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Episode 12 This episode is part two of our discussion on Religious Freedom, to wit: Park 51, Cordoba House, a proposed Islamic community center in lower Manhattan. What we might call, if we wanted to generate hits and trolls, “The Mosque at Ground Zero”. Are we all moderate Christians? What’s a radicalized Christianity look like [...]

Episode 11 In this episode we discuss Religious Freedom, to wit: Park 51, Cordoba House, a proposed Islamic community center in lower Manhattan. What we might call, if we wanted to generate hits and trolls, “The Mosque at Ground Zero”. This is the first of a two-part discussion. In this episode we mention: Their twitter [...]

Increasingly, I think American Christians are weak and fearful. In Communist countries the persecution is as bad as it ever was. In the Arab countries, where permission is needed to celebrate the Eucharist, Melkite, Orthodox, Baptist and Anglican communities fellowship freely because there is so much hatred that any priest will do – much to [...]

HIS CAME Across the AP yesterday, pointed out to me by a friend on Twitter. Russian Orthodox Church embraces gays. “IS OUTRAGE!” says Fr Vasili, I’m sure: not lamenting the sudden embrace, but rather the misleading headline. Be sure to read the AP story: essentially gay is still bad, but we oppose persecution of gays. [...]

The Agonizing (yet Most Entertaining) Death Throes of America’s Bourgeois Christian Cults: Glory to God for All things. “‘But the religious right failed. “ I don’t know a thing about the new Mayor’s politics. I tend to imagine she is at least as conservative as the usual dixiecrats ie: a full-on Republican in all but [...]

ETROPOLITAN PHILIP Says, Send me your money damn it and don’t ask any questions.. Yup, makes me wanna trust him. A lot.

HE PRIMARY Topic of conversation viz climate change should not be proof, fear or the lack of either. The elephant in the middle of the room is the accusation that we made a wrong turn with the industrial revolution, that we screwed ourselves with coal and the steam engine and, as a result, have put [...]

ESPITE Several attempts in the media, blogosphere and among my own friends to portray this tragedy as otherwise politically motivated, Bill Sparkman was not killed by Anti-Gov’t actions, but rather by himself. Now, although there are many reasons to distrust even the Federal Census in this day of increasing loss of civil liberties to both [...]

HE LEFT Is coming back to Reality-based cynicism in the area of Bushbama. IT’s nice and all, but no politician can provide meaningful hope if the hope is for meaningless, worldly ideas. Advent continues… there is a real hope.

F COURSE This shows up in my in-box just as I’m going to work. Here’s a link. Comments later. The Antigay Highway: New Report Details Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between US Evangelicals and African Antigay Clergy. “This report describes growing anti-gay movements in African churches as a ‘proxy war’ for US culture battles.”. I love being [...]