{"id":2910,"date":"2010-05-31T12:18:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T17:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2010-05-31T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T17:18:19","slug":"the-week-in-words-my-inagural-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100531-2910.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Words-MY inagural post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week, Barbara H.<\/a> hosts a meme “The Week in Words”, in which bloggers list some of their favorite quotes read throughout the week. Since I’m definitely a reader and somewhat of a quote junkie, I figured I’d jump in to the melee! <\/p>\n

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Read at Justin Taylor<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cLust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker\u2019s ABC, revised and expanded (San Francisco: Harper, 1993), 65.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Vodka Pundit<\/a> explains why the concept of “state’s rights” is mistaken:<\/p>\n

“In other words, individuals have rights, and governments are instituted with powers to protect those rights, and are (or ought to be) restricted from abusing them.<\/p>\n

With me so far? Individuals have rights; governments have powers.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Azam Kamguian speaking of Sharia law in Canada:<\/p>\n

“We cannot let multiculturalism become the last refuge of repression. To accept religion as a justification for human rights abuses is to discriminate against the abused and to send the message that they are undeserving of human right protection.”
\n(Read in Opposing Viewpoints: Human Rights<\/i>, page 78)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Tim Keller’s Prodigal God<\/i>:<\/p>\n

“When a newspaper posed the question, ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ the Catholic thinker G.K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: “Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G.K. Chesterton.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Richard B. Gaffin’s essay in Are the Miraculous Gifts for Today? Four Views<\/i>:<\/p>\n

“Theology that ceases being swept up more or less spontaneously in doxology, like that of Romans 11:33-36, needs to reexamine itself.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out some more Week in Words posts at Stray Thoughts<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every week, Barbara H. hosts a meme “The Week in Words”, in which bloggers list some of their favorite quotes read throughout the week. Since I’m definitely a reader and somewhat of a quote junkie, I figured I’d jump in to the melee! Read at Justin Taylor: \u201cLust is the craving for salt of a … Read more The Week in Words-MY inagural post<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}