Showing posts with label solidarity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solidarity. Show all posts
Sunday, January 1, 2023

Happy 2023!

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Photo of bluffs across Arkansas River at Little Rock a day or two before 1 January 2023 Wishing you all a very happy 2023, and apologizing t...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Here's How I See the Response to the Pandemic Playing Out Now in the United States: People Who Will Pay Highest Price for "Re-Opening" Are the Vulnerable, Elderly, Poor, Minorities

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The U.S. just reported its deadliest day for coronavirus patients as states reopen, according to WHO. At least 2,909 people died of Covid...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

My Reflections as Minnesota and Vermont Declare Grocery Clerks Emergency Workers

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Hell yeah, now make it national https://t.co/XEad0wx53j — Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 19, 2020 The people putting their lives ...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Ruth Krall on Coronavirus: "If We Fail to Adequately Care for Those Who Cannot Care for Themselves, the Door will Open to Threaten Us All"

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There are only TWO coronavirus cases in Mexico. There are 16 in Canada. For Trump, every problem has the same solution https://t.co/DV...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Where's Solidarity When You Need It? Letting Off a Bit of Steam

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I don't need this. Today, I shared on Facebook the following statement by Rev. Andrew Foreshew-Cain from a Guardian interview p...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Video Captures White Young Women Mocking Native People in New Mexico: People Make Connection to Covington Catholic "Pro-Life" MAGA Boys

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Monday, January 7, 2019

Commentary re: Religious Issues, Hot Off Press: Catholic Abuse, Evangelicals & Trump, LGBTQ People & Church, U.S. Catholic Resistance to Pope Francis

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" Whom Would Jesus Shoot? ," Karen Fiorito From the graphic above through the tweets and article excerpts below, some valuab...
Monday, October 22, 2018

Where Do We Go from Here, as the Future Looks More and More Bleak for LGBTQ People in the U.S.?

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So where do we go from here? I ask because I quite sincerely don't know the answer to that question. My sense is that for queer peo...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Telling My Story (Follow-Up to OUTWORDS Interview) 2

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As I think about the interview that OUTWORDS did with me on Saturday, it's impossible to disengage what I said in the interview ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Telling My Story (Follow-Up to OUTWORDS Interview)

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I thought that if I performed brilliantly in school, I could carve out a safe niche for myself in a hostile world, so that when the w...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Liberal "Practicing Catholics" Express Shock That Trump Was Elected; I Don't Buy Their Shock

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When I read a liberal Catholic commentator (who happens to be white, heterosexual, and married) touting himself/herself as a "pr...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Sharing Our Life as Theology: Another Videotaped Theological Conversation with Ivone Gebara, About Diarmaid MaCulloch's Silence, Christian Amnesia, and Gospel Mandate for Inclusivity

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I've previously shared with you two videotaped conversations that I had the honor of having in the past year with the distinguished B...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Henry Giroux on Critical Importance of Connecting the Dots Between Issues and Groups in Battle Against Authoritarianism in U.S. Today

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In an essay originally published at Truthout and just re-published by the Moyers & Company blog , Henry Giroux argues that American ...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Mormons Organize Mass Protests to Push Back Against Abuse of Their LGBT Family Members and Friends: What's Wrong with Catholics?

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My two-week fast from blogging is nearing its close, and I'll now break silence again to share some questions with you. They'...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Madonna on Gay Rights as "Way More Advanced Than Women's Rights": Some Noteworthy Responses

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Something else gaining attention in this week's news: Madonna's statement , Gay rights are way more advanced than women’s...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Quote for Day: Should Our Highest Value Be Free Speech or Love, Kindness, Generosity, and Respect for Others?

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Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun , on the way in which the media are treating free speech as an absolute value, and the highest...

Quote for Day: "Political Cartoons Are Free Speech, But They Are Not Always Innocent and Inherently Democratic"

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For Truthout, Christen A. Smith maintains that while we must grieve the Charlie Hebdo  dead, we must beware of misconstruing racism ...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Nationwide Protests in U.S. Yesterday: Tweets That Caught My Eye

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"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." #NDWBB #ICantBreathe pic.twitter.com/W3M1q5kuKY — NOTRE ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

A Reader Writes: Re: Christians and the Gay Community, "Is It Really a Matter of Changing One's Mind? Or, Is It More a Matter of Changing One's Heart?"

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In response to my posting earlier today about evangelical leader David Gushee's change of mind re: standing in solidarity with g...

David Gushee on the Difference Between Being a Bystander and Standing in Solidarity: The Suffering of LGBT Christians Who Have Been "Pushed Out"

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In an interview at Religion Dispatches with Candace Chellew-Hodge, evangelical theologian David Gushee explains what has caused him ...