Showing posts with label Arkansas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arkansas. Show all posts
Saturday, November 5, 2022

There Are American Food Deserts, and Then There Are American Food Deserts

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Food deserts are usually thought to be areas in the U.S in which it's difficult to buy fresh produce, fruits and vegetables, and other ...
Sunday, December 6, 2020

As Arkansas Governor and Med School Chancellor Warn We Are at a Critical Point, Arkansas Attorney General Rutledge Tweets Photos of Maskless Gathering

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  Leslie Rutledge on Twitter This is Arkansas's Republican attorney general Leslie Rutledge on December 4.
Saturday, November 7, 2020

Church Bells Ringing Throughout the World, Horns Honking, Fireworks and People Dancing in the Streets: Celebration of the End of Trump Presidency

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" The Guardian ,  CNN's Van Jones brought to tears as Joe Biden wins US election " Mark Sumner, " America is celebrating ...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Robert P. Jones's White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity — Excerpts Worth Noting

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As I did recently with Sarah Posner's new book   Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump , I'd like to s...
Monday, July 13, 2020

News Commentary in Time of Plague: 43 Pages of Obituaries in Houston Today (and the Role Many US Christians Are Playing in the Pandemic)

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OUR LOCAL PAPER: The Houston Chronicle obituary section was 43 pages today. Let that sink in. — Rogelio Garcia Lawyer (@LawyerRogelio...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

"Public Health Train Wreck in Slow Motion" in US: Where's the Leadership? Where Are the Pro-Life White Christians Who Set This in Motion?

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Teresa Hanafin in today's " Fast Forward " from Boston Globe :  [A]s Dr. David Blumenthal, president of The Commonweal...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

As Churches Re-Open Across US, CDC Issues Report on Arkansas Church in Which a COVID Cluster Spread into Wider Community

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In the current pandemic, churches and church gatherings have proven repeatedly to be a perfect petri dish for spread of coronavirus inf...
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 ...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

12,000 US Catholics Sign Petition to Bishops to Permit Public Masses for Easter: "The Reckoning Is Upon Us"

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Kansas Gov Laura Kelly puts in place a stay-at-home order and a ban on large gatherings, like other (sane) governors. Republicans in K...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Quote for Day: Right-Wing Evangelical Churches Want to Resist Closing Services — But Risk Killing Off Their Congregations

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David Neiwert, " Evangelical churches run smack into coronavirus' lethal reality, but some continue to resist " David N...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

As America Becomes Number 1 in World Coronavirus Infections, the "Beautiful" Idea of Packing Churches for Easter: My Commentary

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8 in 10 white evangelicals, 6 in 10 white Catholics & Mormons, 50%+ of all US white Christians, set this nightmare into motion, claim...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Washington Post Reports on Arkansas Church with COVID Infections as Warning for Other Churches: My Response

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KFSM News Arkansas, " Coronavirus live updates: 236 confirmed cases in Arkansas, 1,050 negative tests thus far " In an arti...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Rev. Wendell Griffen on Our Choice for This Season of Pandemic

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And for a different (and in my view, authentically pro-life) voice from an Arkansas church, after I just shared dismal news about a chur...

News Breaks That 34 Members of an Arkansas Church Are Infected with COVID: My Reflections on the Curiously Slow Learning Curve of Churches

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Jose A. Del Real, Julie Zauzmer, and Ava Wallace, " Without guidance from the top, Americans have been left to figure out their own c...
Monday, November 11, 2019

"You Served Your Tour with Valor": Honoring Veterans of the African-American Struggle for Justice and Dignity

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Today is the U.S. Veterans' Day holiday, and as tributes to this or that family member who has been in the military pop up in my...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Wendell Griffen, "Standing with Elaine"

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With the permission of my friend Judge (and Reverend) Wendell Griffen, I'd like to share with you a statement he has made recently o...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Everybody Has a Story: Updating You on Recent Events in My Husband Steve's and My Life

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Weeks back, I alluded to a hard patch through which Steve and I have been walking, and told you readers of Bilgrimage that I would sa...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Indianapolis Archbishop Claims Firing of Gay Employees Necessary to Address "Public Situations": My Response

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Masha Gessen, " Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall ," on the Supreme Court ruling in Bowers v. Ha...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Bishop Anthony Taylor of Little Rock Updates List of Priests Credibly Accused of Abuse of Minors

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This is another footnote to my posting two days ago entitled " As Catholic Dioceses Release Lists of Priests Credibly Accused of...

Michael Iafrate on How Jurisdictional Mentality Protects Abusive Priests by Hiding Cross-Diocesan Connections in Lists of Abusive Priests

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This is a follow-up/companion piece to what I posted two days ago  about lists of priests credibly accused of abusing minors which ar...