“Is the body of Christ really and truly in this sacrament or only in a figurative way or as in a sign?” Thomas Aquinas, first article, question 75, Summa Theologica Transubstantiation: Theology, History, and Christian Unity, Brett Salkeld Salkeld will rephrase Thomas’s statement, in order to clarify: “Is the Eucharist only a sign, or is it also something more?” If it isn’t clear by that open, this post will focus on a very “inside Christian baseball” topic. My intent is not to draw us into a theological debate, but to understand something of one of the key theological divides between Protestants, represented by Luther … Continue reading →
Like the scratch, hip-hop aims to rupture the status quo. Hip-hop began as an expression of the dispossessed, an artistic form of opposition in impoverished neighborhoods. From the beginning, the genre refused to underwrite the sentimentalities of society. Rather than reinforcing existing cultural narratives, hip-hop artists subvert the familiar.
This flipping of the script can take a number of different forms. Unique spellings, semantic inversion, and community-specific language are small ways that hip-hop flips the script. On a broader level, hip-hop artists subvert the familiar as they rap about raw, real, and troubling topics that are often ignored in mass media.
Lischer: I still think of Holy Week as a refuge of sorts. When I was the pastor of a church, we canceled every meeting and set aside church business in Holy Week so that we could find time to be together a blessing we took for granted and concentrate on this one story. During Holy Week, church is a family telling its stories. After 50-plus years of marriage, I catch myself telling stories about my wife’s relatives whom I never met! I realize the notion of “our story” can become a cliché. But when we are gathered, when we are taking turns reading the Passion narrative dramatically, it really is our story. When the community’s leader says, “Our Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread,” suddenly we are there.
because if he could wipe out this man s life, what would hi do to me. after blasting away august meyer, starkweather got his car stuck in the mud outside of myers farm. while walking along the darkened highway, the two were spotted by two popular bennett teenagers, robert jenson and carol king. in a fateful decision, jenson offered them a ride. their bloody bodies were found the next day, jenson had been shot six times in the head. king once. her partially nude body had also been sexual low mutilated. yes. it s a terrible sight, i can close my eyes today and still see it, those two bodies down in the storm cellular, both of them shot to death and carol mutilated. carol ann fugate admits she
0 part of the 2004 and 2008 teams. she failed to medal in 2004 and was disillusioned by the life of an olympian. so after the 2004 olympics, you ran away from home, i understand? it pretty much came down to everything i did was dictated by someone else. so i ran away and got a job at a convenience store. while in upstate new york, rhonda still maintained a rigorous training regimen, but stayed away from the restrictive life of coaches and practices. i ended up moving to chicago for a while. i had no real coaches, no one was really coaching me. so i ended up having like one of the best years ever, i won the world cup and we haven t had an american woman do that in nine years and i was actually making a little bit of money. fortunately she had a change of heart and decided to give the olympics one more try. it went way better the second i felt like my feet were going to sleep. it progressed from there to burning like i was walking on hot coals. to like 1,000 bees that were ju