tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77221184193361282942011-09-20T04:18:13.575-04:00"Be gentle with each person you meet, for each of them is fighting a great battle." -St. Ephrem the Syrianportinexilenoreply@blogger.comBlogger3501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7722118419336128294.post-79540556617571601062009-05-12T01:18:00.001-04:002009-05-12T01:18:35.833-04:00

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sample chapter of book

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FROM: http://nonviolentjesus.blogspot.com]Paraguay, one of the poorest countries of Latin America, with a tragic history rarely mentioned in the reports on ex-bishop Fernando Lugo’s assumption of the presidency, was welcomed into the light on August 15 after the longest one-party rule anywhere in the world, 61 years of the repressive Colorado Party. To assess the meaning of this event, both for

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Close Guantánamo Now! By John Dear SJ Created Jun 3 2008 - 05:09 [BE SURE TO CLICK ON THE DIRECT LINK SO YOU CAN VIEW THE VIDEO OF THESE BEAUTIFUL SOULS SPEAKING TRUTH TO THE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES...]I was in Washington, D.C. last week for the opening day of the trial of 35 friends and peacemakers who dared to protest the indefinite detention and torture of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

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[From: http://nonviolentjesus.blogspot.com/ ]"You're like fish that only see the bait, never the line," we would mock in return. For we believed – and quite a few of us still do - that people should not be measured by material possessions but by their ability to transform the lives of others - the poor and underprivileged; that the economy needed to be regulated and reorganised in the

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Some evangelicals turn to monasticism, suggesting unease with megachurch religion - and the stirrings of rapprochement with the Roman Catholic Church.By Molly Worthen | February 3, 2008S.G. PRESTON IS a Knight of Prayer. Each morning at his Vancouver, Wash., home, he wakes up and prays one of the 50-odd psalms he has committed to memory, sometimes donning a Kelly green monk's habit. In Durham,

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[H/T VoxNova ]A letter with over 1250 signatures has been delivered to Pope Benedict XVI in advance of his scheduled April visit to the United States. Encouraged by the Pope’s public statements “that there were not sufficient reasons to unleash a war in Iraq,” the letter asks that refuse to visit President Bush at the White House as a sign of his protest. In the event that the meeting takes place

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JFK and the UnspeakableWhy He Died and Why It Mattersby James W. Douglass Advance Praise for JFK and the Unspeakable"JFK and the Unspeakable is an exceptional achievement. Douglass has made the strongest case so far in the JFK assassination literature as to the Who and the Why of Dallas. The conjunction of unrestrained elements in cold war America—defense industry elites, Pentagon planners, and

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H/T: inhabitatiodei58 MINUTES, YOUTUBE

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FROM AFTERTHEFUTURE...If there is one overarching emotion that characterizes Romanticism, it's nostalgia. The Romantic poets from Blake to Wordsworth hate modernity and long for something lost, a lost age (or a lost childhood) when one did not feel so estranged, when men were men and women were women, where nobility and grace and chivlary were the rule, where the world was full of mystery and

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e.g. :Žižek on Reflexive RacismMetz, Žižek, and the Politics of Apocalyptic HistoryMore on Balthasar, Metz, and Conceptual Neatness

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"...Into this neutral airWhere blind skyscrapers useTheir full height to proclaimThe strength of Collective Man,Each language pours its vainCompetitive excuse:But who can live for longIn an euphoric dream;Out of the mirror they stare,Imperialism's faceAnd the international wrong.Faces along the barCling to their average day:The lights must never go out,The music must always play,All the

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by Becky Garrison[some good comments after the article]

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Fast from judging others; feast on the Christ dwelling within them.Fast from emphasis on differences; feast on the unity of all life.Fast from apparent darkness; feast on the reality of light.Fast from words that pollute; feast on phrases that purify.Fast from discontent; feast on gratitude.Fast from anger; feast on patience.Fast from pessimism; feast on optimism.Fast from worry; feast on

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"...And in almost all cases, when I've explained this to people, there's a sense of excitement and a sense of, "Why haven't we been told this before?"

