Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The Church Turns East . . . And Back: Bishop Slattery of Tulsa Reorients Christendom

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Lately, several Catholic blog sites have been discussing an issue of burning concern to American Catholics. And it’s not the health care de...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

A Former Lutheran on the ELCA Decisions: Eric Reitan's Statement

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As a counterpoint to my postings on the actions taken at the recent ELCA assembly (see especially here , and click labels ELCA and Evangelic...

Maine Catholic Diocese Keeps Giving Itself Black Eye: More Church Closings as Money Flows to Anti-Gay Campaign

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And now an update to a story about which I’ve blogged a number of times in the past ( here and here ). As the postings to which I’ve just l...

Alternet's Weekly Take-Action Campaign: End DOMA

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Alternet has just announced that the top item in its weekly take-action campaign is calling for the end of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOM...

Partisan Catholics Working Against Health Care for All: America Magazine Speaks Out

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Yesterday I faulted the U.S. Catholic bishops for playing partisan politics with health care reform. The social teaching of the Catholic c...
Monday, August 24, 2009

The Media, the Churches, and the Arc of the Moral Universe: The Civil Rights Struggle Redux

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Yesterday’s discussion of the role the mainstream media continue to play in distorting stories about churches and gay people and spreading ...

Crashing Empires and Missed Moral Opportunities: The Health Care Debacle Again

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George Lakoff on where the Obama administration went wrong in presenting the case for health-care reform: [I]t was a mistake to put cost ah...