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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 “shouldn’t get too sanctimonious” because “they were tough times and people thought we were going to be attacked again”. Really?! Are you kidding me???!!! I…
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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 told people he would) decided to kill a bunch of women. He shot them in Santa Barbara, California because he was mad at a specific…
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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 it, so here it is…) I had a conversation with a young person who is very important to me this morning. We talked about faith…
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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 on my hands because no one’s showing up today, so I thought I’d free-associate about mothers for the Mother’s Day Weekend. I know people who…
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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” as my mother used to say. At other times, I think we don’t try enough to live out our dreams and challenge the limits. Mostly,…
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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 I had a sense that something had changed in the universe and my friend Cindy wrote back and said “The SCOTUS decision from yesterday probably…
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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 straight-out disagree with. 1) “Spirituality is not interchangeable with religion” and 2) “Spirituality is not a commodity that is present or absent, or one that…
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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, “Well, I hope she likes it warm. She’s gonna be there for awhile”. She told me that I was the first person to suggest that…
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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 have friends who are union organizers and faith based organizers. I’d like to start a debate or hear both sides or hear all sides because…
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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 for a long time — solutions not so much. Here in Massachusetts, where I work, it is a brisk 21 degrees. When I arrived, it…
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