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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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Can Somebody Just Explain Why?
I take the train from Hartford to Springfield with a woman who is a nurse at a local hospital. While waiting for our train, we talk about life, work, and our daughters. She has four, I have two. Hers are older than mine and her last one is going to college in the Fall. We…
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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 Bridge Over “Power”
Last night, I was reading The Nation (THE best magazine ever, in my opinion — I come back to it all the time) and I came across an article on online feminism and the fact that it has apparently gotten nasty between radical feminists online. A few weeks ago, a client and I got into…
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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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