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E. J. Dionne Jr. [Commonweal]"...Religion is, necessarily, both conservative and progressive. Religion is rooted in tradition and survives through development and change within tradition. It applies old truths to new circumstances. It also reexamines old truths in light of new circumstances. The conservative insists that the tradition not be distorted merely to accommodate passing fads and

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[More astute analysis from Jack at AfterTheFuture]Clinton the Hawk and Her AdvisorsAgain, in case you needed reminding about one of the most important differences between Obama and Clinton: It should come as no surprise that during the run-up to the Iraq invasion, Obama spoke at a Chicago anti-war rally while Clinton went as far as falsely claiming that Iraq was actively supporting al-Qaeda.

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Lourdes: 150 Years Ago TodayPosted at: 2008-02-11 12:15:00.0Author: James Martin, S.J.Today marks the 150th Anniversary of the appearances of Our Lady to St. Bernadette Soubirous in the Grotto of Lourdes, the small town in Southern France that has become one of the church's main sites of pilgrimage.It has become fashionable in recent years, especially after Vatican II, to downplay the miraculous,

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[Picture: John McManus - PictureOurLand Irish Photos]Listen to this when you get a chance and you have time to absorb it. [click on the post heading above]John Moriarty's "Invoking Ireland":'Invoking Ireland is a miscellany of parables and aphorisms by which, as individuals, and not as a herd, we might find a way of living authentically on this island ... Moriarty writes a prose poetry in whose

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"People get ready, there's a train a comin'You don't need no baggage, you just get on boardAll you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin'Don't need no ticket, you just thank the LordPeople get ready for the train to JordanIt's picking up passengers from coast to coastFaith is the key, open the doors and board 'emThere's hope for all among those loved the most..."---------------------------To:

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...."Israel's methodical actions make it clear that it is systematically grinding down and now actually starving people for whose welfare it is legally accountable simply because it regards Gaza's 1.5 million men, women and children as a surplus population it would, quite simply, like to get rid of one way or the other: a sentiment made quite clear when Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi proposed,

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MoreSustenaceFromNonviolentJesusBlog

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Great post From dotCommonwealPosted by Robert P. ImbelliIn the current Commonweal, Luke Timothy Johnson revisits the notification of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on aspects of the Christology of Jon Sobrino, S.J.Johnson’s article, “Human and Divine: Did Jesus Have Faith?”, is a typical example of Johnson’s informed scholarship and openness to dialogue. In many ways his tone and

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"I'm lost in admiration for Lamin Sanneh's magnificent study of world Christianity, for the work's geographical scope and historical sweep, and for the breadth of the author's learning. Throughout, Sanneh asks the critical question: how can we reconceive Christianity in a way that frees it from its European and imperial contexts, permitting the faith to adapt to the kaleidoscopic realities of

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I'm taking a break from all the politics and theology and foreign films and dramas and documetaries and 'worthy' shit --I'm going back to basics, and will try to stay away from this electronic crack pipe interweb for a while and try and get some stuff done. So adios, reader[s?] - I am off to watch Rocky Balboa and drink some Jamesons...Check out the reviews at RottenTomatoese.g:ROCKY BALBOA by

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This is a clip from a new film, "Chalmers Johnson on American Hegemony," in Cinema Libre Studios' Speaking Freely series in which Johnson discusses "military Keynesianism" and imperial bankruptcy.

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delivered 4 April 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City

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By William T. Cavanaugh

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[Youtube]

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by Jason Barr

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Chapter/Section SummariesSection 1A good Creation of love and beauty takes a turn for the worse, landing it in a murderous chaos. What to do? Flood it and start fresh? Build a tower that reaches heaven? Appoint an adventurous elderly couple to lead the people out of the nations to the Promised Land? Something has to save humanity from themselves …Section 2The construction of a set-apart people

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Episode 1 [4] | Episode 2 [5]Drag both episodes into your iTunes library [6]Our hunger for wisdomBruno Barnhart is a Camaldolese monk of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, Calif. He is the author of The Good Wine: Reading John from the Center (Paulist, 1993) and Second Simplicity: The Inner Shape of Christianity (Paulist 1999), and co-editor of Purity of Heart and Contemplation: A Monastic

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"It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence. It's nonviolence or nonexistence." -Martin Luther King, April 3, 1968,

