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THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM
The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem along with other local Christian leaders expresses its opposition to the mostly-American phenomenon of Christian Zionism.
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http://www.hcef.org/index.cfm/mod/news/id/16/subMod/NewsView/NewsID/1595.cfm
Exodus 33.7-11, 17-23: Moses's relations with God
These passages describe Moses's encounters with God in the Tent of Meeting and his thwarted desire to look YHWH in the face.
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http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=90248068
Bonhoeffer's 1934 sermon at Fanø, Denmark, on peace
I posted parts of this a long time ago, but the original page disappeared. I'm now posting this new link.
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http://changetolink.com/QZBSz
Bonhoeffer's sermon at Fanø, Denmark, 1934: "The Church and the Peoples of the World"
The full text of his famous ecumenical sermon, quoted in a blog post. I'm bookmarking this mainly because the English text of the sermon -- which is brilliant -- is very hard to find onli...
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http://xcommunicator.blogspot.com/2005/03/bonhoeffer.html
Horace, Odes I.1 / Horatius, Carmina I.1 (Wikisource)
"Sublimi feriam sidera vertice" ("my sublimations will carry me to the stars"). Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fla.wikisource.org%2Fwiki%2FCarmina_%28Horatius%2...
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http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Carmina_(Horatius)/Liber_I/Carmen_I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Odes (Carmina) (ed. John Conington), XXX.30
"I shall not altogether die." Via the Perseus project at Tufts. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fptext%3Fdoc%3DPerseus%253Atex...
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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0025
Horace, Odes III.30 / Horatius, Carmina III.30 (Wikisource)
Contains the famous line, "I will not altogether die" ("non omnis moriar").
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http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Carmina_(Horatius)/Liber_III/Carmen_XXX
Thomas Chalmers, baritone, and orchestra, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (comp. Julia Ward Howe, 1861), recorded 1918 on wax cylinder
Using this in my Religion and Violence class (ever read the lyrics carefully?). Time: 2:59. More information about this recording at the UCSB library site: http://snipr.com/3jlwe
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http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/0000/0587/cusb-cyl0587d.mp3
Euripides, The Bacchae (ca. 406 BCE), full text at Perseus Project (Loeb ed.)
Kind of a clunky interface, but it's all there.
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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0092
Excerpt from Irenaeus (ca. 120-202 AD), "Against Heresies"
A key excerpt from one of St. Irenaeus's key anti-gnostic writings in which he lays out the doctrine of "recapitulation," i.e., Jesus' reversal and healing of all the accumulated sins of ...
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http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.iv.xvii.html
"Onward Christian Soldiers," performed by chorus and piano
From FamilyRadio.com
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http://archive.familyradio.org/mp3/hymnal/list_3/Onward%20christian%20soldiers.mp3
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854)
Was just thinking about the way Virginia Woolf has Mr. Ramsay quote this poem repeatedly in To the Lighthouse, especially the line, "someone had blundered."
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http://poetry.eserver.org/light-brigade.html
Repent America Press Release, Aug. 31, 2005: "Hurricane Katrina Destroys New Orleans Days before 'Southern Decadence'"
From the page: "Hurricane Katrina has put an end to the annual celebration of sin." Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.repentamerica.com%2Fpr_hurricanekatrina....
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http://www.repentamerica.com/pr_hurricanekatrina.html
Caravaggio, "The Sacrifice of Isaac" (1590-1610, oil on canvas) - via Webmuseum
Source: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/
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http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/isaac.jpg
Caravaggio, "The Calling of Matthew" (1599-1600, oil on canvas) - via Webmuseum
Source: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/calling/
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http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/calling/calling.jpg
Dylan Thomas - The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the...
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http://www.bigeye.com/theforce.htm
Aeschylus, Eumenides (full text, English and Greek)
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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0006
Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need |
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.barackobama.com%2F2007%2F06%2F23%2Fa_politics_of_conscience_1.php
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http://www.barackobama.com/2007/06/23/a_politics_of_conscience_1.php
Seinfeld Lists - The Virgin
This cracks me up. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seinfeldscripts.com%2FTheVirgin.htm
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http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheVirgin.htm
Hans Memling (c. 1430-1494), Vanity and Salvation (painting, c. 1485)
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Memling_Vanity_and_Salvation.jpg
51 - A Colour Map of Utopia « Strange Maps
Ambrosius Holbein's "Map of Utopia," in color, published with Thomas More's 1515 satire, Utopia.
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http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/51-a-colour-map-of-utopia
Defence of Poesie (Ponsonby, 1595)
"Now for the poet, he nothing affirmeth..." Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uoregon.edu%2F%7Erbear%2Fdefence.html
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http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/defence.html
Adrian Holbein, "Map of Utopia" (ca. 1515)
This is actually just a test.
