Computer problems

Not that I’ve been posting much in December, but I’ll likely be offline for some time. Just after Christmas I had an incident involving a glass of water and my laptop, so I’ll be online only sporadically at best for the next week or two while I wait for it to get back from the [...]

Alleluia, he has come!

Today’s scripture from the Lectionary - Year A:
Old Testament reading:
The people walking in darkness
have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness
a light has dawned.
You have enlarged the nation
and increased their joy;
they rejoice before you
as people rejoice at the harvest,
as soldiers rejoice
when dividing the plunder.
For as in the day of Midian’s [...]

Apparently, I’m an apostate

Is that anything like being an apostle, I wonder?
According to the people at Christian Research Network I get categorized as “apostate” because of my affinity for Catholic thought and being linked with an emerging church-related site (Jesus Manifesto). It seems, based on what little I was able to glean from the not-entirely-coherent post [...]

Derrick Jensen quote

If monetary value is attached to something it will be exploited until it’s gone. That’s what happens when you convert living beings to cash. That conversion from living trees to lumber, schools of cod to fish sticks, and onward to numbers on a ledger, is the central process of our economic system. — Derrick Jensen

Rudy Giuliani scares the hell out of me

That is all - no trenchant analysis, no lengthy exposition. Just mentioning that Giuliani scares the hell out of me. I really think, given his autocratic methods while Mayor of New York and the decidedly neoconservative bent of his foreign policy advice team (including Norman Podhoretz who apparently prays for war with Iran) that if [...]

Greetings from Champaign

I’m writing this post from St. Jude Catholic Worker House in Champaign, Illinois. Yesterday I came up with some people from my house for a roundtable on radical Christianity and exploring Peter Maurin’s principles of personalism and the 3 C’s for the possibility of working to create a better world. St. Jude sponsored the roundtable, [...]