http://spacebetween.blogsome.com "ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta" - Dante, Inferno, XXI.139 Thu, 31 May 2012 16:44:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am no longer blogging here. Please check my new blog at: www.SpaceBetweenMyEars.com http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2011/03/18/the-big-move/ Hi reader(s). In the next week or so I will no longer be blogging at this address. I will move to www.spacebetweenmyears.com. I’m trying to figure out if there is a way to export this blog and its comments to Wordpress since there has been so much discussion that I ... http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2011/01/14/the-blog-will-be-moving/ I lament that the deplorable and evil attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that killed six people and injured several others has been cynically turned into an opportunity for political factions to renew their mudslinging. Human beings have a seemingly innate drive to seek understanding of the reasons for events. When ... http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2011/01/12/rhetoric-mental-illness-broken-worlds/ For the last post of the year, I offer my list of favorite things seen, heard, and read in 2010. The items on the list didn’t have to be released in 2010, I merely had to experience them for the first time this past year. There isn’t a 2009 list ... http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2010/12/31/year-endish-picks-2010/ At a recent class for ordination, one of our instructors described the symbolism behind what is found on many church altars and the description was news to me. Look at the front of many sanctuaries and you will see placed atop a table two candles and in between either a ... http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2010/12/23/doubt-in-advent/ This past Sunday, the Gospel reading in the Revised Common Lectionary brought us to the story when Joseph, Jesus’ adoptive father, receives news about Mary’s miraculous pregnancy. We read this in Matthew 1.18-25: Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been ... http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2010/12/20/joseph-character-and-surprise-a-reflection-on-matthew-118-25/ I have not always been comfortable with doubt, or even with exploring the notion of doubt. Granted, doubt is by its nature a discomfiting place to be. Earlier in my faith I viewed doubt as signifying weakness, a questionable character, or the beginnings of apostasy. I spent much of my ... http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2010/12/06/doubt-part-4-faith-in-the-right-thing/ I’m reading about this movement of Christians who have a surprising and fresh encounter with God. Because of their awakening to God’s desires, they find themselves drawn to make deeper commitments to Jesus. Unfortunately they find their churches to be fossilized institutions, lacking energy or passion and with bureaucracies ... http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2010/12/06/forms/ Like many people, I greatly enjoyed the video of the Opera Company of Philadelphia singing the “Hallelujah” chorus from Handel’s Messiah in Macy’s during the last weekend of October. Seeing that music performed outside its normal context of church sanctuaries or concert halls with the choirs either in robes or ... http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2010/11/29/point-counterpoint-on-the-hallelujah-chorus-at-macys-a-surprise-of-beauty-and-grace-or-further-commodification/ The Christian calendar begins a new year this Sunday with the start of Advent. I have always loved Advent and Christmas. I love the decorations no matter how simple or ornate. When my brother and I were children, my grandmother made us an Advent calendar with a Christmas tree and ... http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2010/11/23/the-wreath-or-preparing-for-advent/