Disqus Log-In or Commenting Problems?

Several readers have contacted me again recently to say that they're having problems logging into Disqus to leave comments. I'm very concerned about this, and sorry it has been happening. Because we spent yesterday traveling back towards home from our trip (and have another day's drive to reach home), I haven't been able to look at this problem carefully.

Wendell Griffen on George Zimmerman Trial and Cultural Competency of American Legal System

My friend Wendell Griffen maintains that the George Zimmerman trial demonstrates that American lawyers are still not trained to be culturally competent--to understand how difference perceived in negative terms results in marginalization for some groups in American society, who need skilled legal representation that they can seldom find in a system tone-deaf to their needs. He concludes:

Catholic Institutions and Expulsion of Gay-Affirming Members: The Consequences of Cultivating Stupidity

The story I mentioned yesterday--St. Lucy's Priory high school in Glendora, California, fired teacher Ken Bencomo after he married his partner Christopher Persky--is now gaining international attention. I saw it this morning when I logged onto the Yahoo site, in the Yahoo feeder of top news for the morning. And Huffington Post has been featuring a report on this story by Kathleen Miles today, too.

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "You Admire Some of the Things They're Doing in Russia"

Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute on what's happening to gay folks in Russia right now:

What Does It Have to Do with Me? Only a Dream

Last night, I dreamed:

A Theology of Women: Notes from An Evangelical Church in the American South

Ephesians 5:22-3

Ira D.S. Knight, "Our Heritage," in Sandra K. Gorin, A Brief History of the Glasgow Baptist Church (Glasgow, Kentucky, 1999): 

Pope Francis's Gay Remarks as Something New Under Papal Sun? Commentators Who Say Nay

I think that Andrew Brown, Kate Connolly, and Liz Davies make an excellent point in their recent Guardian article about the pope's comments on the plane this past Monday: