self-identity #5

Posted by Quixie at 11:56 AM

In a previous post I highlighted the contemporary "Jews for Jesus" practice of interpreting the Hebrew scriptures through Christia...

pésame . . .

Posted by Quixie at 8:56 AM

Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez (1933-2009) .

through a glass slyly . . .

Posted by Quixie at 11:02 AM

Religious self-identity #4 I remember hearing the phrase “ Jews for Jesus ” long before I actually met my first one. She handed me one of t...

John Milton on Samson?

Posted by Quixie at 9:10 AM

Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver; Ask for this deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with sla...

Kung on Ratzinger...

Posted by Quixie at 8:31 AM

I recommend this article , in which Hans Kung compares the Statesian* precidency to the contemporaneous papal See. In what is sure to infuri...

Marcus Borg on the new atheism ...

Posted by Quixie at 11:49 PM

Marcus Borg spoke in Phoenix earlier tonight (the 29th) at the Church of the Beatitudes on 7th Ave and Glendale. This was a very well-att...

Doubt and a sad eureka . . .

Posted by Quixie at 9:09 AM

. I watched the film Doubt last night. The official synopsis: "Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspec...

transplant thread (mythicism) . . .

Posted by Quixie at 9:40 AM

This post started out as a response to a post in Answers in Genesis Busted . It got too long for a comment and I didn't want to clutter ...

self-identity surveys . . .

Posted by Quixie at 12:40 PM

That a continuity between Judaism and Christianity can be historically traced to some degree is an appropriate, valid assumption to make, gi...

on religious self-identity #2 ...

Posted by Quixie at 9:06 PM

I've been reading, trying to wrestle with questions that deal with the religious self-identity of Jews and early Christians in the firs...

To the Distant One

Posted by Quixie at 10:41 AM

I try to forget, but it is in vain. I try to go, but I have no way. There are no wings on my axles, My head is covered by white hairs. I sit...

religious self-identity . . .

Posted by Quixie at 6:22 PM

What determines whether someone is part of one particular religious tradition as opposed to another? What does it mean to be “Jewish” for in...

dancing on Inauguration Day . . .

Posted by Quixie at 9:14 PM

Today was the Jones/Gogh ninth cycle sextet clinic. I thought we would do something bluesy . . . gospely . But When I got there, I got the ...

ding, dong. . . the witch is dead . . .

Posted by Quixie at 7:24 PM

Leaflet pasted on to a wall in San Francisco's Chinatown district in June of 2008. Onward! Ó .

discovering Heschel . . .

Posted by Quixie at 2:12 PM

Recent listening: Bill Laswell — Baselines Bill Laswell — Hear No Evil Caetano Veloso — Fina Estampa Djivan Gasparyan — Duduk Music from...