Tuesday, January 31, 2006

coretta

Interesting piece at Cliopatria on Coretta Scott King:

Coretta Scott King was born in a backwater of western Alabama. She married into a family that was a generation removed from middle Georgia backwaters. They didn't let her forget it, either. So long as she was Martin Luther King's wife, she remained in the background, a wife and mother. Only with his death could she become the widow. She made as much of it as she could.


I hadn't ever heard of this sort of tension within the King household, but I'm glad that she went on to become such an anazing activist. Blessings, Coretta.

Thursday, January 19, 2006

thoughtsources

  • Abzu

  • Alcove 9

  • Amen Online

  • American Prospect

  • American Conservative

  • Arts and Letters Daily

  • Call to Renewal

  • Christian Biography Resources

  • Christian Century

  • Christian History Institute

  • Christian Mysticism

  • Christian Peacemaker Teams

  • Christianity Today

  • Commentary

  • Ecole Initiative

  • Exploring Ancient World Cultures

  • FaithMaps

  • First Things

  • Foreign Affairs

  • Glorify His Name

  • Hebrew Streams

  • History Today

  • Homestarrunner

  • Ibiblio

  • In Communion

  • Lectio Divina

  • Mother Jones

  • National Association of Evangelicals

  • Oremus

  • Pentecostal Charismatic Peace Fellowship

  • Reformed Worship

  • Relevant

  • Sent Church

  • Signposts

  • Small Voices

  • Society of Biblical Literature

  • Sojourners

  • Spirit Home

  • St. Pachomius Library

  • Stonework

  • The Mennonite

  • The Mercy Site

  • The Mountain Retreat

  • The New Pantagruel

  • The Onion

  • The Ooze

  • The Wesleys

  • Quaker Texts Online

  • Wesley Center

  • Word Among Us

  • World Council of Churches

  • Universalis

  • Voice of the Martyrs
  • books I want to read

    I think these will be easier to keep track of in a post than on the sidebar. :)


  • Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

  • A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain

  • Blood and Roses

  • Salt: A World History

  • Aristotle's Children : How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages

  • Lollards and Reformers

  • Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired

  • William Tyndale: A Biography

  • The English Reformation Revised

  • Happiness: A History

  • Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War


  • A Poetic for Sociology

  • Geography of Nowhere

  • The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood

  • The Female Thing

  • Gender Advertisements

  • Sexual Revolution in Early America

  • The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word

  • The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith

  • Touchdown Jesus

  • Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto


  • The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

  • Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

  • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?

  • Naming and Necessity


  • Relational Holiness: Responding To The Call Of Love

  • Evangelism & Theology in the Wesleyan Spirit

  • Grace Matters

  • Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

  • Fundamentalism and American Culture

  • The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys

  • Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them

  • American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving

  • Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes

  • A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

  • Restless Souls : The Making of American Spirituality

  • Born Again And Again: Surprising Gifts Of A Fundamentalist Childhood

  • Alone With The Alone

  • The Alchemy of Happiness

  • The Courage To Be

  • Charles Wesley: A Reader

  • Who Is God In Three Persons

  • Purity of Heart

  • Bound Only Once

  • The God Who Risks: A Theology Of Providence

  • The Community of the Beloved Disciple

  • After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s


  • An Imaginary Tale

  • Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

  • Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen

  • Chaos: Making a New Science

  • A History of Pi

  • Stumbling on Happiness

  • Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World

  • Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

  • Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

  • Earth: An Intimate History

  • Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements



  • Me Talk Pretty One Day

  • On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language

  • The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School


  • Jayber Crow

  • Godric

  • A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • Momento Mori

  • Father Melancholy's Daughter

  • A Flag for Sunrise

  • Quarantine

  • Gravity's Rainbow

  • The Tin Drum

  • The Clowns of God

  • At the Edge of the World

  • Song of Solomon

  • Continental Drift

  • Ironweed


  • Good Poems

  • Why I Wake Early

  • The Gift

  • The Love Poems of Rumi

  • Bells In Winter

  • Averno

  • The Book of Nightmares

  • The Wild God of the World

  • Sun Under Wood

  • The Sonnets

  • Cascadia
  • Tuesday, January 17, 2006

    CGNU

    Academic potential, redefined.

    The clip is probably representative of the amount of work that will go into this blog, as well.

    Here's me: