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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.

EADING the current issue of Geez is hard because – among other things – it points out how many times we assume privilege and power in our equations for “fixing” the poor. Take a look at this bit on Changing the story of change, mindful that you’re reading about a Christian Organisation.
The first [...]

HE CBC’s Podcast, Ideas, is one of my favourite things on the internets. Almost every episode comes with a serious challenge to some form of cultural orthodoxy or pre-concieved notion.
“The science is settled” is now the mantra of climate change activism. Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay [...]

NOTHER SIGN That we’ve returned to the 1930s: The NY Times is reporting that the Unions are “joining the fray” in the Health Care Debates. NOw that Fox and other Right-wing Voices are getting their bullies and thugs to act like this in public, the Unions are counteracting:
John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, [...]

ERE IS A phrase I never really wanted to use: When you get to be my age… I’ve been around the internet long enough to see just about everything – and because of my variegated journey I’ve seen it from just about every angle, thanks – it still makes me roll my eyes [...]

HERE are nearly 2,000 comments on that Video’s page. Sad, really…
 

OW SHOULD We progressive folks deal with the conservative begging folks this Christmas? You know, the bell-ringing Salvation Army Santas and Brass Bands out there… Throwing a dollar or a fiver in their bucket can or even might get around to helping the poor. But it will also be used to support [...]

ENTRIST Political Compromise. More of the same – as I pointed out (during the primaries) when he endorsed the loss of civil liberties in post 9/11. In other words, Obama is about as much “change” as you might find under the cushions of the sofa.
Now, can we all get on with [...]

IVEN ALL the progressive messianism surrounding the recent vote, I think the following liturgy-geek sentence is totally appropriate:
With 70 Days left until the inauguration, let’s try and keep Obamamass out of Obamadvent – even though the anticipation may be killing us.

NLY RECENTLY have the liberals in ECUSA began to cover up their actions. I remember one priest insisting that the vast majority of clergy serve the BCP Liturgy exactly by the rubrics. To which I replied I’d never been to even *one* service that was so. Not one – in 25 years. [...]