Colleen Kochivar-Baker on Kim Davis and Her Handlers: "Anyone Who Gives a Fig about the Face of Christianity in America Should Be Sick at This Stunt"

And more brilliant commentary on the faux religious liberty show staged by Rev. Mike Huckabee and Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, involving Kim Davis — this from Colleen Kochivar-Baker in a comment responding to Michael Sean Winters and his "sympathetic" assessment of Ms. Davis's story at National Catholic Reporter yesterday:

Seeing Visions and Dreaming Dreams: Impending Socioeconomic and Ecological Crisis and Religious Theories of Change

In a two-part interview with Xavier Casanovas, Oscar Mateos, Santi Torres, and Nani Vall-llossera in Cristianisme i Justícia (via Iglesia Descalza, here and here), Benedictine Sister Teresa Forcades continues to insist that all viable, effective change in both church and society happens from the bottom to the top, not vice-versa: when the interviewers ask her about the euphoria surrounding Pope Francis and his papacy, she replies, 

Kiva, Strathmore University, and Opus Dei: The Rest of the Story (Up to the Present)

So here's an update about what has been happening in the discussion of the choice of Kiva, a charitable non-profit that claims to support gay rights, to partner with an Opus Dei university in Kenya, about which I've blogged recently (and here): as the first link states, Tony Adams and Beverly Woods have told this story to wide audiences beyond the discussion boards of several lending groups at Kiva itself, where it had already begun receiving much attention.*