tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559899446967884295.post3230063752120406424..comments2023-11-05T04:30:12.604-08:00Comments on Queer Eye for the Lectionary: Sunday, August 31, 2009LouieCrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14397282343672792365noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559899446967884295.post-12264106230726084922008-08-31T13:53:00.000-07:002008-08-31T13:53:00.000-07:00Many thanks for your father's insight, and for you...Many thanks for your father's insight, and for your own.<BR/><BR/>I shall re-book that appointment and reduce the time. <BR/><BR/>I think I have already done time with him. Sometimes a month or two on the bishops-deputies discussion list is taxation aplenty on one's spiritual reserves. <BR/><BR/>Joy anyway!<BR/><BR/>LouieLouieCrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14397282343672792365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559899446967884295.post-88313718480021091542008-08-31T13:14:00.000-07:002008-08-31T13:14:00.000-07:00Paul was writing in and to a shame-and-honor cultu...Paul was writing in and to a shame-and-honor culture. By refusing to get into it with someone, you maintained your honor and increased their shame - that's what those burning coals are meant to represent.<BR/><BR/>My late father - a Methodist preacher of great dignity - used to say that church fights were like pissing contests. The thrill of winning was eclipsed by the self-disgust of having taken part in the first place.<BR/><BR/>Paul has a consistent message of trying to drive the shame-and-honor system out of the church. I've gotten to like that about him. But I<BR/>don't think I'd want to spend a year with him, Louie!<BR/><BR/>Pamela Grenfell Smith<BR/>Bloomington, IndianaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com