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Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Of the cruelty of one Hasbrouck. - He had a sick slave-woman, who was lingering with a slow consumption, whom he made to spin, regardless of her weakness and suffering; and this woman had a child, that was unable to walk or talk, at the age of five years, neither could it cry like other […]
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth: Finding a brother and a sister
Monday, March 26th, 2007
While Isabella [LG: Sojourner Truth, before she renamed herself] was in New York, her sister Sophia came from Newberg to reside in the former place. Isabel had been favored with occasional interviews with this sister, although at one time she lost sight of her for the space of seventeen years - almost the entire […]
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
A couple of things that caught my eye in the introduction to this book, by Margaret Washington, on slavery in New York. Sojourner Truth (born Isabella) was a slave in New York state; slavery there was ended by legislative act in 1827, though Sojourner Truth freed herself a year before that by walking away […]
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Though the diverse liveries they wear here makes them strangers
Monday, March 5th, 2007
The humble, meek, merciful, just, pious, and devout souls are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here makes them strangers. This world is a form; our bodies are forms; and no visible acts of devotion can be […]
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Quotes from Dreams from My Father
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
While I wait to get around to actually reviewing this book, I think I’ll follow Eve’s example in book blogging, and post a couple of quotes.
Obama on his father’s visit back to the US, when Obama is in middle school:
Over lunch, I explained to a group of boys that my father was a prince.
“My grandfather, […]
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An anecdote about Arthur Miller
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
Joel read me this one, from his book Broadway Anecdotes:
Arthur Miller Meets a Salesman
Playwright Arthur Miller was once sitting in a bar, when a well-dressed and slightly tipsy man came up to him:
“Aren’t you Arthur Miller?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Don’t you remember me?”
Miller couldn’t quite place him.
“Art, it’s me - Sam! I’m your old buddy from […]
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From The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
Monday, September 25th, 2006
No man ever resolved more bravely than he to accept as good nothing that was evil; to banish from him as evil nothing that was good. ‘Tis a pity that he should not have recognised the fact, that in this world no good is unalloyed, and that there is but little evil that has […]
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Quote from Luke Timothy Johnson’s The Real Jesus
Saturday, August 5th, 2006
I was going to review this book, but I see that I have to return it to the library today, so I think I’ll skip the extended review. Its full title is The Real Jesus:The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels, and most of it is, as […]
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Mary Penington on Prayer
Thursday, July 27th, 2006
One day as I was sitting at work in the parlor, one called a gentleman (who was against the superstition of the times) came in and looked sadly, said, “it was a sad day: that Prynne, Bastwick and Burton, were sentenced to have their ears cut, and to be banished.” This news sunk deep […]
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Madame Butterfly and the locks
Monday, July 24th, 2006
From the short story on which the Madame Butterfly opera was based:
Some clever Japanese artisans then made the paper walls of the pretty house eye-proof, and, with their own adaptions of American hardware, the openings cunningly lockable. The rest was Japanese.
Mme Butterfly laughed, and asked him why he had gone to all that trouble […]
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Elizabeth Schuessler Fiorenza on different approaches to interpreting the Bible
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Two quotes, from Bread Not Stone. First quote:
The preacher, on the other hand, is torn between the task of liturgical preaching and the approach of contemporary biblical scholarship, which insists that a text be understood in its wider context. The growing number of commentaries on the lectionary attempt to overcome this dilemma by […]
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So I stole one
Sunday, November 6th, 2005
The Feminarian has a quote post. I’m stealing one of her quotes:
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” - Balmeet Singh (USC Sikh Student Association)
She also […]
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Stealing a quote from Japanabaptist
Friday, October 21st, 2005
Japanabaptist has a quote from N.T. Wright about the authority of the Bible which I like so much that I am going to steal it.
Most heirs of the Reformation, not least Evangelicals, take it for granted that we are to give scripture the primary place and that everything else has to be lined up in […]
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A quote from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Monday, September 19th, 2005
Today’s quote has nothing to do with pirates, but I like it anyway.
Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees takes off his shoes,
The rest sit around and pluck blackberries.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Hitler Youth
Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
Eric Muller: Resistance Was Possible, Even For Young People. And Alan Allport of History News Network replies by questioning the examples of resistance Muller cites.
With this in mind, Kater’s HJ ‘resisters’ are an eclectic and not particularly coherent mix, and their (mostly rather trivial) acts of protest seem motivated more by adolescent bloody-mindedness than […]
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Spiritual and Temporal Power
Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
First, if pressed by the temporal power, they have affirmed and maintained that the temporal power has no jurisdiction over them, but on the contrary, that the spiritual power is above the temporal.
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There has been a fiction by which the Pope, bishops, priests, and monks are called the ’spiritual estate’; princes, lords, artisans, and peasants […]
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Why traffic mysteriously slows down and speeds up again, for no apparent reason
Tuesday, July 6th, 2004
Have you seen the cartoon, which shows a roadmap, and at a certain point on the map is the label “traffic mysteriously slows down and speeds up again, for no apparent reason”?
Well, I am finally sitting down and reading the traffic theory book my father gave me last year (his own traffic theory book), and […]
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A quote from a Brethren sister
Monday, May 17th, 2004
God does not have a hierarchy of sins with one being worse than others. So instead of accepting this, we pick a sin we personally do not indulge in and spend a lot of time bombarding that sin and the people involved in it with our righteous indignation.
Wanda L. Callahan, Straight Talk From a […]
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Emma Goldman speaks on modern drama
Sunday, January 11th, 2004
The authorities of New York had always been stupid in their methods of persecuting anarchists; but never had their folly been quite so great as when they swept down on Lexington Hall on the third Sunday of my lecture course. The seditious subject on that occasion was “Henrik Ibsen as the Pioneer of Modern […]
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When my children cry because they are hungry
Tuesday, January 6th, 2004
From Emma Goldman’s autobiography, _Living My Life (here describing events during the 1890s in the US)
Still more impressed was I by the fierce, blind struggle of the women of the poor against frequent pregnancies. Most of them lived in continual dread of conception; the great mass of the married women submitted helplessly, and when […]
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Big Foot: It’s a Guy Thing
Saturday, December 13th, 2003
Joel picked up a copy of one of his favorite magazines, Skeptic, and showed me this, laughing furiously (excerpted from an article by Michael Shermer entitled “Why Smart People Believe Weird Things”):
… With the surge of popularity of psychic mediums like John Edward, James Van Praagh, and Sylvia Browne, it has become obvious to observers, […]
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