http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/ Literate Catholics Unite Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:19:48 GMT Ted Michael Morgan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7853 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7853 I have been buying and reading books from Orbis for almost 40 years (since 1970) and they do terrific publishing. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:18:41 GMT Ted Michael Morgan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7852 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7852 I think almost any book in the backlist of Ignatius Press is worth reading, even if most are to my taste extremely conservative. The books are beautifully Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:43:04 GMT tedmichaelmorgan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7851 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7851 I suspose that what I like about Karen Armstrong is that she is not Pat Robertson or Billy Graham or Franklin Graham. That probably allows for too much Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:40:40 GMT Ted Michael Morgan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7850 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7850 He is a good scholar then. He ought to view her with suspicion. I think she does write with an agenda. She was not fair to process theology. In A History of Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:21:30 GMT Joshua Gonnerman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7849 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7849 My (liberal) professor views her with suspicion. He says that she writes with an agenda, and sometimes misrepresents the facts to promote that agenda, Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:08:34 GMT Ted Michael Morgan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7848 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7848 http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/rdbook/1930/religion_is_not_ab\ out_belief:_karen_armstrong's_the_case_for_god/?comments=view&cID=4368#c\ 4368 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:43:00 GMT Ted Michael Morgan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7847 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7847 I am usually not this careless with quotations. I have no idea from where this site got it. I usually work a little harder to find original sources. This Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:17:45 GMT Ted Michael Morgan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7846 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7846 http://thechristianradical.blogspot.com/2009/07/pirates-of-justice-to-converge-on.html This is where I got the quotation. Ted Michael Morgan Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:16:03 GMT Ted Michael Morgan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7845 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7845 i have already misplaced the site from which I got the refernce. Ted Michael Morgan http://fragmentednotions.blogspot.com/ and Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:16:15 GMT Debra Murphy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7844 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7844 Ted, do you (or anyone else on the list) happen to know where this quote can be found in Chrysostom's works? I'm not too familiar, I'm afraid, but I would love Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:42:33 GMT Ted Michael Morgan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7843 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7843 I had entirely forgotten he was a bishop! Yes, yes, yes Ted Michael Morgan http://fragmentednotions.blogspot.com/ and http://www.myspace.com/tedmichaelmorgan1 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:46:16 GMT Ted Michael Morgan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7842 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7842 "The desire to rule is the mother of all heresy" Assignment: Write a short essay on this theme. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:43:12 GMT Elizabeth Tomlinson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7841 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7841 Thank you for all of the great book recommendations--which were brought forward from our heated discussions--so it seems that everything was, in the end, Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:23:48 GMT Debra Murphy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7840 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7840 Nobody ever accuses Victor Hugo of being a good Catholic, but his portrayal of the bishop--name suddenly escapes me--in LES MIS is absolutely beautiful. His Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:23:32 GMT Debra Murphy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7839 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/literatecatholicsunite/message/7839 Nobody ever accuses Victor Hugo of being a good Catholic, but his portrayal of the bishop--name suddenly escapes me--in LES MIS is absolutely beautiful. His