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"Christianity is not a gnosticism grounded in ahistorical myths, but rather a revelation religion based upon certain very key historical events wherein God disclosed himself to us. At its best, historical criticism orients us to this truth. The principal vice of the historical-critical method is its epistemological imperialism, by which I mean its tendency to do its work in abstraction from the

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Great book - dense, but worth savouringsee also

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GraciasADios

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By Daniel BerriganThe trouble with our statewas not civil disobediencewhich in any case was hesitant and rare.Civil disobedience was rare as kidney stoneNo, rarer; it was disappearing like immigrant's disease.You've heard of a war on cancer?There is no war like the plague of mediaThere is no war like routineThere is no war like 3 square mealsThere is no war like a prevailing wind.It flows softly;

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[Excerpts - click title for full article]...It’s just assumed that God is this single individual with more power than anyone else, who intervenes now and then to get certain things done, and whom you need to satisfy on a number of levels. Again, this isn’t the God of Christian revelation. When you hear talk radio or people in the press talking about God, this is the God they’re talking about.

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Insights from Pope Benedict's new encyclical.By Gerald O'Collins | JANUARY 21, 2008

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Interesting ruminations by Joseph S. O'Leary

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Congress could do a good job, theoretically, but it can't. Why? Its owned lock, stock, and barrel by corporate America. So you think you're going to become president and you're going to turn to the Congress and say, “Let's really straighten out corporate America.” This is foolishness. It's fantasy.Video and transcript - 10/01/08

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In response to Gloria Steinem's column asserting that women become more radical as they age, and that's why they voted in N.H. for Clinton: What is radical about voting for a corporate lawyer who, in defense of her Arkansas savings and loan shenanigans, once said you can't be a lawyer without working for banks? Steinem boasts of Clinton's "unprecedented eight years of on-the-job training in

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"Just as Chesterton knew that the ads in the skies were the tokens of a counterfeit paradise, we must see, in the history of capitalism, a celestial aspiration, and in the hunger for riches, a sacramental longing. Even in the fretful dreamlands of late capitalism, the world remains, as Gerard Manley Hopkins knew, charged with the grandeur of God, even as “all is seared with trade; bleared,

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[Life has changed, not ended]"I believe that our friends among the dead really mind us and look out for us. Often there might be a big boulder of misery over our path about to fall on you, but your friends among the dead hold it back until you have passed by." John O'Donohue, Anam Cara [John O'Donohue made the hike to heaven on January 3, 2008, a day after Big John Stephenson set off for the

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[Picture by John McManus, www.pictureourland.com/BY JOHN O’DONOHUE, from ‘Benedictus – A Book of Blessings’Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,May the music of laughter break through your soul.As the wind wants to make everything dance,May your gravity be lightened by grace.Like the freedom of the monastery bell,May clarity of mind make your eyes smile.As water takes whatever shape it is

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By Steve Paulson, salon.comThe atheist delusionTheologian John Haught explains why science and God are not at odds, why Mike Huckabee worries him, and why Richard Dawkins and other "new atheists" are ignorant about religion.By Steve PaulsonDec. 19, 2007 | Evolution remains the thorniest issue in the ongoing debate over science and religion. But for all the yelling between creationists and

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[Marc Chagall]...8. The flipside of an apolitical church is a sacralised state. This is “the Constantinian trap” (Lesslie Newbigin). And a sacralised state easily becomes a demonic state. The cross is draped with the flag, and discipleship is absorbed into citizenship. The German Christians are the paradigm nationalist idolaters; history repeats itself in the farce of the Religious Right. “Never

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HolyShit...This is one of the sanest and most inspirational pieces of writing I have ever read. I think it might be the cue for me to stop all this web-surfing and reading 15 books at a time and try to start really putting my shoulder to the wheel. Here's and excerpt:...Nietzscheanism is an argument in the final analysis that seeks to overcome modern/postmodern disembedded alienation by a return

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another good one from Jack at "AfterTheFuture"

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By John Dear SJCreated Dec 18 2007 - 09:26 Thank you, God of peace, for announcing the coming of peace on earth and for coming among us to make peace. Thank you for siding with the homeless, the refugee, the marginalized, the immigrant, the outsider, the disenfranchised, the imprisoned, the enemy. Thank you for being good news for the poor and the oppressed.Thank you for your incarnation in the

