Resistance Is Necessary

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  • We “Tortured Some Folks”????

    President Obama this past week admitted that a Senate subcommittee’s report was coming out and he announced it by saying, “we tortured some folks”… and then continued on that we…

  • Misogyny — It’s What We Do To Ourselves

    There’s a lot of talk about misogyny (dislike of women) this week, as well there should be. This past weekend, apparently, a very angry boy/man decided he would (as he…

  • Faith As A Journey…

    (This is new post to of a series on Do-Your-Own-Theology. Though it is about a specific situation and person, it occurred to me that more people might need to hear…

  • A Meditation on Mothers

    I thought I’d change my Facebook cover and profile pictures to my mother and the mother of my daughters, it reminded me of the topic and I have some time…

  • Limits (Not A Happy Thought?)

    I don’t know why I feel compelled to write this, this morning, but I have always had the sense that we, as a species, are “too big for our britches”…

  • A Change In The Force and… We’re Going To Need A Bigger Boat (In which many of my influences speak…)

    People feed me straight lines and I think they want me to do something with them — this is one of those times. I posted on Facebook this morning that…

  • Religious CAN be Spiritual

    I’m reading the latest issue of “Family Therapy” magazine and there’s an article on the importance of spirituality, especially in recovery. It makes two claims I either find questionable or…

  • On the Pending Death of Fred Phelps

    I once knew a lesbian whose mother had done some really nasty things to her as a child. Years later, she told me her mother had died, and I responded,…

  • A Question — Not a Statement — About the Minimum Wage

    I’m against poverty and I’m against greed.  As a Christian, I can –and I do say– that. But I have friends who are economists or have studied economics and I…

  • Where Has All The Housing Gone?

    Though this piece is coming out now, due to some particular circumstances, I have been contemplating talking about it for quite some time. In other words, the problem’s been around…

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