New Oxford Notes: April 2002
When Old Tics Die Hard (Part II)
The Dutch Reformed Church repudiates the Calvinist understanding of predestination/election.
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The Secret Weapon in the War on Terrorism: Priestesses!
"Dualistic (and sexist) thinking about masculine and feminine has led to a ruthlessly competitive marketplace."
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Apologize for Making "Hurtful" Remarks? No Way!
Given the current outcry that Christianity is unfair to women, how odd that they are its most devoted followers.
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Fire Alarms in the Night
Stratford Caldecott calls for a "new movement" that amounts to a New Ager-Catholic dialogue.
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Episcopal Fundamentalism In the Catholic Church
Let's face it. Many Catholic bishops today don't want interference from the Holy See.
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Review of Letters on the Sufi Path by Ibn Abbad of Ronda, Eight Lives by Rajmohan Gandhi, and Lost in the Crowd by Jalal Al-e Ahmad
Violence and suffering are to be met not with some vague feeling of compassion, but with the "unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith."
The diocesan psychologist requested that I draw a picture of a man, which I did -- wearing a cassock. Then she drew her own picture of a man -- hanging.