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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~karamazo/audio.html

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[Click on title for link to podcasts]Fr. Thomas KeatingThe gift of contemplative prayerBenedictine Fr. Thomas Keating speaks on the ancient and modern origins of contemplative prayer, which he calls Centering Prayer, and its place in our lives. He sees contemplative prayer as a gift from God, allowing us to open to the Spirit in a deeper and much needed way. Episode 1: Rediscovering the tradition

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"The emerging [Christian] thought is a self-acknowledged form of heresy insomuch as it is aware of its failure to describe that of which it speaks. This recognition acts as an effective theological response to fundamentalism, as it unsettles the dark heart of its self-certain power. Very briefly, fundamentalism can be understood as a particular way of believing one's beliefs rather than referring

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From Levellers“If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.” Dorothy Day.

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“If you need a theory to worship Christ, worship your f---ing theory!” Stanley Hauerwas

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The comments after the post are interesting, especially this one from Kim Fabricius:...You are right, Matt, about the cultural and theological illiteracy of our times which the New Atheists exploit and promote, but the answer is not ecclesiastical denial and meanmindedness, hysteria and picket lines. Rather Christians should own up to the truth in the diatribes of the cultured despisers of

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Why do people in church seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? … Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and

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NTWrightAudioMiroslav Volf LecturesStanley Hauerwas: Dietrich Bonhoeffer On Lying - Reflections on America

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From: Faith&Theology [blog]...[Pullman:]“My books are about killing God.” I just hope that The Golden Compass faithfully executes the deicide that the author so imaginatively conceived and elegantly crafted in the novel.For the death of this God would actually do the church a great service. He is the god Pullman’s mentor and fellow iconoclast William Blake, whose 250th birthday we celebrated last

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Dialogue # 11picture: Copyright 2007 www.mmorgenstern.comOne writer asks:What are the real reasons behind the dioceses filing for Chapter 11 protection? Is it all about money?Father Tom Doyle and I have served as consultants and expert witnesses in civil cases of clergy abuse in all five dioceses that have so far filed for bankruptcy.Therefore we were required to review the evidence in the

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[By Damon Linker, The New Republic]Excerpt: ..."ndeed, the tone of today's atheist tracts is so unremittingly hostile that one wonders if their authors really mean it when they express the hope, as Dawkins does in a representative passage, that "religious readers who open [The God Delusion] will be atheists when they put it down." Exactly how will such conversions be accomplished? Rather than

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Picture - Michael MorgensternVery Informative site. Worth bookmarking

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More wisdom from NonViolentJesus"And woe unto you if you are torturing your fellow human being. Woe unto you if you are getting rich by providing material support, service, or assistance to the purveyors of torture, for how does it profit a person to gain the whole world but lose his or her soul? Woe unto the politicians who have abused our nation’s fear to find support for torture and who change

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What happens when a group of activists, priests, celebrities, and students risk arrest to protest U.S. foreign policy in Latin America?ON THE LINE is an inside look at the people behind one of the largest nonviolent movements in America today: the movement to close the School of the Americas/WHINSEC, a U.S. Army school that trains Latin American soldiers. In a world where politics, passion, and

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Brilliant report by JohnAllenJr.:By John L Allen Jr DailyCreated Nov 30 2007 - 07:44By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.New YorkIf one were to compile a list of the core concerns of Joseph Ratzinger, his idees fixes over almost sixty years now of theological reflection, it might look something like this:• Truth is not a limit upon freedom, but the condition of freedom reaching its true potential;• Reason and

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Full text of Pope Benedict XVI's second encyclical, Spe Salvi: On Christian HopeSpe Salvi a 'Greatest Hits' collection of core Ratzinger ideas, by John Allen Jr. Nov 30, 2007. National Catholic Reporter

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Go to the blog and read his posts. This is just a sample:"When we contemplate, not the ephemeral regimes of Republican or Democratic flavor, but the powers of global dominance for which they act as marketing representatives, it is almost impossible not to succumb to a sense of futility. In fact, they have labored long and hard to instill this sense of impotence in us, the idea that there is no

