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(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 12, 2015
Charlie Hebdo: Porquoi? Even Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Natanyahu, fresh from butchering 500 Muslim children in Gaza solemnly marched against the criminal barbarism of killing 12 westerners.

(18 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 9, 2015
Twenty Lessons I learned from 40 Years of Teaching Social Justice During the fall semester of 2014, I taught a Religion course at Berea College called "Poverty and Social Justice." The course was personally significant because it rounded off 40 years of teaching at Berea, where my first class convened in 1974 -- exactly 40 years ago. Please allow me to share what I've learned over that time.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 29, 2014
"The Interview": Dumb and Dumber Dis Langley "The Interview" is a more effective lampoon of U.S. culture, politics, and the CIA than an indictment of North Korea. Could it be that Sony's CEO is a double agent?

(10 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 21, 2014
(Sunday Homily) The Torture Report: Cheney Channels King David in the Struggle over Historical Narrative It seems most "American" Christians (80% of the U.S. population) agree with Mr. Cheney that what the Romans did to Jesus was not torture.
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(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 14, 2014
(Sunday Homily) Towards a Counter-Cultural Christmas: Becoming Nobody How are we to celebrate Christmas in this year of extreme income gaps, torture, racism and militarized police?
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(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 6, 2014
(Sunday Homily) Black Lives, Muslim Lives Matter: Obama's as Guilty as Wilson & Pantaleo President Obama, Eric Holder, and their minions are as guilty as Daren Wilson and Daniel Panteleo. All of them kill with impunity. They answer to no one. They refuse to investigate much less prosecute extra-judicial executions.
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(7 comments) SHARE        Thursday, November 27, 2014
Thanksgiving Table Talk: Immigration Reform I'm not looking forward to Thanksgiving. Like most everyone else, I've got this Fox News brother-in-law, and he gives me indigestion. This year he'll probably be complaining about immigration reform.

(17 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 23, 2014
(Sunday Homily) The Islamic Caliphate and the Final Judgment of "America" Think about this for a minute: In the eyes of Jesus' executioners, today's "Solemnity of Jesus Christ King of the Universe" would be as unlikely as some future world celebrating the "Solemnity of Osama bin Laden, King of the Universe."
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(13 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 16, 2014
(Sunday Homily) The Parable of the Talents: Pope Francis Buries His Pope Francis is like the servant in today's parable who buried his talent in the ground refusing to invest it in a corrupt system that invariably widens the gap between the rich and the poor. That's why the pope is our world's most effective moral leader.
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(6 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Pope Francis and the Revolutionary Significance of the Lateran Basilica St. John Lateran offers archeological evidence of the tragic moment in history when the would-be followers of a poor working man sold their souls to Jesus' executioner.

(11 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 9, 2014
(Sunday Homily) Why Do They Hate Us? Jesus' "9/11 Assault" on the Temple The religious and political leaders of Jesus' day probably wondered about the origin of his apparent hate for them and their religion. Why would a good Jew symbolically "raze" the temple and predict with apparent prophetic delight its actual destruction? "Why does he hate us?" I'm sure they wondered.
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(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, November 6, 2014
Without Ideologies: Reflections on the Mid-Term Results The last five two-term presidents -- Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II --all faced in their final two years, a Congress with both houses controlled by the opposition. Yet all five finished strongly with quite high approval ratings (except for Bush II) and significant accomplishments during what was supposed to be their "lame duck" years.
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(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 2, 2014
(Sunday Homily) Contemplating My Own Death, Contemplating Yours The Day of the Dead invites us all -- "believers" or not -- to recall those who have gone before us to "rest in the sleep of peace" and to ready ourselves for The Great Transformation by looking death square in the face.
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(16 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 26, 2014
(Sunday Homily) Usury More Clearly Contradicts God's Law than Abortion! How much interest can be charged before the rate becomes usurious? Today's liturgy of the word suggests an answer: "Zero," "Nada," "Zilch,"none at all!
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(7 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Islam & Women: Muhammad, Pedophilia, Gold-Digging, Cars & Burkas (Pt. 4 of 4 on Islam as Liberation Theology) Muhammad was a champion of women far ahead of his time. In general, women recognized him as a prophet on their side.
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(11 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 19, 2014
Islam, Violence & Double Standards (Pt.3 of 4 on Islam as Liberation Theology) The West wants no part of people who defend themselves against western depredations. Meanwhile western Christianists claim not only the right of self-defense but even the prerogative of "preemptive strikes."
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(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 16, 2014
Muhammad as Liberationist Prophet (Pt. 2 of 4 on Islam as Liberation Theology) The second in a series of four on Islam as liberation theology. This posting recognizes Muhammad as champion of the poor and oppressed.
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(13 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 12, 2014
Islam as Liberation Theology: Muhammad as a Prophet for Our Times (Part 1 of 4) "Islamists" are part of world-wide movement of poor people who use their religious traditions as a force for liberation from external neo-colonial control.
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(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 4, 2014
War Mongering at the New York Times: There's always a "Why" The gentle editors of the New York Times (speaking for their employers in the military-industrial complex) can't stand what they see in the mirror. So they project their own "hearts of darkness" onto the U.S. enemy du jour.

(10 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 28, 2014
(Sunday Homily) U.S. Doublespeak Is More Threatening to the World than ISIS or Khorasan One of these days Khorasan's heat-seeking missiles will find the rear end of your plane, and that will be the end of you. And those firing the rockets will be justified in doing so -- if they follow the insane logic behind Mr. Obama's latest justification for bombing his seventh Muslim country in six years.
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