Christianity and Terrance

[Doug Millison]

At 2:24 PM -0400 8/1/02, Terrance wrote:
>Thanks Doug.  Do I  hear the stones falling to the ground now or
>is that only the sinless earth rumbling?


Did I say something earth-shaking?


>I would stay away from drunks if I were you. You seem to have special
>place in the darkest part of heart for them.


I'll take that as a compliment.   Compassion is hard work, but somebody's
got to do it.



"Faith becomes the one wholly inflexible ground for
resistance to violence, precisely because it teaches
us how to face death - not in excited expectation of
reward, but in the sober letting-go of our fantasies
in the sure hope that a faithful God holds us firmly in
life and death alike. This is the hope that allows us
to recognise power for what it is and isn't: As what
is given us for the setting-free of each other, not
as the satisfying of our passion for control."
            - Rowan Williams, appointed the 104th
              Archbishop of Canterbury on July 23


Buy stock or beer?
If you had bought $1,000 worth of Nortel stock
one year ago, it would now be worth $49.
If you had bought $1,000 worth of beer one year
ago, drank all the beer, then traded in the cans
at a redemption center for the nickle deposit,
you would have $107.
Given the current conditions of the economy, my
advice is to drink beer and recycle.


I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme
lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is
transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can
be transmuted into a power that can move the world.
                         - Mahatma Gandhi

quoted in SojoMail 07.24.02
     http://www.sojo.net



"What ever did Sinners do, before there were those to tell them they were
sinning?"
"However blissful their Ignorance, why they suffer'd."
"Bollocks. They enjoy'd themselves," Dixon mutters."I wasthere. Another
expell'd from Paradise, another Lad upon the North Road, seeking his daily
Crumbs...."
(Mason & Dixon, p. 710)