Tensegrities

I love reading TheSnakecharmer’sWife blog. I suppose in part because she has such a great “voice” and frequently captures the exasperating but joy-filled process of parenting. Today she has a post up which is ostensibly a set of reviews — but read to the end. And I say, AMEN.

Somehow I missed this, but apparently the USCCB issued a statement on “music in divine worship” late in November of last year. I don’t have time at the moment to comment, but wanted to post the link and will get back to it soon.

Walter Brueggemann on alternate scripts, including:

Only the church in its better days — and the synagogue and the mosque on their better days — is able to mediate irascible holiness, evoke consequent ambivalence, manage that ambivalence toward newness, and then wait.

Lately I’m having a hard time believing we’re in the church’s “better days,” and so I’m praying that the Spirit (and we ARE in Pentecost after all), will come down upon us!

Here is Scott Ritter’s clear statement of why we should not go to war with Iran.