BurningbirdAKMA writes about his 16th anniversary of being a priest: Much of the difference I experience can be attributed very simply to the social construction of identity: people treat a priest differently from the way they treat a generally-pious person graduate school. (One day, a muffler shop even gave me a clergy discount.) Some of the difference […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m tired and should go to bed. Today was not one of my better days. However, my cat sensed that my day was poor and quietly curled up my arms, rubbing her head against my chin, purring like mad. I took her for a walk on our deck, and she […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Imagine my delight when I woke up this morning and found the following comment attached to one of my old postings, Blast them all and let God sort them out.: I don’t expect Arabs to be humiliated. . .I expect them to be dead, deader than dead. God doesn’t need to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Shannon writes, people are mean in response to a particularly nasty posting and related comments. She’s right: people can be mean, practicing random acts of meanness. Sometimes, the acts are deliberate — nasty little cuts inflicted from the safety and distance that this disconnected environment provides. Mostly, though, the acts aren’t deliberate as […]
Rosa Parks, the heart of the civil rights movement, died at her home Monday. When the KKK tried to adopt part of the I-55 freeway outside of St. Louis under the highway cleanup adoption plan, which would force the state into acknowledging the group’s effort with a sign, the Highway Department responded by naming that stretch […]