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By Cindy WoodenCatholic News ServiceVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christianity is not and never has been a uniquely European phenomenon, and Christians of the West can learn much from the cultural expressions of Eastern Christians, especially those of the early church, Pope Benedict XVI said."Today it is a common opinion that Christianity is a European religion that exported European culture to other

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From Karl Rahner and Herbert Vorgrimler“…in Jesus Christ God has absolutely accepted the finite and communicated himself to it in an absolute manner…”Dictionary of Theology, p. 1From Walter Cardinal Kasper“Jesus is different from John the Baptist. He does not lead a life of withdrawn asceticism apart form the world. He does not cut himself off and retreat into a monastery like the Qumran sect. He

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Do not think that the articles posted, books recommended etc. give any insight into the state of my life or spiritual development. Unfortunately this is 90% head knowledge for me. I have the hardest time integrating any of it into my life and actually living it...["... I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it.......Whoever sets his mind on anything other than

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[art: Michael O'Brien]"We do not know how many more days we have left to live. Consequently, it is better to live one day at a time. We must approach everything with great involvement and with the love that God expects from us. At the same time, we must do everything as if tomorrow we will have to move on and leave it all behind."(Open Wide the Door to Christ, pg. 161)

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[And not a peep from the corporate media...]From VoxNovaThe annual protest at Ft. Benning in Georgia to close the SOA/WHINSEC continues to grow. This past weekend, 25,000 protesters, including Catholic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich, made the trip to Georgia. Read reports here and here.Michael J. Iafrate Says:November 19, 2007 at 10:40 pmStrange, isn’t it, that it is so silent considering

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Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School DistrictTrial transcript: Day 5 ((September 30), PM Session, Part 1John F.Haught, PH.D., called as a witness, having been duly sworn or affirmed, testified as follows:Continue

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"The mature Christian does not expect an all-powerful God to dramatically break into time/space to manipulate nature in marvelous ways. I don't doubt that he could, if he chose to, but that's not how the suffering-servant God works. The earth and its future is a human project. It's on us humans, not God. But nothing we humans do is good unless it's inspired by grace. And that's the key to

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From Jack at "After The Future"November 11, 2007Beyond Liberal & Conservative (Updated)From Frank Rich, "The Coup at Home: Last weekend a new Washington Post-ABC News poll found that the Democratic-controlled Congress and Mr. Bush are both roundly despised throughout the land, and that only 24 percent of Americans believe their country is on the right track. That’s almost as low as the United

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Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice: Navigating the Path to Peace (Theology in Global Perspective) (Paperback)By Mary J. Miller (Iowa and Indiana, USA) - See all my reviews(REAL NAME) "This book may take our breath away." So states the cover blurb from Walter Brueggemann on "Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice: Navigating the Path to Peace," released on April 17, 2007 by Daniel G.

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Monday, November 12, 2007Tagging Myself For a MemeThe So-Called "Extraordinary" MemeI'm tagging myself for this meme for two reasons. The first is that I would never be tagged for it otherwise. You see, the originators and devotees are waiting for people like me to "die off" before they would ever consider it.Second... There really wasn't anything wrong with this meme in principle, but it took a

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From Are Jesuits Catholic? Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a visionary French Jesuit, paleontologist, biologist, and philosopher, who spent the bulk of his life trying to integrate religious experience with natural science, most specifically Christian theology with theories of evolution. In this endeavor he became absolutely enthralled with the possibilities for

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From the blog 'After the Future'October 21, 2007 MZ in response to my "Soft Tryranny" post asked what I thought about boomer culpability in getting us where we are. I'll share a few thoughts here, but what do other boomers think? Non-boomers--what's your take on the responsibility of your elders in getting us all into this fix? I'd say first of all, the boomer generation is no

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Published on Thursday, October 11, 2007 by CommonDreams.org by Nancy Kricorian On September 26, 2007, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton voted yes on the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment that effectively labeled the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a “terrorist organization.” The Revolutionary Guard Corps is the largest branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s military. It is unprecedented in

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By BRENDAN COONEY As scary as it is to watch someone electrocuted for speaking his mind, the most horrifying parts of the Andrew Meyer incident at the University of Florida are the things happening on the periphery. (The video can be seen here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HgrFSHZfD1o) There is the face of the woman on the right of the aisle, staring obediently

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