Lynne Bundesen
Lynne Bundesen is the author of five books addressing religious issues including “So The Woman Went Her Way”, “One Prayer at A Time”(Simon and Schuster) and the upcoming “The Feminine Spirit: Recapturing the Heart of Scripture” (March 2007:Jossey_Bassey). Her email address is lynnebundesen@hotmail.com.
Lynne Bundesen is the author of five books addressing religious issues including “So The Woman Went Her Way”, “One Prayer at A Time”(Simon and Schuster) and the upcoming “The Feminine Spirit: Recapturing the Heart of Scripture” (March 2007:Jossey_Bassey). Her email address is lynnebundesen@hotmail.com.
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QUIET TIME!!!!
Column: Interesting Times
Jun 17 2008 05:26PM
I hope impersonalizing is one step out of hell because in my mind I had wordy none too pleasant conversations with her.
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Column: Interesting Times
May 20 2008 12:02PM
“Mineral make-up rocks”, Oprah says.
Interesting Times
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Apr 22 2008 08:44PM
Now, the devil is not a graphic singular figure but trivialization—making big issues inconsequential, horrors and injustices frivolous.
Serving vegetables and prisoners
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Apr 7 2008 12:48AM
'See the pot as your own head; see the water as your lifeblood.'
Miracles matter
Column: Interesting Times
Mar 24 2008 01:17AM
So I take it, you've never witnessed a miracle?
Tempest in the pulpit
Column: Interesting Times
Mar 17 2008 02:23AM
One pastor's Pentecostal sermon is another person's flame war?
Bread crumbs and manna
Column: Interesting Times
Mar 10 2008 01:29AM
Small things can become the elements of a full-blown structure, a life, deep friendships, purpose and meaning. But sometimes we don't see the manna until years have gone by.
Having a famous 'twin'
Column: Interesting Times
Feb 25 2008 02:39AM
With maturity has brought the conviction that finding and living in and with my spiritual identity is the only answer to the eternal question 'Who am I?'
Ecospirituality
Column: Interesting Times
Feb 18 2008 12:59AM
That old theology, that the earth is independent of us and that we have "dominion" over it, has nearly faded and has been replaced by a greater devotion to Creation as God's whole purpose and concern for us all.
One flew over the condo board
Column: Interesting Times
Feb 11 2008 02:29AM
My frustrated neighbor has been publicly labeled as a 'troublemaker' by the manager and board chairman because she wants two light bulbs changed.
How do you choose?
Column: Interesting Times
Feb 4 2008 12:50AM
Arguments about 'experience' when it comes to choosing a leader are a non-starter with the biblical God. Judgment is what the Lord requires.
For the love of God
Column: Interesting Times
Jan 28 2008 12:59AM
For those who might think that the Bible is about dead men and dogma - Alicia Suskin Ostriker quotes Jewish tradition that 'there is always another interpretation.'
Politicians in the pulpit
Column: Interesting Times
Jan 21 2008 12:20AM
As Hillary Clinton spoke at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, she was saying by that very act that she is separating voters as a campaign strategy before South Carolina's primaries next week.
Thoughts on a birthday
Column: Interesting Times
Jan 14 2008 01:55AM
Gwendolyn was my caretaker, my early teacher who took me to church, where there was music, singing, enthusiasm and where I would be the only white-skinned member. My loyalties lay with her and her people throughout my life.
Please and thank you
Column: Interesting Times
Jan 7 2008 12:35AM
My despair at the disappearance of 'thank you' has more to do with concern for what will become of people who don't acknowledge material and spiritual gifts.
10 New Year's resolutions for spirituality
Column: Interesting Times
Dec 30 2007 01:24AM
It is a great paradox that the Infinite is found in small steps that can be taken at home, the office and on the road.
Joseph should have argued with the innkeeper
Column: Interesting Times
Dec 24 2007 01:26AM
How do I somehow know, am overwhelmingly convinced, that there is room at the inn - that there is a place for all of us in an endless dimension unbounded not only by space but also time?
The Earth has a fever
Column: Interesting Times
Dec 17 2007 12:27AM
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech Al Gore spoke of the spiritual energy that can be unleashed to help heal and cure the patient earth. He quoted Archbishop Desmond Tutu that to ignore the challenge of global warming is a sin.
The Nobel and climate change
Column: Interesting Times
Dec 10 2007 01:43AM
Between speeches, reports and music, the earth shall be full of the knowledge of (Creation), to paraphrase Isaiah, as the waters cover the sea.
Women and Torah
Column: Interesting Times
Dec 3 2007 12:29AM
Tamar Ross helps us weave our way through the myriad misconceptions, histories and arguments on women and Torah, and we are the richer for tackling the book.
Treasures of the snow
Column: Interesting Times
Nov 26 2007 02:16AM
Snow attacked the windshield, and I was driving less than five miles an hour. After an hour I opened the car door on the driver's side to see if I could follow the road that way and saw that there was no road there, only a cliff.
That was a Thanksgiving
Column: Interesting Times
Nov 19 2007 12:21AM
As long as there is the World Wide Web, my grandfather's ghost will be with us, even as each of his six children has passed on and Thanksgiving at 7410 Oglesby lives on only in the minds of a few of us grandchildren.
They are not dead
Column: Interesting Times
Nov 12 2007 02:22AM
All my illusions will eventually slip away. What will remain, forever, I hope, is my contact with those now slipping away, ending an era, but not a contact.
