tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post7415893996503360593..comments2023-09-29T06:00:09.242-05:00Comments on Julie Pippert: Using My Words: Just Post for Social JusticeJulie Pipperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169574697104642479noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-36404765231256312852007-03-21T21:46:00.000-05:002007-03-21T21:46:00.000-05:00amen. amen. amen. I am speechless.amen. amen. amen. I am speechless.Alicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10866244966623589346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-3358439447072181102007-03-12T19:41:00.000-05:002007-03-12T19:41:00.000-05:00Jen, thanks!Chani, and thanks to you too! Now that...Jen, thanks!<BR/><BR/>Chani, and thanks to you too! Now that's a haunting I'd be cool with. I still am noodling on the secret stuff for a post.<BR/><BR/>Rachel, thanks!<BR/><BR/>Kim, I am totally LMAO but with you, really. Blog post on sticky notes at Chuck E Cheese about the secret. I love it. Is it up yet?<BR/><BR/>Bones, that's really weird. When I was living just up the street from the flower pot I had totally forgotten every single philosophical principle ever. ;) As far as your Catholic comments, welcome to my weird world. <BR/><BR/>Mary-Lue, you know what? it was sanity saving. The kids hit this "it better be string theory you accomplish when you're done with this one" phase.<BR/><BR/>As for your unformed thoughts about the debate and the Proletariat...<BR/>I can't wait until your thoughts are formed to hear your opinion.<BR/><BR/>One time, this coworker of mine said (and this guy was a Ranger), "I'd like you beside me in a war. I know you'd take fire to haul my ass back if I took a hit." I accept potential consequences of informing the debate.<BR/><BR/>What you've written is what I am talking about.<BR/><BR/>Greatness. A great call. I've personally seen the consequence of someone answering a great call. It involves great sacrifice, usually on the part of others around, most of whom don't even get mentioned in the movie, except maybe as "crying woman" or "forlorn child." Kim at After the Ball recently wrote a great post about this.<BR/><BR/>Your last paragraph sums it up perfectly.Julie Pipperthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169574697104642479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-45824877945333109962007-03-12T16:00:00.000-05:002007-03-12T16:00:00.000-05:00Well, you were busy in February, weren't you?I don...Well, you were busy in February, weren't you?<BR/><BR/>I don't really know what else to say. My thoughts are too unformed right now. I keep typing things about the vanguard of the Proletariat (the proclaimers of all things good for you) and the dangers of trying to inform a debate (people don't always respond well)and then erasing them. I don't think my thoughts are cohesive inasmuch as I have a response to your post. <BR/><BR/>I can tell you, however, that I do believe in social justice. For years now, I've used some material for spiritual formation from a group called Renovare'. One area of spiritual formation is service. They call it social justice. I love that they tie both ideas together. In the material, you are encouraged to consider weekly what you are doing to bring justice to the world. It might be as small as refusing to participate in unkind words being said about another or something on a much larger scale. When you start to think about it that way, day in and day out, it does affect your view of the world.<BR/><BR/>The need for social justice has been stirred up much lately in my life. First, in our church where we have been undergoing a renewal of sorts and next, in the movie Amazing Grace. William Wilberforce's mission to end the slave trade in Britain is so inspiring. I found myself, at the end of that movie, a little melancholy. I was envious of the call that Wilberforce felt upon his life to end the slave trade. (Along the way, he also founded the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, etc.)<BR/><BR/>So, while, as of the time I write this, I am still wistful for an obvious and great call to some just purpose, I also know that every day I have opportunities to have an impact on the world around me and that I can best do that by being aware of and informed about this world.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10270726693980247861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-47997646167553398302007-03-12T14:56:00.000-05:002007-03-12T14:56:00.000-05:00that's really weird. Down the street from the flo...that's really weird. Down the street from the flowerpot, while studying at Gordon, I thought I being sooooo obscure and fancy when I wrote a paper on the principle of subsitiarity, quoting heavily from rerum novarum and quadragesimo anno. <BR/><BR/>Sometimes I still wonder why I'm not catholic. If social thought and activity were as good a measure of religion as thological dogma is, I suppose I would be.<BR/><BR/>By the way, when John Kennedy ran for president, some reporter asked him if he thought that because he was catholic, a papal encyclical would change domestic policy. Kennedys response" what the hell is an encyclical?Boneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16504810076352510226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-34800120404250325032007-03-12T10:50:00.000-05:002007-03-12T10:50:00.000-05:00another great post, as always..Agree with your com...another great post, as always..<BR/><BR/>Agree with your comments, Chani!Rachel Briggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08657472782444613862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-88714049541609988652007-03-11T12:37:00.000-05:002007-03-11T12:37:00.000-05:00This is absolutely a wonderful post. You've deline...This is absolutely a wonderful post. You've delineated everything that I would like to have said ~ and couldn't put the words together right. You are a clear thinker and need to be heard. <BR/><BR/>I am probably at least 20 years older than you. I'm not all that healthy. I'm gonna croak before you. <BR/><BR/>If you do not write a book in your lifetime, I promise to come back and haunt you. :)<BR/><BR/>Seriously. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Peace, <BR/><BR/>~Chanithailandchanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171731740204067889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-7476476172076911252007-03-11T11:33:00.000-05:002007-03-11T11:33:00.000-05:00julie, you did such an amazing job of putting diff...julie, you did such an amazing job of putting different truths out there for us to think about in February..and also, yes...in March.<BR/><BR/>You write with an eloquence i can't muster. this post is terrific.Girlplustwohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07056576921114387218noreply@blogger.com