This is perhaps the scariest aspect of this whole pandemic for me, as I have family members involved in education, and am a lifelong devotee to quality and meaning and means of education. This push to “re-open” education is a carbon copy of the prior craze to “re-open America” and “get back to normal”. We are seeing dire consequences of Continue Reading
Trump Administration again tries to “bully” and retaliate, sending Michael Cohen back to prison from home confinement after he hesitated in signing a condition to his home confinement that he NOT publish his book or speak up about what is in it, or speak negatively about Trump. Federal judge says , in no uncertain terms, SHOVE IT. You cannot do Continue Reading
“We can’t fix the economic damage of the pandemic, without fixing the pandemic” — Rachel Maddow on tonight’s newscast
“Shut it down, start over, do it right.” A letter to our leaders from 150 health experts. https://uspirg.org/resources/usp/shut-it-down-start-over-do-it-right
The “Christian Right” are the modern day Gnostics. They seem to easily adapt their “spirituality” to an ethic and a concept of a Kingdom that is detached from the lives of people where they are, and cling instead to some romanticized, “knowledge/docgtrinal based” system of verbal confession. One must “pose things in the right wording’ in order to be among Continue Reading
(This post was originally posted two years ago today, on Facebook. It showed up today on my Facebook “Memories”) I am intrigued with the eagerness people seem to have to “expose” eco-theological concerns as some form of idolatry, and thus apostasy. It strikes me as rather blind to the clear ecological consciousness of Scripture; which should be recognized from the very Continue Reading
Looks like another wedding weekend is happening across the street. Clumps of people (6-7) coming and going, maskless, in and out of the building yesterday, for what would seem to fit the pattern of a rehearsal dinner. I’ll be looking later on to see if the same behavior persists (wedding attenders of the ceremony plus reception, mask-less, singing, celebrating). I Continue Reading