Comments on Notes from The Rock and Roll Preacher: Delivered to the saints ... in person

Thank you, I have the image, but I don't know what...

2008-06-30T18:14:00.000-05:00

Thank you, I have the image, but I don't know what painting is. Nor the painter. Please, if anytime you know it, write it here. I will be very glad. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. And thanks for your fast answer.

I found the image using a Google search with the w...

2008-06-30T10:11:00.000-05:00

I found the image using a Google search with the words "mary", "baby", and "Jesus".

Hi, please, could you tell the name of the picture...

2008-06-30T03:48:00.000-05:00

Hi, please, could you tell the name of the picture (and the painter) that you have used in this page? It is important to me. Mary with baby Jesus. Thank you very much. Sorry my bad english. God bless you.

The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a valid indic...

2007-11-01T10:42:00.000-05:00

The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a valid indictment against we priests and pastors who get too busy with the machinations of religion to have any time for the good news of great joy which the angels announced to the shepherds.

Hopefully, Jim found some good news on our show. He sent the following comment: Thanks for having me on the show. I like very much how the show appears to be a very grassroots forum, and how it gives voice to people who might not otherwise have access to public discourse.

The Rock 'n' Roll Preacher unplugged? One of my nicest guitars is a Larrivee D-09R ... an acoustic guitar. Who knows? It might make it down to the studio one of these Sunday nights!

I have never been thought of as a frequent flyer ...

2007-10-29T20:27:00.000-05:00

I have never been thought of as a frequent flyer through church doors so this response should be taken in context. I felt compelled to write in agreement with the Rock and Roll Preacher's radio and blog comments re what the church does and what Jesus did when faced with people in need outside the box.

Richard Holloway the Scottish broadcaster lends you support in his book 'How to Read the Bible'.He finds the story of the good Samaritan in Luke central to the message of Jesus and thus the New Testiment.The stranger left on the side of the road injured and robbed
is met by three travellers .To Holloway, the Priest and the Levite represent organized religion and each in turn cross by not getting involved with a perceived untouchable. The Samaritan, no stranger to the outside of the elite saw the stranger and felt in his heart a sympathy and empathy. Listening to this instinct and not the teachings of any elite he crossed over to help and the rest is history. This was the 'New Deal' . Richard Holloway sees the Priest and the Levite absolutely faithful to their organized religion. Don't touch the untouchables. Jesus instead teaches us to be faithful to our heart, which tells us to help those in need with no prerequisites.

Winnipeg may be where James Loney feels battered and robbed. James Loney's excursion to Winnipeg will be remembered in a different way than first intended.
Instead of leaving us with his insights into the social justice in the middle east as seen by his Iraq kidnappers through the point of a gun ,he leaves us with a modern Winnipeg version of the parable of the Good Samaritan.

What about the catholic church? In science this change from the old testament law to new testament justice would be likely viewed as a paradigm shift. The
older view is the rock on which the more recent view is built. And interestingly as in the example of Einstein's ' greatest error' , the addition of the cosmological constant to his theory of the night time sky, for which he was ridiculed and accused of being just old, we now think he was likely right . We just renamed it ' dark energy' So the catholic church should not hang its head. They might have it right . They might not. At least they have a position.

PS. When do we hear the Rock and Roll Preacher's unplugged radio solo for the older neuron crowd?