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http://media.tumblr.com/zyWiUii68cejn3x9c1RI6We5_500.jpg
Ronald Reagan: Remarks in New York City Before the United Nations General Assembly Special Session Devoted to Disarmament
Reagan's use of the "citizen of the world" line. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.presidency.ucsb.edu%2Fws%2Findex.php%3Fpid%3D42644
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=42644
Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms
Published in the Saturday Evening Post on four consecutive weeks in February and March, 1943.
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http://www.bilderberg.org/fight4.jpg
Goebbels on Radio (1933)
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http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb56.htm
Clipmark: Rembrandt's two renderings of the Binding of Isaac
The first one is the one Rembrandt did late in his life, and it's arguably a much superior piece of art. In the early one, the image is violent and dynamic, in the later one, it's much qu...
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http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/A94E8613-1C6B-429A-B22F-E820E7DFD129
Nazi propaganda film, "Hitlerjunge Quex" (1933), at Google Video
TRT: 86 minutes.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4609327474848138201&ei=YUMvSLboG4r2qQOjrOWqCQ&hl=en
Thomas Hart Benton - Painting to Sound the Alarm in the Wake of Pearl Harbor
Clipping this mainly for the great slideshow of hard-to-find Benton images from the months following the US entry into WWII.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/08/arts/design/08BENT.html?ex=1386219600&en=a1781d31f287fac8&...
American Rhetoric: William C. Faulkner - Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature
Text and audio of Faulkner's Nobel banquet address, originally delivered Dec. 10, 1950, in Stockholm.
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http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/williamfaulknernobelprizeaddress.htm
William Faulkner's Nobel acceptance speech, studio version (orig. delivered 12/10/1953, Stockholm)
Source: http://snipr.com/2az1h [www_americanrhetoric_com]
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http://www.americanrhetoric.com/mp3clips/speeches/williamfaulknernobelprize34936943639329.mp3
The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear
I used to love these when I was a kid. Not sure what made me go trolling the web for them ... but there you are.
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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13646/13646-h/13646-h.htm
The original Mother's Day (hint: it's not from Hallmark)
Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic, was one of the early advocates for a national Mother's Day holiday, as an antiwar organizing effort. Here's her "Mother's Day P...
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http://womenshistory.about.com/od/howejwriting/a/mothers_day.htm
Some notes on the folk song, "Green Grow the Rushes, O" [5]
Apparently this song represents a very ancient tradition, and no one knows precisely what all the lyrics mean. My son loves it.
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http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Images/Broadwood-ECS700/The_Twelve...
Some notes on the folk song, "Green Grow the Rushes, O"
Apparently this song represents a very ancient tradition, and no one knows precisely what all the lyrics mean. My son loves it.
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http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/green_grow_the_rushes.htm
Montaigne's skepticism: Apologie of Sebond, 1580
Montaigne's famous defense of Raymond Sebond, the proponent of natural theology, in which he lays out a profoundly, even shockingly skeptical view of human knowledge.
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http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/2xii.htm
Illustrations of the "Harrowing of Hell"
Happy Good Friday, everybody. Here are a few interesting historical images of the "harrowing of Hell" tradition drawn from various Christian iconographic sources.
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http://www.patzinakia.ro/libri/Harrowing%20of%20Hell/illustrations.html
David Hume's epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1734
In his early 20s, the great Scottish philosopher, David Hume, wrote this "letter to a physician" (unidentified, but probably Arbuthnot) giving an account of his melancholic symptoms and h...
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/davidhume
The Latin Library: huge collection of public-domain texts in Latin
This is a pretty massive collection. Pretty bare-bones -- no notes, no fancy navigation tools, just text -- but still. The main page is all classical authors, and the links to medieval an...
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http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/index.html
Thomas Merton on "sanity" and Christianity in the modern world
Merton's thoughts on the finding that Eichmann was legally "sane": "sanity" is overrated in a world where mass destruction is considered an acceptable way of waging war. Given the modern ...
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http://www.tomjoad.org/eichmann.htm
The Latin Library: huge collection of public-domain texts in Latin [5]
This is a pretty massive collection. Pretty bare-bones -- no notes, no fancy navigation tools, just text -- but still. The main page is all classical authors, and the links to medieval an...
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http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/neo.html
The Latin Library: huge collection of public-domain texts in Latin [4]
This is a pretty massive collection. Pretty bare-bones -- no notes, no fancy navigation tools, just text -- but still. The main page is all classical authors, and the links to medieval an...
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http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/medieval.html
Three of my favorite second-century martyrs: Polycarp, Ignatius, Perpetua [5]
Here's what I'm having students read this week, just in case you're wondering what a true tenured radical does.
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/perpetua.html