Juxtaposition: Catholics vs Bishops
Offered without comment: Occupy Catholics & Catholics United protest the Ryan budget: “Were you there when they crucified the poor?” Bishops don’t have time to discuss poverty “Archbishop Charles Chaput told me in early November, along with an audience at…
Trayvon Martin and the progressive Christian response to violence
“We have become a nation in which children have become expendable. Trayvon Martin is just the most recent example.” – Charles Pierce, “Trayvon Martin and the End of Excuses” The murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26 by George…
Five Years Later: Of Faith & Fire
The beginning of July is always a busy time in Bloomington, but during my time here it’s also been a sadly violent time of year. Five years ago in July, someone threw a makeshift firebomb through the window of the…
Vanity Fair’s A A Gill visits the Creation Museum
Faith without mystery, without question & doubt, and without metaphor is no longer alive – it’s just kitsch. At least, that’s my takeaway from this piece, and it explains why so much Christian rock is terrible. Clipped from www.vanityfair.com It…
About the #pX Hashtag
While browsing through my friends’ updates on Twitter, I was struck by the lack of a hashtag to aggregate all the smart and provocative content that Christian liberals were creating. After checking with a few influential Twitterers to make sure…