Friday musings

I came across two articles in the NYT today.

The first has to do with an Episcopal church allowing their building to be used as the location for Muslim group to their annual convention.

Once again the conservative right is on the attack.  I'd say more about it, but the fear and the stupid run so deep that I'm pretty much left to say, "Good Lord, deliver us."

The second is this article (roughly) about biblical literalism.  I found it somewhat interesting, but one thing the author says is this:

The nonobvious point for secular readers is that a commitment to the literal truth of the Bible can be an intensely creative process. It captures your attention. It demands that you work to make the text come alive.

I'm not sure we have the same idea about creative imagination here.  From what I've seen,  one form of imagination allows you to see how God is working through a very creative process to bring all people within his loving embrace.  The other form of imagination requires one to see dinosaurs missing the boat (literally) and finding creative ways to keep Others (women, glbt, immigrants, blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Jews, etc etc etc) in their place.