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ELIGION Dispatches asks if Progressive Christianity is failing. Two articles: God Needs You To Get Out of the Bubble We might need the end of Progressive Christianity I don’t need to be told the answer, I’ve seen it time and time again. What I’ve learned is that most things are not progressive: just reactionary. Few [...]

NCE AGAIN The point is made that the general “loud mouth” Atheists really miss the point. But, once again, they don’t miss it by too far. Take a read of Is Christianity Simply About God Entering the Uterus of a Jewish Virgin? The problem is, of course, that it really *is* exactly about that. God [...]

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. [...]

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?

ORD Reaches us here in the not-yet-frozen Trundra of a protest in San Francisco where a bunch of white, middle and upper-class Gays (renting=middle class at 1500 a month for a studio; if you can afford a house in SF, you’re Upper CLass to the rest of us) started throwing the N word around at [...]

PR today was filled with reminiscences of Chicago in 1968. This AM, listening to Morning Edition, I was overcome with the emotions I was feeling. I was flooded with feelings. Strange. I spent a good part of the morning doing a sort of self-analysis: even walking to the coffee shop to process caused me to [...]

NE IS Never sure who to believe anymore: The Journalists blessed by Lambeth to spin. The Journalists excluded by Lambeth who report anyway. Or the Bishops actually doing the work… Clearly not everything coming out of Lambeth will be to the liberal liking. Nor will it be to the conservative liking. That’s the point: Lambeth [...]

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