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Mike Rivage-Seul is a liberation theologian and former Roman Catholic priest. Retired in 2014, he taught at Berea College in Kentucky for 40 years where he directed Berea's Peace and Social Justice Studies Program.Mike blogs at
http://mikerivageseul.wordpress.com/
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This Is What A Good Samaritan Looks Like (Sunday Homily) Scott Warren is a Good Samaritan. For that reason, the "Christian" Trump administration is threatening him with 20 years in prison. His specific crime? He provided food, water, lodging and hospitality to people our border guards would rather see die of thirst and exposure.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (96 Articles, 145910 views)
How Marianne Williamson Won Thursday's Debate (Sunday Homily) Marianne Williamson is a wise and courageous woman. She knows that a whole new language -- a new way of speaking -- is necessary to "evolutionize" political discourse. It's not dependent on bombast, monologue, braggadocio, volume, bullying, or clap-trap. Instead, it's dependent on listening, cooperation, appreciation of others, and (dare one say it) love.
Series: Marianne Williamson for President (13 Articles, 17659 views), Sunday Homilies for Progressives (96 Articles, 145910 views)
What You Should Know About Marianne Williamson Before Thursday's Debate Marianne Williamson's voice for justice joins with those of human civilization's giants including the most acclaimed spiritual leaders everyone professes to admire. Among them are the Buddha, the Jewish prophets, Jesus the Christ, Mohammed, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, the Dali Lama and Pope Francis.
U.S. Concentration Camps Are Already Worse than Hitler's U.S. concentration camps are every bit as brutal as Hitler's. In fact, the number of deaths connected with the U.S. system of concentration and extermination dwarfs the iconic number of six million incinerated, gassed, shot, or otherwise executed under Hitler.
Candidate Marianne Williamson Reduces All Of Our Problems to One (Trinity Sunday Homily) Marianne Williamson will soon be on the debate stage with other presidential hopefuls. Uniquely, she'll explain how 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 = ONE.
Marianne Williamson: The Most Radical Candidate (Pentecost Sunday Homily) Imagine governing our country and the world according to the Spirit described in today's readings. They are crystal-clear in their contradiction of what we've been led to accept as normal and unavoidable in the realm of politics.
Series: Marianne Williamson for President (13 Articles, 17659 views), Sunday Homilies for Progressives (96 Articles, 145910 views)
Marianne Williamson Peace and War (Memorial Day Sunday Homily) Last week Marianne Williamson surpassed the minimum 1% support in 3 separate national polls required for her to participate in the presidential debates. Nate Silver has identified her as a major candidate. This homily compares her position on war and peace with that of Jesus as described in today's liturgical readings.
Jesus Calls Followers to Practice What Marianne Williamson Calls a "Politics of Love" SUNDAY HOMILY: Marianne Williamson recently achieved the 65,000 unique contributions required for her to appear on the debate stage with other Democratic presidential candidates. But now that more than 20 are running, it's necessary for her to poll at 1% in national opinion polls. She's close to achieving that goal too, but needs financial help to get her name and identity before the public. Please donate @ Marianne 2020.com
Series: Marianne Williamson for President (13 Articles, 17659 views), Sunday Homilies for Progressives (96 Articles, 145910 views)
Give A Dollar Today to Help Marianne Williamson Get on the Debate Stage Marianne Williamson is by no means a lightweight. She offers a deep philosophical (and, yes, spiritual) approach to politics beyond the capability of any other candidate. Her voice needs to be heard. It promises to shift the on-stage conversation to unexpectedly profound levels.
Series: Marianne Williamson for President (13 Articles, 17659 views), Sunday Homilies for Progressives (96 Articles, 145910 views)
Mike Pompeo's Cynicism vs. Marianne Williamson's Politics of Love SUNDAY HOMILY: Marianne Williamson is running on a platform holding that there is no distinction between personal and public morality. That position was shared by Jesus, Gandhi, and most of history's sages whom we profess to admire.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (96 Articles, 145910 views), Marianne Williamson for President (13 Articles, 17659 views)
Notre Dame in Flames: Its Image Evokes the Resurrection Our World Requires SUNDAY HOMILY: It was religion in flames. It was a reminder of the conflagration engulfing our very planet. It should have clarified the relevance of the resurrection story that Christians across the world defiantly celebrate this Easter Sunday.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (96 Articles, 145910 views), Marianne Williamson for President (13 Articles, 17659 views)
Why I'm Supporting Marianne Williamson's Run for President LENTEN SUNDAY HOMILY: Because of her more than 30 years of work as a spiritual teacher, we can know Marianne Williamson more deeply than any other presidential candidate.
Series: Marianne Williamson for President (13 Articles, 17659 views), Sunday Homilies for Progressives (96 Articles, 145910 views)
Don't Be Cowed by the Right: Support the Green New Deal The Green New Deal represents the best available response to the climate-change crisis. It deserves the full support of progressives. We must stop bending over backwards to convince reactionaries that we're not "crazy socialists."
Give Up Devil-Worship for Lent: Work and Pray for the Defeat of U.S. Empire SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's Gospel implies that Jesus' followers should no more support their country's foreign policy than if it were run by Hitler or the devil himself.
The NYT Casts Doubt on the Green New Deal's Radical Objectives Last Sunday the NYT editors actually damned the Green New Deal with faint praise. They also endorsed remedies for the climate crisis much less comprehensive and closer to what corporate America favors than to the broad worker-friendly recommendations of the Markey-Cortez proposal.
Marianne Williamson's Campaign Harnesses the Miraculous Power of Critical Consciousness Marianne Williamson portrays her 30- year career as a spiritual teacher as uniquely qualifying her for addressing the fundamentally spiritual problem beneath our country's current dysfunction. No one else, she says, demonstrates that qualification or of even recognizes the problem as such.
Series: Marianne Williamson for President (13 Articles, 17659 views)
Though Americans Claim to Love Jesus, they Hate His Politics SUNDAY HOMILY: Judging by its dominant ideology, America is the contemporary embodiment of the Anti-Christ. Our nation's approach to the world directly contradicts Christ's teaching on every point. It is the incarnation of evil.
Series: Marianne Williamson for President (13 Articles, 17659 views), Sunday Homilies for Progressives (96 Articles, 145910 views)
Billionaires Threaten a Hostile Takeover of the Catholic Church SUNDAY HOMILY: Jesus' teaching contradicts our culture's worship of the rich. We think of them as heroic entrepreneurs. Jesus sees them as impoverished wretches. We see the poor as losers. Jesus sees them as objects of God's special favor.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (96 Articles, 145910 views), Marianne Williamson for President (13 Articles, 17659 views)
President Marianne Williamson?? Yes, That Miracle Can Happen! SUNDAY HOMILY: Marianne Williamson actually dares to espouse the same solutions to social justice problems as Jesus of Nazareth, And for this, many who claim to be Christians will predictably reject her.
Series: Marianne Williamson for President (13 Articles, 17659 views)
Marianne Williamson for President! She's a Liberation Theologian Marianne Williamson has a larger social media following than any Democratic candidate declared so far. She proposes addressing the spiritual hunger whose satisfaction demands the healing of America's very soul. No other candidate dares even mention that need.
Series: Marianne Williamson for President (13 Articles, 17659 views)
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