tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post2579921402390390757..comments2024-02-21T03:20:21.898-08:00Comments on An Inch At A Time: Reflections on the Journey: These are a few of my favorite ...SUSAN RUSSELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795717638621668638noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-55152611083386160252009-06-24T22:35:02.817-07:002009-06-24T22:35:02.817-07:00Here's another couple of certainties for you:
...Here's another couple of certainties for you:<br /><br />Humility that is certain of it's righteousness, is a false humility. <br /><br />Arrogance sees arrogance in others' certainty. <br /><br />Tolerance of evil - particularly for the sake of being seen as a "good guy" - is to cooperate with evil.MarkBrunsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16971990948866488080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-66898411431877189782009-06-18T06:56:06.562-07:002009-06-18T06:56:06.562-07:00One thing I am fairly certain about: arrogant cons...One thing I am fairly certain about: arrogant conservatives and arrogant liberals are... arrogant.WilliamKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14545955266846478775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-33832649956030658882009-06-17T21:10:58.027-07:002009-06-17T21:10:58.027-07:00It must be nice to know with such certainty who ha...<i>It must be nice to know with such certainty who has a valid point and who doesn't.</i><br /><br />It is.<br /><br />A lot of it comes from the realization that you <i>can</i> keep your mind too open and your brain'll fall slap out!MarkBrunsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16971990948866488080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-13922094077848544212009-06-17T06:25:17.392-07:002009-06-17T06:25:17.392-07:00If you keep arguing with Fyffe and Marshall you ar...<i>If you keep arguing with Fyffe and Marshall you are simply prolonging the fallacy that they have a valid point. That's doing no service to them.</i><br /><br />It must be nice to know with such certainty who has a valid point and who doesn't.<br /><br />I'm afraid I don't have such certainty....WilliamKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14545955266846478775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-21408800826929448972009-06-16T20:50:25.434-07:002009-06-16T20:50:25.434-07:00If you keep arguing with Fyffe and Marshall you ar...If you keep arguing with Fyffe and Marshall you are simply prolonging the fallacy that they have a valid point. That's doing no service to them.MarkBrunsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16971990948866488080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-3580367179917306742009-06-16T17:23:32.487-07:002009-06-16T17:23:32.487-07:00"God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Sp..."God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit" -- sounds Paternal to me. And I believe there is a GOOD reason for God to present Himself in the way He has chosen to.<br /><br />Do I know what that reason is?? No, I don't.<br /><br />... but I'm willing to set aside my feminist upbringing and accept the reality of what is.<br /><br />There is something different about LOVE LGMarshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04902418111182358582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-1645814537653113352009-06-16T08:38:11.232-07:002009-06-16T08:38:11.232-07:00P.S. ....
St. Anselm was inspired by this verse o...P.S. ....<br /><br />St. Anselm was inspired by this verse of Scripture in his prayer that I quoted:<br /><br />"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing" (Matt 23:37)<br /><br />The Bible's God-metaphors are rich and WilliamKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14545955266846478775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-30904738020003007552009-06-16T08:32:09.557-07:002009-06-16T08:32:09.557-07:00Brian F wrote:
...just because other saints in the...Brian F wrote:<br /><i>...just because other saints in the past have referred to God as "Her" or Jesus as "Mother" in the past does not make them right in doing so, or make us right in following them, <b>if it has no Biblical support.</b></i> <br /><br />Okay; "Biblical support":<br /><br />"...and God's Spirit hovered/brooded over the face of the waters&WilliamKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14545955266846478775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-29104907273274697282009-06-14T20:37:10.231-07:002009-06-14T20:37:10.231-07:00"... God when he has chosen to reveal himself..."... God when he has chosen to reveal himself to us in the masculine - not because he is a man, but because that is what he has done."<br /><br />Really? And the fact that only men had the power to control the language and how the story of that reveleation was recorded didn't have any influence at all?<br /><br />My, My, My!<br /><br />Take two Phyllis Tribles and one Rosemary SUSAN RUSSELLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01795717638621668638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-42834518643319018272009-06-14T20:17:28.781-07:002009-06-14T20:17:28.781-07:00WilliamK - just because other saints in the past h...WilliamK - just because other saints in the past have referred to God as "Her" or Jesus as "Mother" in the past does not make them right in doing so, or make us right in following them, if it has no Biblical support. There are and have been many things in the church's tradition which have erroneously crept into the church against Biblical revelation, and need to be weeded Brian Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06938619697698149146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-48900356589135901202009-06-13T18:41:44.688-07:002009-06-13T18:41:44.688-07:00Father Brian (F),
I believe you misunderstood the ...Father Brian (F),<br />I believe you misunderstood the point I was making in my post. I was pointing out that Mother Susan's use of a femine pronoun to refer to God,and PB Jefferts Schori's reference to "Mother Jesus," are <i>not</i> modern "politically correct" innovations; rather, they draw on and reflect deep and authentic sources in our tradition.<br /><br />I wasWilliamKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14545955266846478775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-68869743796485665592009-06-13T13:31:52.290-07:002009-06-13T13:31:52.290-07:00I doubt if PB Schori refers to God as “Her” just t...I doubt if PB Schori refers to God as “Her” just to stir up offence among the brethren. I suspect she is trying to remind us of the all-encompassing nature of the God who created and loves us all.