Thursday, April 30, 2020

A Report on Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year (1722)

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History is so strange, outlandish — unlike the present day — that it's a relief to escape into it and remind oneself this cannot ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

No Imagination: The Fundamental Failure of the Church in Face of the Pandemic

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What the Catholic response to the pandemic, especially in the US, has shown us about the brutal impoverishment of the Catholic moral,...

My Response to "American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel" — Still None, Still Done, as US Christianity Exhibits Total Lack of Imagination in Face of Pandemic

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I did watch " American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel. " It’s an excellent film and great statement, and I highly recomme...
Friday, April 24, 2020

A Valuable Opportunity Tomorrow, April 25: "American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel" — "In Oklahoma, You Can Be a Democrat or You Can Be a Christian. But You Can't Be Both"

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In Oklahoma, you can be a Democrat or you can be a Christian. But you can't be both.   ~ Rev. Robin Meyers, Mayflower United Church ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Wendell Griffen: "Chickens of Racism, Materialism and Militarism Have Come Home to Roost in the Convergence of Trump’s Presidency and the COVID-19 Pandemic"

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  I'd like to point readers to a valuable essay my friend Wendell Griffen published two days ago in  Baptist News Global . It's...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Whose Life Is Expendable, Whose Is Not? More on Tacit Agenda of the "Pro-Life" Party Supported by White Christians to "Re-Open" US

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Two days ago, I wrote ,  What most "pro-life" white Christian Republicans will not say out loud right now — though an inc...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

While the Elderly, Minorities, and the Imprisoned Die, A Push to "Re-Open" the Country by "Pro-Life" Christian Republicans

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Reported US coronavirus deaths: 7 weeks ago: 0 deaths 6 weeks ago: 17 deaths 5 weeks ago: 49 deaths 4 weeks ago: 249 deaths 3 weeks ...