» Right Wing Role Playing
29/07/22 19:32 from Scott Paeths Semi-Daily Blog
One of my favorite lines about Dungeons & Dragons came from an episode of The X-Files. In the episode, an author is interviewing a young man about a case Meulder and Scully were investigating. After he relates his story, the...
» Who Are the Leaders of Progressive Christianity
28/07/22 18:18 from Scott Paeths Semi-Daily Blog
Rev. Sekou rocking out on NPR Over at Patheos, Kieth Giles has compiled a list of who, in his estimation, qualify as the leaders of Progressive Christianity. The list includes a number of very prominent figures in the movement. At...
» Profile: Louisiana Representative Bobby Jindal
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» The Cult of Guns and Christian Nationalism
09/06/22 12:25 from Scott Paeths Semi-Daily Blog
Thomas Lacaque writes about the intersection of gun cultism and religious nationalism in Religion Dispatches, noting that the AR-15 in particular is marketed to apocalyptic Christians with specifically biblical imagery. This is a screens...
» The Worst People on Earth Keep Finding Each Other
07/06/22 19:35 from Scott Paeths Semi-Daily Blog
The other day I quipped on how funny it is that, after Milo Yiannopoulos and his minions worked so hard to make life miserable for DePaul faculty members several years ago, he was now hawking Christian kitsch on the Home...
» Revenge of the Son of the Return of the Blog
06/06/22 16:23 from Scott Paeths Semi-Daily Blog
I appear to be at that point at which I arrive every year or so when I strive to recommit myself to regularly posting on this blog. You know I'm at that point because I usually post something like this,...
» Michael Oren on Who Has a Right to the West Bank
14/05/19 00:32 from Scott Paeths Semi-Daily Blog
Getty Images Michael Oren, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, was recently interviewed by The New Yorker. During his interview, the reporter pressed Oren on the question of what right Israelis have over the areas the current...
» James Baldwin and Reinhold Niebuhr in Conversation
08/05/19 16:08 from Scott Paeths Semi-Daily Blog
A few days ago, Fred Clark at Slacktivist posted a video of James Baldwin and Reinhold Niebuhr being interviewed in the wake of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing. Fred also points to a Commonweal interview where Niebuhr comments on the...
» Jurgen Moltmann and the Problem of Authority
08/05/19 15:37 from Scott Paeths Semi-Daily Blog
Cameron Coombe, a doctoral student at the University of Otago in New Zealand draws our attention to this passage from Moltmann: I grew up during the German dictatorship and as a young man spent five years in barracks and prison...
» St. Hereticus and the Gospel of Americanism
03/05/19 03:36 from Scott Paeths Semi-Daily Blog
Travis McMacken (of the excellent Helmut Gollwitzer book), reminds us of Robert McAffee Brown's alter ego St. Hereticus. For many years, St. Hereticus was a regular contributor to Christianity and Crisis, lampooning American Christianity...
» The Morality of Annexation
24/04/19 13:48 from Scott Paeths Semi-Daily Blog
Over the past several days, a controversy has arisen over an article written in The Federalist by Jason Hill, a colleague of mine at DePaul University. Hill is a professor of Philosophy specializing in ethics, and the title of the...
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» Helping the Poor
27/09/15 13:10 from A Religious Liberal Blog
Should the government do a lot more to reduce poverty? 41% of Mainliners 39% of Evangelicals 47% of Catholics 59% of the Nones said Yes Should the government do a lot more to reduce the gap between the rich and poor 28% of Mainliners 30%...
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» Royce on Original Sin
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Royce presents a picture of our beginnings as originally a mix of instinctual reactions to our environment. Such reactions are neither informed by some broader purpose nor are they related to each other in a way, which is reflective of a...
» My Choices this November
01/11/14 23:16 from A Religious Liberal Blog
Even though it is never a surprise who I plan to support during elections I'll share my vote and the reasoning behind my choices. In years past I have voted Green, Republican, and Democrat but this year given the issues and how the parti...
» Faith-Rooted Organizing Conference
23/01/14 23:09 from Latino Leadership Circle
At this time in NYC history, faith leaders are poised to make an important contribution to public life. Faith leaders are great at gathering people for worship, but now it's time to gather people for social change!In contrast to instrume...
