What ‘we believe,’ compared to what I believe
TweetBear with me, those of you who aren’t interested in religious arcana. I’ll post something for you later. But it is Advent, after all, and therefore a time for reflection… On a previous post, Mike...
View ArticleLe Pape n’est pas Charlie, soit.
Tweet As you know, Je ne suis pas Charlie. Well, as it turns out, if Google Translate is right, Le Pape n’est pas Charlie, soit. And not only that, but watch what you say about his Mama. I learned all...
View ArticleWhere Cameron Runyan is coming from
TweetFile photo of Cameron Runyan in 2011. Earlier this month, Cameron Runyan happened to run across my blog post from November, when I shared with y’all his written explanation of his lone vote...
View ArticleJoin me at the Solomon-Tenenbaum Lecture tonight
Tweet I’m planning to go to this lecture tonight at USC. Here’s the PDF of the image so you can read it better. And here’s a description: Dean Nirenberg will discuss how Ancient Egyptians, Greeks,...
View ArticleI was SUCH a good boy this morning
TweetI resisted temptation, but I DID take a picture. So does this qualify as food porn? So here it is the second Friday in Lent, and this morning, for the first time in a couple of weeks, the...
View ArticleMy favorite Leonard Nimoy tribute item
Tweet I really enjoyed learning about the Jewish roots of Mr. Spock’s “live long and prosper” gesture. Nimoy was a guy who deserved to be known for more than that one rather cheesy (no, really, I’ve...
View ArticleTake note, kids: Buddha is NOT for tattoos
Tweet My daughter just posted this picture of me in the vicinity of Wat Pho in Bangkok. I liked the message on the awning. Of course, I don’t much like ANY tattoos, but at least we should be able to...
View ArticleA short debate regarding cartoonists and terrorists
Tweet Bryan Caskey wrote this over on his blog: “You’re just not going to convince me that the right and true and courageous’ way to stand up to terrorism is to go out of your way to offend hundreds of...
View ArticleThere is no ‘wall’ between church and state
Tweet First, I agree with Unitarian Rev. Neal Jones that if our governor is going to invite us to a day of prayer, she ought to invite everybody, and not just Christians. And in the video above from...
View ArticleNow THIS is courage in the cause of free speech
Tweet A lot of people have had trouble understanding my point that there is nothing noble about holding contests to see who can mock Mohammed the most, It’s just stupid, immature and offensive. Many...
View ArticleA monster is on the loose in South Carolina
Tweet UPDATE: Suspect has been captured. Again, South Carolina is leading national news for a horrible reason, and this time it’s even worse than the Walter Scott shooting. In fact, it’s nine times as...
View Article‘Amazing Grace at the Statehouse’
TweetMy good friend Hal Stevenson emailed me asking that I share this flyer with my contacts, which I choose to do via the blog: Amazing Grace at the Statehouse! Honoring the Emanuel AME Nine and Their...
View ArticleThe Dalai Lama on the Charleston massacre
Tweet I read a short item about this in The State this morning, so I was interested when I saw that publicists had sent me the embed codes for clips from Larry King’s interview with the Dalai Lama. So...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo grows up, just a little bit — maybe
TweetBryan brings this to my attention: The top editor and publisher of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French newspaper that suffered a deadly terrorist attack in January, said the publication would no...
View ArticleIt depends on what the meaning of ‘Christian’ is…
TweetI’m using this photo from Scott Walker’s website not because it particularly goes with this post, but to help y’all get used to seeing him: If I were to write a post headlined, “Top Five GOP...
View ArticleThese are some bad guys. Some really, truly bad guys
TweetA couple of nights back, feeling nostalgic, I rewatched “Three Days of the Condor.” A fun, well-made flick, even though paranoia films can often be tiresome. In it, John Houseman, as a world-weary...
View ArticleWhy would anyone expect the Pope (or the Church) to be ‘in sync’ with the world?
Tweet In the days leading up to the Pope’s present trip, I’ve seen a number of things like this story from The Washington Post over the weekend: Poll: Americans widely admire Pope Francis, but his...
View Article‘Blue Bloods,’ a show that stands up for traditional values, such as…...
TweetThe Reagans, having another civil debate over Sunday dinner. For years, my parents would ask me if I’d ever seen the cop drama “Blue Bloods,” and when I said I hadn’t, they urged me to check it...
View ArticleWhat do Bernie Sanders and Pope Francis have in common?
TweetThe answer: Dorothy Day, the Catholic social activist and anathema of the Right. The pope mentioned her as an extraordinary American along with Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King (no, not Martin...
View ArticleThe political points made by Pope Francis to Congress
TweetYeah, it’s kinda uncool and even tacky to interpret the Holy Father’s words in political terms, but this is a political blog, so I thought I’d share this NPR piece, “The 10 Most Political Moments...
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