Something led me to looking up something about Pittsburgh favourite Mr. Rogers yesterday before getting together with Andrea and Patrick, and I found myself really struck by this story where, according to Wikipedia, In 1969, Rogers appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. His goal was to support funding for PBS and ( Read more... )

I've always been interested in the Jewishness of Christianity, finding that to be the route into Christian thought that makes the most sense. My Introduction to Christianity course reflects this, with the huge amount of space given to the Jewish scriptures in order to contextualize Christian writing and thinking. Related to this, I have long had ( Read more... )

I was interested to see this notice on a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople the other day. Bartholomew I got big points, I thought, for his prayer-style overtures to the Pope. But there are a couple of interesting nuggets of the Eastern Christian perspective of Western Christians in ( Read more... )

Saved by the bell! After sitting at my computer virtually uninterrupted through the entire day, sorting through files that needed to be recovered and files that did not, I was finally summoned away from my computer by an instant message from my undergraduate roommate demanding that I call on the instant. Or rather, repeating the demand that had ( Read more... )