For every action
Column: Interesting Times
Nov 5 2007 01:11AM
As the light emerges later in the morning and disappears earlier in the afternoon, I notice that an object at rest (me under the down quilt) tends to stay at rest - unless the phone rings and I finally get up.
Is war within us?
Column: Interesting Times
Oct 29 2007 02:25AM
Who are these people who shake the world with their threats? Their backgrounds have been analyzed and dissected for all to read, but I still don't know who they are. All I know is that I cannot sleep over threats of war.
Light everywhere
Column: Interesting Times
Oct 19 2007 01:38AM
Those watercolors drip with color, water, impressions of smoke and fire, with the light always present. I felt as if I were in the skiff with J.M.W. Turner.
Friedman, Gore and me
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Oct 12 2007 12:58AM
Glaciers are melting in Norway. Perhaps the Nobel Peace Prize Committee will choose as winner someone or some group that calls attention to the environment?
Breaks my heart
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Oct 5 2007 01:30AM
The next time you go to Target or the thrift shop, the next time you want to clean out closets, do think of how you might keep a child warm at Christmas.
Wind and waves
Column: Interesting Times
Sep 28 2007 02:06AM
Where do we start if we need to calm the storms of our lives or the world? Who can calm Iraq?
If thy sister trespass against thee
Column: Interesting Times
Sep 21 2007 02:11AM
The class is beginning to turn against her. That is the opposite of what she expected, bringing to the seminar her years and years of telling people in Roman Catholic education what they should and must know. (Part 2 of two.)
Poor, dear Ms. Religious Education
Column: Interesting Times
Sep 14 2007 01:02AM
Desperate to be appreciated for something that is of little or no value - literalness - she blocked out any inspiration for herself or the others in the class. (Part 1 of two.)
Burn, burn, burn
Column: Interesting Times
Sep 7 2007 01:56AM
Few of us think that we are hurting someone when we think hateful thoughts. Perhaps we should.
The end is near
Column: Interesting Times
Aug 31 2007 01:00AM
It's a club, those who want others destroyed, those who read some words of the Bible but not all of them, and not the words in context.
What wimps
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Aug 24 2007 12:56AM
With presidential candidates like those in last Sunday's debate, not only will there not be peace, there will remain the question: What kind of God do these presidential wannabes actually believe in?
The woman who knew everything
Column: Interesting Times
Aug 17 2007 12:50AM
She was 30 minutes into her certainty about how the Bible was totally revisionist before I opened my mouth to speak.
What's for dinner?
Column: Interesting Times
Aug 10 2007 01:04AM
I think sometimes that the only time I am sane is when I am cooking, in my kitchen, standing over the sink peeling, washing up.
How do you get old?
Column: Interesting Times
Aug 3 2007 01:20AM
Is there a class you can take to prepare for aging?
Flatterers and fools
Column: Interesting Times
Jul 27 2007 01:30AM
When next we are flattered, let us remember that the road to the wilderness can easily begin with a compliment.
Family
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Jul 20 2007 01:54AM
When a family member uses emotional blackmail, strikes the harp strings of guilt to achieve short-term ends, what is the appropriate response?
Ye shall go out with joy
Column: Interesting Times
Jul 13 2007 02:10AM
It's hard to believe that he would leave the children alone with me while he packed, but the ego of one who believes he has power blinds the eyes.
Parody by the fireplace
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Jul 6 2007 02:35AM
If I said I was a Celtic princess descended from the Valkyrie and that my sisters, the trees, talked to me, she would believe me. But if I told her the Bible was about her life today, she would think I was selling a doctrine.
A solemn anniversary among friends
Column: Interesting Times
Jun 29 2007 12:24AM
I have zigged when I should have zagged, turned down gifts from God, new ways of living in new countries and I have suffered as a result when I did not have to suffer.
The day of the endless abyss
Column: Interesting Times
Jun 22 2007 02:16AM
How could it be that my son was dead? I had seen him four days earlier. Talked to him and stood beside him at worship.
In sorrow
Column: Interesting Times
Jun 15 2007 01:56AM
Beware of theology that says the kingdom of God is not at hand.
Rape starts with a thought
Column: Interesting Times
Jun 8 2007 01:21AM
This 'respectable, church-going' businessman had exactly the same thoughts as a rapist - intruding on a woman alone at home, projecting his sexual fantasies and alleged needs on another.
Now I am become Death
Column: Interesting Times
Jun 1 2007 02:25AM
'A nuclear explosion will become a scriptural text,' writes E.L. Doctorow.
David Mamet's 'The Wicked Son'
Column: Interesting Times
May 25 2007 01:56AM
The book may make you angry, may disturb you, or may cause rejoicing that someone has said what needs to be said.
Goodbye to The Pink
Column: Interesting Times
May 18 2007 02:28AM
It was a religious experience to participate in the generosity of spirit that the restaurant, the family, the staff shared with us all over many years. If you were ever there, you know.
Grandparents to the rescue
Column: Interesting Times
May 11 2007 12:32AM
There is something so pure about the spirit of most grandparents, so unselfish, that grandparental love may be a religious experience.
Sleazy McGreevey
Column: Interesting Times
May 4 2007 12:53AM
I shudder to think of James McGreevey - publicity hound - as priest? Don't we all know more about him already than anyone should know about anyone?
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