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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 [...]

Christ is Risen! OMEDIAN Sam Kinison (RIP) used to do this routine during the Ethiopian Famine. He’d yell at starving Ethiopian Children on TV. “See this? You know what this is? SAND! You know what it’s gonna be in a hundred years? SAND! Nothing grows in a F’in Desert!” (You can see this rather infamous [...]

HE BBC Reports on Russia’s plans for rearmament: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said Moscow will begin a comprehensive military rearmament from 2011. “The primary task is to increase the combat readiness of our forces, first of all our strategic nuclear forces,” he told top military officers. This is the other shoe I’ve been waiting [...]

INALLY Figured out what I’ve been mulling over in my head about the whole bail-out thing since Bush started it last year: STOP THE F!@# GIVING AWAY MONEY TO COMPANIES. Reagan and Bush and Bush proved that voodoo economics do not work. Repeat: do not work. Let the bastards fail. Fall. close. shut down. If [...]

HE PAPERS Will tell you: we’ve lost 3,600,000 jobs over the last 13 months. We’ve surpassed the job losses of the worst of the recessions of the last 20 years. Where else are we going? I’m going to bet the direction is down for the foreseeable future. Why? Same thing that got us here: Greed. [...]

ISHOP Alan tweets that the journalistic version of Judgement Day may soon be upon us: Could it be that the NY Times will close by May? The Atlantic writes, It’s certainly plausible. Earnings reports released by the New York Times Company in October indicate that drastic measures will have to be taken over the next [...]

HE Economy is tanking, as we all know. They kept saying “well, not until the gov’t says so…” and lo, the Gov’t agrees – it started a year ago! So after a while, naturally, Churches feel the pain. Some folks will loose their jobs, and it won’t be pretty. (I lost my job in a [...]

HE LAST Paragraph of the following was heard on AFR this afternoon (beginning at “You have been…”). As I thought it – by itself – another case of Patristic Communism, I googled it to find the text so I could post it. Instead, I found the context of the quote and found it even more [...]

OHN Chrysostom on the Sins of the poor. I love it: it’s a backhanded sermon against the rich. Pinko. Those comsymps at Ancient Faith Radio are getting more and more radical all the time! (Glory to God!) If the economy keeps tanking, AFR’ll be a liberation theology radio station soon. The sins of the rich, [...]

AISE YOUR hands if you remember or know how to bake bread: not fancy, organic, stuff either, but solid, I-want-a-sandwich kind of bread. Raise your hands if you remember or know how to make a chocolate cake for your family with next-to-nothing in the kitchen. Raise your hands if you remember or know how to [...]