On (not)learning from history

Could the correct pronunciation of Mukasey be “McCarthy”?
In the interest of National Security and fighting terrorism, the U.S. Attorney General’s office is expected to release new guidelines later this summer which open the way for the FBI to investigate American citizens and legal aliens without probable cause. So reports the Associated Press in the [...]

Links

Walter Brueggemann quote at God’s Politics
Bryan Bellamy - You may have seen this elsewhere.
Dave Wainscott’s latest on Christian v. secular music. (anyone who remembers Chagall Guevara gets my vote!)
Kyle Roberson proposes a Wesleyan Neo-Monastic Emerging Community

Even when Wright is Wrong

Barack Obama has removed his membership from Trinity United Church of Christ, where he had been a member for 20 years.  The primary reason, of course, is to separate himself from the caustic remarks of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the long-time pastor at Trinity.
Here’s what I wonder about all this: who are Hillary Clinton’s and John [...]

What makes a person?

As of March 15, to be counted a person in Nottingham, New Hampshire, one has to actually be a person.
The Nottingham Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance “denies constitutional protection to corporations.” (Yes! Magazine,summer 2008, p. 8-9).  Since 1886 corporations have been given most if not all rights, privileges, and protections offered actual people in [...]

Democracy still safe at General Conference

An article in a GBCS newsletter begins with this headline: General Conference democratic process usurped?”
A group of special-interest groups apparently have provided some 150 cell phones to our African delegates for their use while at General Conference in Fort Worth.  The phones allegedly came with an invitation to a free breakfast and “a request that [...]

Check this out

If Pelosi and Gingrich can get together on this, can’t we all?

The city formerly known as Waco?

Waco, Texas, is going green. Okay, we’re not San Francisco, and it’s still hard to drive a block on Franklin Ave. without dodging SUVs, but we are making progress.  Our city’s new Chamber of Commerce building is green: down to plants on the roof, skylights, and a cistern to catch rain water.
The local paper, the [...]

One Bishop’s List, part 1

Deb posted this list of her bishop’s Top Ten Actions of General Conference That Would Make Disciples of Jesus Christ For the Transformation of the World.
Her bishop is Bishop Mary Ann Swenson of the Los Angeles Episcopal Area.
Our quadrennial General Conference begins tomorrow in Fort Worth. I haven’t blogged much about it, but will [...]

….Makes You Wonder

In case you haven’t been keeping up, Texas State Troopers and DFPS raided a compound in Eldorado earlier this month upon the threat of child sexual abuse.  The Compound, known by those who live there as the YFZ or Yearning for Zion Ranch, belongs to a group identifying themselves as Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS.
The [...]

College v. Pro

Can you blame him?  University of Memphis freshman basketball star Derrick Rose announced today he is leaving college for the NBA. Here’s the part of the article taht got my attention:
Rose, who helped Memphis to an NCAA Division I record 38 victories last season, said he enjoyed his year in college but is ready to [...]