Bilgrimage

A long day winding down (collards and turnip greens—and turnips—simmering on the stove, cornbread baking, cookies cooling on racks), and as ...

Pastor Rick Warren is back in the news again—in a way that I don’t imagine will please him, as he tries to craft a kinder and gentler, a no...

From what I've been reading on various blogs (admittedly, progressive ones, though I scan widely), the response to Rev. Joseph E. Lowery...

Kudos to Mary Frances Berry for a fine, moving statement today about the need for our democracy at this point in its history to address the ...

News is breaking on many websites the past two days of strong indicators that the LDS church, in its official face, has an extruding nose as...

Cassandra here. Again. Doing her sad old song and dance, warning, warning with little assurance that her warnings will be heeded. At leas...

Interesting updates to several items I’ve posted in the recent past. As I noted several days ago, when David Hill, a hotel employee in Tenne...

The Deity (aka the Old White Man in the Clouds™, aka God) has been mighty busy of late. God a'mighty busy. Talking to His appointed or...

Even before I read news this weekend that the Southern Poverty Law Center sees hate groups gaining in numbers now ( www.washingtonpost.com/w...

To say that Obama’s choice of Sanjay Gupta for the position of Surgeon-General underwhelms me would be understating the point. I find the c...

I forget which liberation theologian wrote some years back something like the following: When you invite both the lion and the lamb to your ...

I ended yesterday’s posting with a comment about the changing moral mind of our society—about our culture’s developing moral consensus that ...

And on to the prognostications. Which I’m not sure many folks will want to hear—in part, because what I see down the pike is not promising ...