Perfect Love Casts Out Guns
The recent mass murder of children in a Connecticut school has resulted in at least some redemption, in the form of the current effort by the President to introduce sensible gun laws. Banning assault weapons and imposing …
read more168 children killed in drone strikes in Pakistan since start of campaign
As many as 168 children have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan during the past seven years as the CIA has intensified its secret programme against militants along the Afghan border. In an extensive analysis of …
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Re-Thinking the “Wonders” of Christmas
A Christmas Requiem for Sandy Hook
Why — despite popular Christianity’s doctrinaire explanations — was a Galilean peasant child’s fate sealed even before he drew his first breath? Was the only reason for the birth of Mary and Joseph’s child simply so he …
read moreRe-Thinking the “Wonders” of Christmas
A Christmas Requiem for Sandy Hook
Note: this Christmas Commentary is written in the context of the holiday observance, and as a requiem for the slaughter of the innocents at a place now known to us all as Sandy Hook. A pdf version to …
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Changing Actions, Changing Hearts
((My wife Roberta and I hope that THIS IS MY SONG will be sung at Obama’s 2nd inauguration in January. It’s “a song of peace for their land and for mine” – just the message America needs …
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Awakened World 2012: Learning to See in a “Wholly holy Way.”
Awakened World 2012, http://www.agnt.org/awakened2012.html was recently convened and hosted in Italy by three American organizations. I learned about the conference through the Association of Global New Thought, one of the sponsoring organizations, http://www.agnt.org/charter/conveners.html. 240 participants came from more than 15 …
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Being Pulled Out of Time
“Baby I’m amazed at the way you pulled me out of time,” sang Paul McCartney during his Wings days. Being pulled out of time was a feeling I experienced throughout a conference entitled “Awakened World 2012: Engaged …
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Why Am I Here?
Thoughts on the Awakened World 2012 Conference
With my heart pounding away, I was asking, “And why am I here?”
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Promises, Promises
What’s a promise worth, any more? Surely one of the most peculiar phenomena in America’s peculiar politics has been Grover Nordquist’s no-tax-increase pledge. It was signed solemnly by countless Republican politicians over the last couple of decades. …
read moreTwelve men to be executed by Libyan militia for allegedly being gay
An extremist Salafist militia in Libya captured twelve men promising to mutilate and kill them for allegedly being gay
Twelve men face mutilation and execution for allegedly being gay after they have been captured by an extremist Libyan Islamist militia. The twelve men were, apprently, having a private party in Ain Zara, a suburb of Tripoli, …
read moreLet My Preachers Endorse: A Modest Church-State Proposal
This past Wednesday the Freedom from Religion Foundation filed a federal lawsuit against IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman for allowing churches to endorse candidates while remaining tax exempt. According to the FFRF, this “constitutes preferential treatment to churches and religious organizations …
read moreFinding the Intersection of Reproductive Rights, Politics, and Faith
This interview is part of a series profiling leaders of the Faith and Reproductive Justice Leadership Institute, a project of CAP’s Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative. The Institute provides faith-based leaders working on reproductive justice with training …
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Bedrock Christianity and Bedrock Americana
A Precarious Reflection for the Thanksgiving Holiday, 2012
That bedrock of Jesus’ teaching did however have implications as to how we might order our lives in society; in closer alignment with what those scriptures depict as something more akin to what the divine had in mind. As well as how we ought to treat one another, without vacuous pretence or self-embellishment.
read moreSouth Carolina Episcopalians break away from U.S. church
(Reuters) – A majority of parishes in the conservative Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina voted on Saturday to leave the U.S. Episcopal Church over disagreements on issues including the national church’s ordination of gay clergy and acceptance …
read moreSavita Halappanavar’s Heartbreaking Death
News of Savita Halappanavar’s agonizing death in an Irish hospital from septicemia and E. Coli infection is all over the internet, and thank goodness, most people are heartbroken and angry. Everything about her death is heartbreaking and angering: the …
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Can Christianity Survive the Prejudice of Christians? A Revolution in Faith and Ethics
“Can Christianity Survive the Prejudice of Christians? A Revolution in Faith and Ethics” presented by John Shelby Spong from Vann Center for Ethics on Vimeo
read moreBarnesville teen denied Catholic confirmation after Facebook post supporting gay marriage
BARNESVILLE, Minn. – If you want to be a Catholic, you have to be 100 percent Catholic.
BARNESVILLE, Minn. – If you want to be a Catholic, you have to be 100 percent Catholic. That’s the lesson one family here learned after their 17-year-old son was denied confirmation after the priest at the Assumption …
read moreOn The Silence Of ‘The Lamb’s Agenda’: An Open Letter to Rev. Samuel Rodriguez
Dear Rev. Rodriguez, I hope this finds you well. Some friends made me aware of your statement on the reelection of President Obama. I read it through multiple times, and each time I tried to put my metaphorical finger …
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