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» LLC Vocation Care Retreat
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The Latino Leadership Circle in partnership with the Fund for Theological Education is pleased to announce the first ACTS Alumni Vocation Care Retreat! This will be an opportunity to catch up with former ACTS classmates and reflect on Go...
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» Greatful for support of domestic partnerships
05/02/13 23:17 from A Religious Liberal Blog
I’m writing to express appreciation to the Sheridan Press and to Sheridan’s legislative delegation in their support of HB 168, which would have recognized domestic partnerships in Wyoming. This legislation would have extended important l...
» FOOD FOR ANTI-POVERTY ACTION
24/01/13 20:53 from FaithInSociety
My friends on the Festival of Spirituality and Peace team will have a stand under at St John's Church, Edinburgh (corner of Princes Street and Lothian Road) on Friday 25th January 2013, handing out porridge to anyone who cares to s...
» Latino Leadership Circle Launches ACTS 2.0
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The Latino Leadership Circle will be holding ACTS Leadership Training in New York, New Jersey and Florida in 2013. The New York and New Jersey courses will be rolling out the new ACTS 2.0 curriculum! A revamped version of the...
» 'STREET PORRIDGE SALE' IN EDINBURGH
10/12/12 12:45 from FaithInSociety
I plan to join the good folk at St John's Church in Edinburgh, the team behind the Festival of Spirituality and Peace , and the Streetwork homelessness charity, who will be holding a 'street porridge sale' from 8am to 1pm on Wednesday 12...
» Post Election Pastor's Column
15/11/12 22:26 from A Religious Liberal Blog
“All this is from God...who gave us the ministry of reconciliation” 2 Corinthians 5:18 Another election has come and gone. Some of the candidates I voted for won. And some of my candidates lost. Soon I’ll be visiting family for Thanksgiv...
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» "A Respite from Politically-Oriented Blogging"
13/10/12 15:40 from Catholics in the Public Square
As you may have noticed, 'Catholics in the Public Square' has been quiet of late. There are a number of reasons: What started out as a collective blogging project has, over the years and for various reasons, diminished in size, frequency...
» THE 'FIRST SUPPER' IN EDINBURGH
04/10/12 19:11 from FaithInSociety
The new Centre for Living Christianity , dubbed CLiC for short, is starting up in Edinburgh this weekend with an informal social event reflecting its “relaxed but thoughtful” approach to exploring religious faith in a sceptical age. CLiC...
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» WHAT TO SEE IN EDINBURGH
08/08/12 09:20 from FaithInSociety
I'm involved in the 2012 Festival of Spirituality and Peace , both as Media Coordinator, and as a speaker at two events. The first is on Disorganised Religion (Thursday 9th August, 5.45pm at St John's Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh), ...
» EXPLORING 'DISORGANISED RELIGION'
06/08/12 05:42 from FaithInSociety
We live in an era where people are inquisitive about spirituality, but hugely distrustful or even hostile towards ‘organised religion’, especially in its Christian forms. But there are strong anti-institutional and non-hierarchical tradi...
» Faith and Academics Conference
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» A conservative, moderate and liberal walk into a bar...
22/03/12 15:10 from A Lie a Day
Tags Romney, Etch-a-scetch, liar
» Mississippi, Evolution and Stupidity.
13/03/12 15:20 from A Lie a Day
A fairly large number of member of the online progressive community have taken note of some polling information comming out of Mississipi and Alabama . One data point has gotten frequent mention, a majority of the republicans in these st...
» Bad night for Mittens
08/03/12 20:53 from A Lie a Day
The Frothy one was able to win too many states and keep most of the others too close. As a result the parade of clowns marchs on, all the way to Tampa it looks like. Great news for late night comics and Obama Tags 2012, election, Re...
» Kirk Cameron, America's Idiot Crybaby
08/03/12 19:38 from A Lie a Day
Last week Kurt opened his mouth and removed all doubt about his idiocy. He decided that yet another verbal attack on gays was just what the world needed. So he decided to make a bunch of unsubstantiated and dubious claims about...