<br /><br />Conservatives believe that women should not be priests because none of the apostles were women. Nor were any of the apostles Irish<br /><br />BrianF, could you tell us about the day when you uffda51https://www.blogger.com/profile/11395027089123943228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-16772273887541163242009-06-13T01:55:50.575-07:002009-06-13T01:55:50.575-07:00Thankyou Brian R for that attempted exposure of me...Thankyou Brian R for that attempted exposure of me on Susan's blog. I would appreciate if you had contacted me prior to making erroneous allegations against me. If you had, you would have learned that I regularly have women reading the bible in our services, and leading us in intercessory prayer, and involved in a number of other ministries in the parish, which I highly value, and would Brian Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06938619697698149146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-18811446753474078692009-06-12T21:05:40.496-07:002009-06-12T21:05:40.496-07:00Brian F is a priest in the diocese of North West A...<i>Brian F is a priest in the diocese of North West Australia.</i><br /><br />And has an unhealthy need to meddle in TEC . . . in which he <b>still</b> has no say.<br /><br />It must gall him to <b>not</b> be able to put you in your place, Mother Susan.MarkBrunsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16971990948866488080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-233713272648573802009-06-12T16:38:44.489-07:002009-06-12T16:38:44.489-07:00Goodness me! Context may not be EVERYTHING, but it...Goodness me! Context may not be EVERYTHING, but it's certainly on the list!<br /><br />Thanks for the "back story," Brian (R)!!!SUSAN RUSSELLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01795717638621668638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-49329139061487783292009-06-12T16:34:54.563-07:002009-06-12T16:34:54.563-07:00Brian F is a priest in the diocese of North West A...Brian F is a priest in the diocese of North West Australia. It is a huge diocese in area but only has 18 parishes. It is supported by the homophobic GAFCON diocese of Sydney and a large number of its priests (Not Brian F) were trained there.<br />Its Bishop David Mulready (originally from Sydney) said in an interview.<br />"Women are prohibited from leadership in the Anglican Church, he saidBrian Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-55429292674305209332009-06-12T12:02:15.143-07:002009-06-12T12:02:15.143-07:00Could it be, Brian, that an ancient patriarchal so...Could it be, Brian, that an ancient patriarchal society created a god in its own image? Can the ground of all being be reduced to a pronoun? Can the peace that passes all understanding be reduced to pearly gates, streets of gold, and harp-playing angels?uffda51https://www.blogger.com/profile/11395027089123943228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-79939095798082513582009-06-12T10:42:38.691-07:002009-06-12T10:42:38.691-07:00Yet God in His infinite wisdom has chosen to revea...<i>Yet God in His infinite wisdom has chosen to reveal Himself to us using the masculine pronoun. Who are we to reassign Him to being her?</i><br /><br />Right, indeed! How dare Mother Susan refer to God using feminine terminology! Why, she's doing just like that arch-heretic, St. Augustine of Hippo, who wrote, "Deus mater est, quia fovet et nutrit et lactat et continet" (WilliamKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14545955266846478775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-4205113702254143582009-06-12T09:21:29.350-07:002009-06-12T09:21:29.350-07:00Brian ... Bless your heart. Today is actually my d...Brian ... Bless your heart. Today is actually my day off so I'm just going to acknowledge your taking time to post and then get on with my day. <br /><br />(She said, sipping her coffee from her "God Is Not A Boy's Name" coffee mug.)<br /><br />Suffice to say, since I don't buy the "in His infinite wisdom He revealed Himself" part, the rest of your argument doesn&#SUSAN RUSSELLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01795717638621668638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-44436845377231627522009-06-12T09:08:54.944-07:002009-06-12T09:08:54.944-07:00Dear Susan - if it doesn't bother you to disho...Dear Susan - if it doesn't bother you to dishonour God by refusing to refer to Him as He has revealed Himself to us in Scripture, then why do you get so precious about the way others might refer to you? Are you greater than God? And BTW, I never mentioned anything about testosterone, since I don't believe that the sex hormones of either gender are applicable to God. According to Gen 1:Brian Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06938619697698149146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-29216697721066157122009-06-11T21:42:45.892-07:002009-06-11T21:42:45.892-07:00Brian F ... the "nature of God" involves...Brian F ... the "nature of God" involves testosterone? Really? <br /><br />Wow ... the things you learn on blogs.<br /><br />As for the Mr. Russell, actually, it's Rev. Russell. Thanks for asking.SUSAN RUSSELLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01795717638621668638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-44524192768676745052009-06-11T21:38:33.793-07:002009-06-11T21:38:33.793-07:00LGMarshall - I believe also that there is a place ...LGMarshall - I believe also that there is a place for killing in warfare, if that war is well supported by the international community to preserve justice in the world and to defeat evil. We just need to be so cautious in how we define evil and to honestly assess how severe a risk it presents, while always acknowledging that evil always exists in this fallen world, before we embark into warfare. Brian Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06938619697698149146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-76775919861174173832009-06-11T20:23:04.167-07:002009-06-11T20:23:04.167-07:00Susan - Thank you for these! Dr. King's is one...Susan - Thank you for these! Dr. King's is one of my favorites as it remains so applicable and is a reminder the constant call of God to us to make justice a reality.<br /><br />I lifted three of them to add to my Facebook page. I believe Sr Joan's may be my favorite!Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429851939148676668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-26273745779340879462009-06-11T16:48:39.757-07:002009-06-11T16:48:39.757-07:00But Brian, why is it that so many conservatives re...But Brian, why is it that so many conservatives refuse to admit that dogma, or doctrine, or teaching, changes over time?<br /><br />Dogma changed after Paul, after Constantine, after Nicea, after Luther, after the American Revolution, after the Civil War, after Vatican II, and on and on. It will continue to do so.<br /><br />There is a direct line between the faithful and God. Sometimes, however,uffda51https://www.blogger.com/profile/11395027089123943228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-4858640978054037422009-06-11T10:57:38.476-07:002009-06-11T10:57:38.476-07:00Oh, come now Susan.
Everyone knows God spoke plai...Oh, come now Susan.<br /><br />Everyone knows God spoke plain English.<br /><br />;-)IThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09605163506396013904noreply@blogger.com