tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575514155486283253.post7881164878153572892..comments2023-07-19T18:07:56.603-04:00Comments on Progressive Christian Reflections by Chris Glaser: A Priest for the 21st CenturyChris Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05053827119412315808noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575514155486283253.post-27805255514667921122013-06-07T12:29:35.979-04:002013-06-07T12:29:35.979-04:00You wrote this just for me! I appreciate that. R...You wrote this just for me! I appreciate that. Really.....you have presented some thoughts that I have been pondering and writing and hoping.<br /><br />laughing pastorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01106783541250618173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575514155486283253.post-51548828356779027252013-06-06T16:59:45.727-04:002013-06-06T16:59:45.727-04:00Thank you all for your comments!Thank you all for your comments!Chris Glaserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05053827119412315808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575514155486283253.post-52507353339005188062013-06-06T15:32:30.072-04:002013-06-06T15:32:30.072-04:00Wow! So well put, Chris! He made me feel in his wr...Wow! So well put, Chris! He made me feel in his writings that humanity came first, the place from where to "build", and that rejection, condemnation & castration of ideas and sentiments was the actual sin. In his books I recall as if he was flirting with 'the line', much like what Jesus did with his finger on the sand...a challenge to the reader, as if prompting me to "go there, come here with me, discover, grow, come out under the safety and comfort of the box that strangles slowly. Be! Be as you are!" <br />He was neat: and I thank him for great moments lived in reading his writings. Thanks Chris, for your words. jblancodavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12778829768697269303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575514155486283253.post-38299471521403062052013-06-05T10:25:19.607-04:002013-06-05T10:25:19.607-04:00my growing up years as a gay catholic coincided wi...my growing up years as a gay catholic coincided with Greeley's most productive period. Since he had an independent source of income and career he was not as pliable as a regular diocese priest might have been. His heyday was during the post Vatican II period up to the early years of John Paul II. A great deal more was tolerated in those days. All in all he was a powerful, controversial (to the hierarchy that is) and conscientious voice. He willing to say the Emperor has no Clothes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575514155486283253.post-9041272909054848052013-06-05T06:03:33.792-04:002013-06-05T06:03:33.792-04:00Chris, these blogs are always informative as well ...Chris, these blogs are always informative as well as being spiritually uplifting, but today was a "biggie" for me. Somehow, NPR, my usual news source (my clock radio goes on at 6:30 AM) failed me and I hadn't heard of the passing of Fr. Andrew Greeley last week. Wow! Then, in checking out your listed references to other times you'd referred to him, I realized I had also missed the blog "Et II, Benedict?" Checking back, I know why...it was when I was on vacation in NM last fall and away from my computer. That was a powerful blog, also. Anyway, thanks again not only for inspiration but valuable information!Trudiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17866513608442388870noreply@blogger.com