+ Please don't forget that your comments are welcome and I will insert your wisdom (and foolishness) here if you request it. This post can be revised and expanded until Coffee Break 17 is offered some day, maybe even tomorrow!
+ Did I tell you that the Joyful Noise Cafe last Saturday was very successful? The Joyful Noise Boys were back and we heard some new voices which dazzled.
+ Let's see what I can find on the web today.
- Some really good quotes offered by a great tweeter, Philip Arnold + Location England, UK / Web http://pja64x.stu... / offers wisdom on Spirit. Wisdom. Knowledge. Inspiration. Love. God. Jesus. Buddha. I Ching. Lao Tzu. Sufi. Vedas. Quotes. Rumi. Books. Blogs. Video. Activism. Peace. Rights etc.
- A good conversation on "The Future of GM" on The Diane Rehm Show
- "Religion without Revelation" is another illuminating, provocative post at a great blog, John Shuck's Shuck & Jive. Excerpts: "I ask this question honestly. Given the historical-critical method, in what sense is saying 'the Bible is the Word of God' meaningful? Or the Qur'an? Or the Book of Mormon?" & "The intellectual community regards the church as a joke. It is a relic from a superstitious past. Who were the intellectual giants of the Middle Ages? The theologians. As revelation gave way to reason, theology could not adapt and from the perspective of the modern university it has gone the way of alchemy and astrology." & "The fundamentalists are buying. They are using the Bible as the Word of God to call evolution a farce and to enforce an oppressive social agenda not only within the confines of their sects but within the larger sphere of secular society."
- Mr. Tweet has a special report for me recommending hundreds of kindred tweeters!
- Spirituality & Practice offers "25 Reasons Why Twitter Is Spiritual" by Frederic A. Brussat.
- Divine Souls at Twitter.com led me to this Cherokee story on a youth's rite of passage at the Divine Souls blog, a blog on Spirituality and Universal Brotherhood which collates the Postings of the Divine Souls group on Google for display to the general public.
- Thanks to The Witherspoon Society, I learned that Politico offers "Barack Obama's nonideological pragmatism will backfire" by Rabbi Michael Lerner. The article begins: "President Barack Obama’s very nonideological pragmatism, which has received so much praise inside the Beltway and which has given him public support in his few months in office, will ultimately be the downfall of his presidency."
3:17pm UPDATE: I'm headed back to Whitestown soon so this may be the last entry today. I hear thunder in the distance here in Rochester. It's really muggy today and I forgot to bring shorts to our Rochester flat.
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