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Former Republican Presidential candidate weighs in on the Jeremiah Wright “noncontroversy.”
As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say, “That’s a terrible statement,” I grew up in a very segregated South, and I think that you have to cut some slack. And I’m going to be probably the only conservative in America who’s going to say something like this, but I’m just telling you: We’ve got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told, “You have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can’t sit out there with everyone else. There’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office. Here’s where you sit on the bus.” And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had … more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.
- Mike Huckabee, offering his perspective on the preaching of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. (Source: MSNBC)
(HT: Brian McLaren)
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More often than not, we do too much because we are afraid of being judged as failures, we do not trust others to do their share, we wish to exclude alternative approaches, or we want to ensure that we remain unchallenged in the driver’s seat.
— Michael Casey, Strangers to the City, page 34.
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The primary engine of MySpace’s stupendous growth isn’t the Internet, but the fathomless narcissism of the young.
— Caitlin Flanagan, critic for “The Atlantic Monthly” in the July/August 2007 issue, critiquing Generation MySpace by Candice M Kelsey.
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“What is REAL?” asked the [Velveteen] Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”"Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”
“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
— From [tag]The Velveteen Rabbit[/tag] by [tag]Margery Williams[/tag]
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We should note that when [tag]Jesus prays[/tag] that we may all be one, he is not praying for some kind of sociological or theological or ecclesiological or liturgical [tag]unity[/tag]. He is not asking for a homogeneity that levels all diversity and brings plurality into a single “authorized†manifestation of the Christian life or community… Jesus is praying that you and I would live in a similar kind of relationship with God that he has as the revelation of true humanness in the image of God
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