tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954032186621541669.post2614666349139347654..comments2023-12-23T07:04:04.016-08:00Comments on Thinking Faith: Listening to Ted WilliamsBill Trenchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17055902411464959661noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954032186621541669.post-30380793970328537532016-04-27T08:09:27.627-07:002016-04-27T08:09:27.627-07:00Thanks, Bill, for taking the time to comment. I th...Thanks, Bill, for taking the time to comment. I thought of correcting places where I was not clear, but then I decided I needed to say I was wrong and write a blog about that. This is especially painful since I totally love the Ted Williams story.Bill Trenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17055902411464959661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954032186621541669.post-9426825210216115132016-04-27T08:07:16.032-07:002016-04-27T08:07:16.032-07:00Thank you for your thoughtful comments. I wasn'...Thank you for your thoughtful comments. I wasn't suggesting that we "let it go" forever, just for now. But in the larger sense, I think I was wrong and this and I have written a new post on how I was wrong.<br />Bill Trenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17055902411464959661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954032186621541669.post-42954569244087689202016-04-25T08:50:10.540-07:002016-04-25T08:50:10.540-07:00In the age of the Religious Freedom Act - and who ...In the age of the Religious Freedom Act - and who knows what other wonders of human decency ALEC has in store for us down the road - I'd be sad if, as we "let it go," we simply affirm the perception - or even worse, the reality - that the Church prefers to align itself Biblically and socially with those who brought us - out of the rich resources of bigotry - 250 years of African slavery, 100 years of Jim Crow and centuries of oppression of women. Because, by "letting it go" that's who we'd appear to stand with. Bill Flugnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954032186621541669.post-77273706092354622022016-04-24T04:42:24.841-07:002016-04-24T04:42:24.841-07:00I enjoyed the Williams story... but I wonder about...I enjoyed the Williams story... but I wonder about the wisdom of applying it to this issue. At first it seemed apt... a kind of realistic compromise in keeping with "the politics of reality" we find being marketed elsewhere today. "Let's go for what we can get..."<br /><br />Then I began to think some more, and what may be wisdom in deciding what pitch to swing at may be, in more serious areas of human life and human spirituality, a mater of moving past realistic compromise and into defeatism and betrayal of central values. <br /><br />Are you seriously suggesting that we "just let go" "that grotesquely offensive statement about “homosexual practice” being incompatible with Christian teaching"? Really? But if we retreat into making our peace with that "grotesquely offensive statement" where does the retreat end? Who else do we sell out? <br /><br />And what is the nature, purpose and vision of the Church that remains after we "let it go"?Abrahamnoreply@blogger.com