» Gotta Love SC Republicans
05/03/12 20:46 from A Lie a Day
The crazy in the folks is strong. Now the Laurens Republican Party has develep a code that must be signed prior to joining up. Before you can join the Laurens County Republican Party in South Carolina and get on the primary bal...
» Rush Tries to Cover his Oversized Ass
05/03/12 18:56 from A Lie a Day
Rush spent most of last week attacking the woman who testified to congress about the importance of getting contraception included in insurance policies. He engaged in hours of attacks on this woman, he called her a Slut and many other le...
» The war on Secularism
02/03/12 19:18 from A Lie a Day
At its core the ongoing culture war should be seen as a war against Secularism. A secular world view is reguarlly denounce by most of the right wing, from the Pope to Rick Santorum to Pat Robinson, as the ultimate evil. B...
» Republicans sure hate women
02/03/12 19:18 from A Lie a Day
As noted by Alternet : 1. "Sex-Crazed Co-Eds..." 2. "Lavishly contracepted." 3. "What do you expect from a woman driver?" 4. Women in the military should "expect" to be raped. 5. In my day, "gals" used to put an "aspirin between their kn...
» Andrew Breitbart has died
01/03/12 14:24 from A Lie a Day
And following my grandmothers advice, I have nothing to say. Tags Andrew Breitbart
» Religious Freedom and the 1st Amendment
27/02/12 19:12 from A Lie a Day
Something from our 1st President: : Gentlemen: While I received with much satisfaction your address replete with expressions of esteem, I rejoice in the opportunity of assuring you that I shall always retain grateful remembrance of the c...
» Rick Santorum is simply nuts
27/02/12 17:26 from A Lie a Day
But to be honost, so is the rest of this years GOP field (Most to a lesser extent, but Ron Paul may give Rick a run for the fruit cake). Tags Election, GOP, Santorum
» Even Republican Watch Dogs Lie
24/02/12 19:27 from A Lie a Day
Brent Bozell is a self proclaimed 'fact checker' who standard song and dance is to attack the liberal media with arguments tainted with modest twists, untruths, omissions etc. Overall he has done a fair job of avoiding telling easy to sp...
» S.C. Looks Into Voter Fraud, Finds None
24/02/12 14:42 from A Lie a Day
South Carolina joined the long list of Republican controlled states that passed voter suppression laws under the guise of an anti voter fraud law. The argument was voter fraud is fairly rampant and unless drastic action was taken our fut...
» Rugby This Weekend
23/02/12 15:11 from A Lie a Day
Just a heads up, 6 Nations rugby is being played this weekend. We have Italy at Ireland and Wales at England on Saturday, with a Sunday match of France at Scotland. If you have access to BBC-A they will be showing the Wales England game ...
» Santorum's success confirms my view of Republicans.
22/02/12 15:40 from A Lie a Day
I have a rather depressing view of the Republican Party of these United States. I see it as authoritarian, reactionary, anti-science, anti-woman, theocratic, racist, militaristic, paranoid and cowardly. On occasion, I have looked at...
» Less Government Intervention?
21/02/12 14:01 from A Lie a Day
The fine folks in the Republican Party (please include the the Tea Party and the rest of the conservative movement) are always screaming about wanting a smaller less intrusive government. But the actions of the GOP, what they support, wh...
» Climate, weather, dishonesty and stupidity.
21/02/12 12:02 from A Lie a Day
Last winter the US experanced a massive snow storm, snowpocalypse-2011 . For a few days much of the the ground in the US was white; Schools and airports were closed and in areas where snow is rare, life slowed to a stop fo...
» Be Careful What You Ask For
16/02/12 14:30 from A Lie a Day
The Militia movement has always has a presence in South Carolina. It is to be expected, we have a pro gun culture, we hold a hyper authoritarian view on society, we do not like the federal government and we are, as a state and individual...
» Why Now
15/02/12 15:52 from A Lie a Day
Over at Crooks and Liars they are featuring a video of Republican senator Jeff Sessions whining about the nation debt. The folks there make a very good point, why now. Durring the period from 2000-2008, when the debt of the nation ...