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As it turns out, it was the elimination of funds for elective abortions from the healthcare bill that finally satisfied conservative Democrats in the house, and got the healthcare bill passed. The persons perhaps most responsible for eliminating the logjam and getting the bill passed were Catholic bishops, long proponents of universal health care and…

When I was born people were still playing Victrolas and 78 rpm records.  My father had a collection of Big Band records– Tommy Dorsey, Glen Miller, Benny Goodman etc. Then there were albums and 45s (i.e. singles), and then 8 tracks and cassettes, and then CDs, and finally MP3s and various variants thereof.  The technology…

George Clooney loves political satire, and here we have yet another film of that ilk. The movie is less than two hours long, but it seems slower as there are stretches in the film that drag.  The cast on the other hand is not a drag– Clooney, Bridges, Spacey, and McGregor and all four men…

‘And the day will come when they beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks…’ Is. 2.4  Culture-making comes in many shapes and sizes, and sometimes the positive act of doing it proves to be not merely a diversion from but an alternative to culture destruction. I must tell you that reading…

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I remember the 60s well.  One of the things that happened in the 60s was that a children’s book got banned from a lot of libraries, perhaps especially in the South.  It was Maurice Sendak’s  Where the Wild Things Are  which came out when I was barely ten. Of course it later won a national…

The man on the far left in this picture, Chief Steve Silverheels, is a minister who lives in Wilmington N.C. not far from my mother.  He is a Christian minister and evangelist. He is also a native American with Mohawk/Iroquois/Seneca ancestry.   If the name Silverheels rings a bell to some of you– it should.  The…

                          I The steam arose from the stream The leaves fell from the tree Weak sun shone on the grass The pattern of frost won’t last.   The chill hung in the air The flowers drooped drab and brown The birds scavenged for food The sky began to brood.   The wind cut through…

The Roman Catholic Church leadership made the headlines twice this past week, once because the Vatican has now opened the door to receiving disgruntled Anglican priests into the fold (without having to give up their wives), and once because certain supposedly Catholic Presidents of African countries have been warned that their behavior just won’t do…

Most of you who know me, know that I did my doctoral thesis on women in the NT with C.K. Barrett at the University of Durham in England. My first three published scholarly books were on this very subject.  One of the reasons I did that thirty some years ago was because of the controversy…
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