"To reach an agreement in a conflict ... you need more than justice: you have to be willing to embrace the other ... one needs to maintain the boundaries of the self, but also keep the boundaries porous."
Miroslav Volf: Exclusion and Embrace
Monday 27 September 2010
Monday 20 September 2010
Saturday 18 September 2010
Nope Pope
There is a controversy in deeply secular Britain around the papal visit as after some funny demonstrations thousands marched in central London yesterday in the biggest protest of his 5-year papacy.
Child abuse scandals around the world, labelling gay people "evil", telling Africans that condoms "increase the problem" of HIV, the church faces its deepest crisis in history.
Men in woman's dress with sinful secrets, their eyes turned on the sky with bad conscience, giving sermons while abusing young altar-boys in the sacristy, banning women out of their world - it is time for the church to open their stained glass windows and let in some fresh air.
Invite women to be priests and priests to marry, banish criminal priests - it may help the church to survive.
Tuesday 14 September 2010
Bébi 1994 - 2010
"...the limitations most of us encounter in our relations with other animals reflect not their shortcomings, as we so often assume, but our own narrow views about who they are and the kind of relationships we can have with them... So open your heart to the animals around you and find out for yourself what it's like to befriend a nonhuman person." J.M.Coetzee: The Lives of Animals
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