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Great stuff! Thanks. Good opportunity to discover a thoughtful web site. Request permission to quote from the article on Women's ordination.
John Gueriguian
guerig@erols.com
Thanks John. Of course you may quote from Vagabond. WM
I skimmed your article, and while I have no comment as to the content of your opinions, I don't see where you address the issue of women's ordination as the church approaches it (by the way I am Anglican, not Roman but I am opposed to women's ordination). I guess you can speculate about power, or strength or any other "motivation" for the Church's position that women not be ordained. That is your prerogative. But, until an argument is presented which addresses the issue from the Church's perspective (i.e. we have no authority do this) then I am afraid people on both sides of this issue will continue to talk past each other.
regards,
Chris Rodriguez
cmrod@mail13.voicenet.com
If the Church has no authority to ordain women, how is it that it takes complete authority in practically all other issues? In an early Mediaeval Council, I don't remember which one, it was decided that women have a soul. If such a decision could come from one gender regarding another one, then the issue was more social than religious. WM
Enjoyed your site...provocative! I am surprised you found me. I've had my site for over a year and you may have been the first person to respond.
Peace!
Les Cooper
les@intstation.com
Les -- Maybe you don't promote your site energetically enough. You know, to find one personal web page on the Net by chance is the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack. Good luck! WM
Hello,
I came across your website while searching for information about the
extinction of the aurochs. You mention the 13th century royal decree in
Poland placing the animal under protection, and the way things turned
out. I wonder if you can supply the reference for this story?
I read a few of your essays and enjoyed them. I too am a pessimist; there is no pessimist like a frustrated idealist.
Regards,
Christine Sulewski
sulewski@slip.net
Christine -- I found the information by accident in reading about the era some time ago. I'm sure that information from Polish University souces is available. WM
She collects rags which she weaves
into placements, carpets, dishrags
and carpetbags that she must trade
for newer rags and victuals. Mamas
warn badly behaved babies saying,
"Gonna sell you to the raghag" who,
everyone knew, sucked baby's blood
Friday nights locked in her candle-lit
shack.
South West Georgia's first Jewess
like a rare earth element in clay
came not so very long ago, ignorant
of directions to the promised land;
and, although some hinted turnabout,
she settled into her small tintop shack
along the tracks. Some said she should
move to the other side. The other side
said let her stay put, some folk move
too much.
Childhood fears became swastikas
until one evening when the train
screamed the Jewish Question was
resolved. Old flesh on rusty rails
some swear still bleeds into gravel
and other insist the old hag groans
under the burden of diesels headed
North to the promised land of milk
and honey. Good old boys chuckle,
their red necks bright with knowing
the South will never die--'cause some
truly believe with true belief.
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