A Year in First Lines

I was thinking of putting together a top 10 list of blog posts, but then I saw the posting this morning of Katherine Willis Pershey -- a pregnant Disciples pastor in southern California and author of the blog .any day a beautiful change. Katherine set up a meme for this first day of the new year, a meme of a year's worth of monthly first lines. This is so much more random, but it gives a bit of insight into what's been happening and what I've been writing about. So here goes -- first lines of 2007!
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January 2007 -- When I was a student at Fuller Theological Seminary, worship was pretty low tech and it was held usually at Pasadena Presbyterian Church or in Payton 101, a large class room/reception area.
February 2007 -- As the War in Iraq becomes more and more unpopular with the American people, and it appears that the current Administration has no clue as to what it's doing or what it should do, and as Congress debates resolutions calling for accountability and an exit strategy, defenders of the war effort are reduced to warning us that opponents of the war are "emboldening the enemy."
March 2007 -- As someone who is a concerned citizen and also trained to be a historian, I found this quote from Arthur M. Schleslinger, Jr., who died yesterday at age 89, compelling: "Being a concerned citizen does not prevent one from being a good citizen" (to Boston Globe, 1997).
April 2007 -- Palm Sunday, in the Christian tradition, celebrates Jesus' “triumphal entry” into Jerusalem.
May 2007 -- For decades the Armenian Genocide has been swept under the rug of history.
June 2007 -- I have a column on torture appearing in the Lompoc Record Sunday.
July 2007 -- Independence Day is once again at the door reminding us that the United States was founded on the principles of liberty and happiness for all.
August 2007 -- As a politically-inclined pastor I find the intense interest in the relationship between religion and presidential politics extremely interesting.
September 2007 --- I earlier posted a section of Ben Meyers' review of John Spong's book Jesus for the Non-Religious, which has gotten the attention of a number of you, several of whom have left comments.
October 2007 -- If I may speak freely, I’d like to pontificate a moment on two First Amendment Rights.
November 2007 --- Richard Beck, a psychology professor at Abilene Christian University, recently published an article in the journal I edit -- Sharing the Practice -- entitled "Ministry in the Post-Cartesian World."
December 2007 --- Nativists, those who fear the impact of "foreigners," are making a comeback in a big way.

Comments

kwpershey said…
Your blog is so much more interesting and substantial than mine!

And I can't take credit for that meme- it goes around the blogosphere every year at this time.

Happy New Year!

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