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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 mark [...]

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 of an [...]

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, sent [...]

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 in exasperation. [...]

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 the Salvation Army’s [...]

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 life?

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. I was promptly [...]