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(4 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 11, 2023
"Argentina 1985": Its Untold Story That Oscar Viewers Should Know Too bad this Oscar nominated film did not offer a fuller account of the horrors it depicts. Its omissions obscure hard truths about U.S. history.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 10, 2019
Support for "Terrorist" Heroes Is Part of the Judeo-Christian Tradition SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's first reading raises the question: Are the real terrorists the forces of empire or those who resist them?
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265844 views)

(17 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 7, 2019
Report from France: "Yellow Vest" Revolutionary Unity and Its Lesson for Americans France's "Yellow Vests" suggest that it's possible for both left and right extremes of our own political spectrum to cooperate even on divisive issues like abortion, gun control, immigration, violence and terrorism.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, March 22, 2015
(Sunday Homily) "Citizenfour": Keeping God's Law through Civil Disobedience Today's liturgy of the word is about obeying conscience rather than the written law. It's about someone like Ed Snowden -- a 30 something law-breaker who rejected absolute security in favor of opposing the authorities of his time.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265844 views)

(34 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 29, 2016
Monday's Debate: We Should All Be Embarrassed by These Liars & Frauds Our embarrassing "debate" system invites grown adults to stand before 100 million people to brag about themselves, quarrel like children, and tell obvious lies while ignoring the nation's real problems. Meanwhile, those willing to address those concerns seriously are excluded from the stage with their solutions unheard.

(17 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 4, 2018
A Very Sad Independence Day The following reflection comes out of a heated family discussion. It somehow seems appropriate for the 4th of July when everyone is celebrating our Founding Fathers and our great democratic tradition. I beg to differ

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 24, 2020
The Great Health Market Crash of 2019: Will There Be Breadlines Too? Remember reading about the "Great Stock Market Crash of 1929?" Well, in the same way our grandchildren will read about the "Great Health Market Crash of 2019." And the latter will impress them as more devastating than the former.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 2, 2020
The Enlightened Jesus (Like Us) Rejects the Faith of His Childhood SUNDAY HOMILY: Could it be that it is the human vocation to be loyal church members until (like Jesus) we realize our religion's hypocrisy, its cooperation with oppression and its need of reform?
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265844 views)

(13 comments) SHARE        Monday, September 12, 2016
"Sausage Party:" A Surprising Take-Down of Capitalism At its deepest level, "Sausage Party" is trenchantly critical of a highly theologized capitalist system. But leave the kids at home for this one.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Weaponizing Cuba against Bernie: Childish Thinking and A Family Experience Cuba's social system as experienced recently by our daughter is unprecedented in the impoverished world of former colonies. No other victim of colonialism has been as committed to caring for its people, its children, or its environment as Cuba. Castro remains a hero of the Global South.

(17 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 3, 2020
Return to Normality Should Be the Last Thing We Want SUNDAY HOMILY: The coronavirus has shed a bright light on the corruption of what we call "normal." We stand before what Jesus calls a "gate" and Arundhati Roy calls a "portal" leading to revolutionary change.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265844 views)

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 22, 2013
The Rich Are Funny (Sunday Homily) Jesus loved telling stories that made fun of rich people. He's at it again in this morning's gospel. Jesus' listeners would have found today's story especially entertaining. After all it featured an accountant who cheated his wealthy employer. And then the rich guy ends up appreciating the accountant's dishonesty.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265844 views)

(18 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 6, 2019
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 (28 Articles, 44943 views)

(5 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Borders Are for Suckers Like Us Never for the Rich: Tear Down That Wall Borders should be the same for everyone, regardless of wealth and power. If capital has the right to disregard borders, so should labor. If the workers cannot cross them, neither should rich investors.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 16, 2019
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.
Series: Marianne Williamson for President (28 Articles, 44943 views)

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Lenten Reflection: the first Ash Wednesday after the pope's resignation Today is Ash Wednesday. What might that mean for activists who are aspiring to follow in the footsteps of the great prophet, dissident, teacher of unconventional wisdom, story-teller, mystic, and movement founder, Yeshua of Nazareth?

(35 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 30, 2020
Beware: Conspiracy Theorists May Be Prophetically Correct SUNDAY HOMILY: Can critical thinkers really get away with classifying those we disagree with as "bad guys" or as "the enemy?"
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265844 views)

(11 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 19, 2019
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 (28 Articles, 44943 views), Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265844 views)

(6 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 18, 2020
What Amy Coney Barrett Missed in Pope Francis' "Fratelli Tutti" Imagine how different last week's confirmation hearing might have been had Judge Barrett embraced the teachings of "Fratelli Tutti" whose positions she and other Republican Catholics so vehemently reject.
Series: Sleeping Through the TPP Coup: Why a Trans-National Corporate Power Grab That Hurts Almost Everyone Is Arousing So Little Outcry (6 Articles, 11269 views)

(16 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 4, 2023
The Mainstream Media Finally Discovers Noam Chomsky: For All the Wrong Reasons Cancel Culture shifted into overdrive last week when "The Wall Street Journal" reported that Noam Chomsky had met several times with Jeffrey Epstein. Why?

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