Well, I AM sorry to hear about you running out Ritz and CheezInASpraycan, but the news about the Furry Freak Brothers is nice. I stayed near Alessia a while,...
Recycling industrial buildings as museums of fine arts creates lots of cheap floor space while simultaneously preserving an architectural relic from the past....
************************** Lynda Schor & Kenneth Bernard will be reading fiction for The Brooklyn Rail Tuesday, October 18th at 7:00 p.m. The Brooklyn Public...
Michael Andre sits at a table in Gallery-in-a-Field in Brandon, Vermont. The sounds of his opera Orfreo, with music by Elodie Lauten, come to a close. He reads...
I used to teach creative writing to the United States military in Europe. I recently received an anti-Bush joke from a friend at West Point. That seems...
The churches are nearly all split just like the country but about 55% are red, and 45% blue. I have never been able to figure out what a fundamentalist is. No...
Strangely, fundamentalism has become enmeshed in America with a form of Christ-denying, pharasaical paganism by many of those who purport to profess...
... It was pointed out recently that one of the main religio-political tenets of US evange-politicos, and which they, mostly, swear comes right from the Bible,...
Bush is a Methodist. Methodists are Wesleyan. Hillary Clinton is also a Wesleyan Methodist. Baptist churches are very different than Methodist churches....
Poet Dale Smith told me once that the phrase God helps those who help themselves was a saying common among New England Calvinists in the 1700s. I've been...
Yes, that is part of it. There are a LOT of parts. Another one is that they think the big deal is the Book of Romans but the Book of Romans says in the 1st...
A lot of people even believe it is in the Bible. Paul does say that he who does not work shall not eat, but this obviously does not apply to those who are...
I'm not sure that Christ ever says we should feed the poor. At one point a woman pours a half million dollars of perfume on his feet, and the disciples ...
I never saw my father in a church but he certainly believed in work. That's why he enjoyed his 48-foot wooden boat, built in 1930 which he kept docked in ...
Politics is debatable. Most people express their political beliefs as a kind of tic. Generally I have an anti-Bush tic. Calling Bush a Texas Baptist was...
Christ said that if we feed the poor, we feed Him, if we don't, He will tell us to buzz off. James also speaks of the need for works for the disadvantaged...
Christianity without charity makes me sad. I think Christianity is false but benign and lovable--unless you subtract charity. A Christianity of selfishness is...
I may not say this real well, and need to get to bed soon, but here goes: A "Christianity" without charity not only makes one sad, it is like water without...
Protestantism, of course, has been associated with the rise of capitalism. Meticulous bourgeois concerns get their best treatment in Yeats' "September 1913": ...
The churches have a hard time defining themselves and defining what Jesus thought, just as scholars have a hard time defining what Shakespeare was "saying." ...
