Library Reference from Flying Further Blog

This fellow is on to good material. I like his blog.

Flying Farther Blog

Interesting blog.

RE School: http://www.multnomah.edu/

Further Link to Flying Futher Blog: Interruptive Church

Link to Flying Father Blog: Complicty

Walter Wink

Fragmented Notions: Progressive Christian Experience: From Walter Wink

Anthony Delbanco on 9/11

"I think Sept. 11 brought home to me and to a lot of people I know the fact of how fragile and contingent our lives are -- how you say goodbye to your spouse and children in the morning, and you can't blithely assume that they'll come back in the afternoon.

"I was mercifully spared from that experience. But my children all knew people who thought their parents or uncle or aunt or cousin [were] going to work that day just like any other day, and didn't come home. So everybody that afternoon had to start coming to terms with this face in a very direct and very, very personal way. ...

"I live on the other end of Manhattan Island from where it happened. But the smell, this acrid odor, was in the air for weeks after that morning. You got used to it, sort of. But then, every once in a while, you would realize that you were smelling, among other things, the odor of burning human flesh.

"And for many people, it was the flesh of people they knew. So one had to be really pretty locked into one's own little world not to think in a new way about what mattered in daily life. ... It became real, as it had been for many generations. But it hadn't been so real for our generation. ... "

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/faith/interviews/delbanco.html

David Foster Wallace

The suicide of David Foster Wallace stuns me.

http://www.charlierose.com/shows/1997/03/27/2/an-interview-with-david-foster-wallace

Comment posted this morning on the Chariles Rose site listed: Comment by Bruce on Sunday, Sep 14 at 04:20 AMDFW was an uncommonly gifted spirit. His engaged self-consciousness, his fractured internal narrative, keen intellect, warmth and humor spoke deeply to many. Perhaps his final footnote will not come as a complete surprise to kindred spirits. DFW appeared above all reasoned and self-aware. This makes the prospect of him planning the moment, selecting the rope, taking the hundreds of necessary little steps all the more terrible. His rational conclusion, or the expression of irreconcilable anguish? It’s hard to fathom DFW surrendering, rushing to certainty in a cloud of depression. I prefer to remember his quick smile, him soaring near the sun, riding post-modern thermals heavenward. You will be dearly missed my friend.

From Walter Wink

I cannot really be open to the call of God in a situation of oppression if the one thing I have excluded as an option is my own suffering and death. -Walter Wink

Sixty Years

August marked the 60th anniversary of the World Council of Churches.

Cemetery Grace Church, St. Francisville, Louisiana. Photo by Ted Morgan.