MEMBER BLOG TAG: public schools
| Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:24PM | | | | Voyeuring Up | Tags: Prayer, public schools, Christianity, Quakers, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos
| | | | Matthew 6:1-8
Jesus was pretty clear: don’t pray to be seen, don’t do good works to be seen, charity should be secret, and God will openly reward you. Well, maybe God will. But God’s rewards have a tendency to be delayed in shipping.
Jesus’ followers have a hard time believing Jesus meant what he said. Criminal suspects lawyer up. Religious suspects voyeur up. We want spectators, crowds gaping at us in wonder and admiration. We pray for paparazzi to catch images of us doing good things. We want to be heard when we pray. We announce with pride and satisfaction that we are doing these good deeds in the name of our church. We don’t have time to wait for God to reward us; let the... | | | | | | | Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:21PM | | | | Banned Books | Tags: banned books, public schools, education, Supreme Court
| | | | I read recently a list of titles of children's books and young adult books that had been banned, and I wonder what country I'm living in. Gay penguins are too dangerous to read about? Books that contain words that in a different context would be harmful but between their covers give me the power to understand where racism came from historically?
I remember rather fondly reading all sorts of wondrously devious and perhaps deviant books and short stories when I was in elementary school in the 70s and junior high in the 1980s. What would have become of me if I hadn't been allowed to read these books? Is sexual content so dangerous in the age of AIDS that... | | | | | |
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