if no one could possibly read poetry and love art, tell a decent joke, have a feel for complexity and paradox, or the perplexity of living in this fallen world -- and also be an American or vote Republican . . . as if the only intellectual possibilities were to be a gun-toting, Tea Party Cowboy fan or a sensitive, liberal intellectual.briannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-41223523534341597302015-11-16T01:30:43.513-05:002015-11-16T01:30:43.513-05:00Sorry, Bruce. I blame Wiktionary, which informed m...Sorry, Bruce. I blame Wiktionary, which informed me that while "drongo" is Australian in origin -- "From an Australian racehorse named <i>Drongo</i>, apparently after the bird (specifically, after the spangled drongo,<i>Dicrurus bracteatus</i>) -- it is used by New Zealanders too. But evidently not! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15489409381009363165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-52775939758801447192015-11-15T18:32:03.840-05:002015-11-15T18:32:03.840-05:00"drongo", what's that. I think I bet..."drongo", what's that. I think I better ask an Australian (Bruce Hamill, New Zealand)Bruce Hamillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17681070634717394661noreply@blogger.com