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The Budget and Us
I’m sitting in a restaurant in Chicopee, MA as I write this. For those of you that don‘t know Chicopee, it’s an old mill town – a factory town built up near a river everywhere where mills used the river to power them. When I was young, this whole area had factories everywhere that kept…
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Your C Score — for Caroll (and Todd, who “gets” it)
My friend Caroll Cyr was commissioned as a Christian Educator in our denomination today and during the service she was questioned about the relevance of the Bible in today’s world. She replied that “ of course” the Bible was relevant, and then she said that she was going to be going to a meeting about…
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The Untried Solution: Regionalizing Connecticut Schools and more
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” — George Bernard Shaw, famously quoted by Robert F. Kennedy George Harris, the pastor of South Church, and I were talking today as we walked in Hartford’s Walk Against Hunger and we got to talking about…
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Women’s Work Is: a) Never Done b) Never Paid For c) All of the Above d) None of the Above
A million years ago, when I was a pastor in a small town in upstate New York, my parishioners and I were sitting on my porch discussing feminist analysis of scripture when a woman said, “I don’t like those feminists. I don’t believe in what they stand for”. I was shocked, but after I regrouped,…
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Re: Travon — We’re Ready
I’m a non-professional blogger and my corner of the blogosphere is growing but I think is usually seen by, I assume, my group of Friends from Facebook. My strength as a writer has grown over the past two-plus years, and I have come to believe that my opinion matters as much as the next person’s.…
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I Can’t Imagine — Trauma, Depression, The Truth, African-Americans, and Travon Martin
I just finished watching the Rep. of Travon Martin’s Florida district, Frederica Wilson, speak about the tragedy that happened in her community. Here’s the link to the speech: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/trayvon-martin-reactions_n_1376046.html?ref=topbar#s809240&title=Frederica_Wilson. Once again, the press missed the boat on this one. The description of the link says: “Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) denounced shooter George Zimmerman as “a renegade…
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Promises Not Kept? What Happened To “A Man’s Word Is His Bond”?
I was flipping through some newspaper-or-other on line, and began following the Doonesbury cartoons that many papers have chosen to not print. The version of them I found was in the LA Times. Down in the corner was a small article re: my alma mater, Cal State University, Los Angeles. Actually the article was about…
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Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Guy… Rush and America
I just got done watching Steven Colbert’s take on the whole Rush Limbaugh scandal about contraception and a Georgetown Law Student. Sadly, I learned something. There weren’t just a few quips about the student. “Slut” and “prostitute” were not the only names he called her. There was a lot of talk about the woman who wanted to…
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Whose Body Is It Anyway? Birth Control Pills and Women in America
There seems to be a really bizarre movement going through our Congress which involves birth control and the Federal Government or Catholic Hospitals and Insurance and President Obama and Politics. The most outrageous of them is something like a Congressional hearing where the one woman who wanted to speak was removed because she had no…
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