Geez magazine — which is rapidly becoming My New Favorite Website®, has a contest and you should enter: 30 More Sermons You’d Never Hear in Church. It goes something like this: Let’s hear from closet agnostics and Bible school dropouts, uncertain intellectuals and open-minded evangelists, incendiary pacifists, unapologetic atheists and good old-fashioned preachers who have… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Spiritual practice
Virginia woman ends controversy over the burial of the suspected Boston bomber
A Virginia woman has arranged for the transport and burial of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. She said the Massachusetts protests over the suspect’s burial showed “America at its worst.”… Continue Reading
Republican Jesus says:
And thanks, DickG., for the link.… Continue Reading
If you’ve nothing better to do…
…I’m speaking at Congregational Church of South Glastonbury about hunger and other issues of poverty. The conversation, which is free and open to the public, starts at 7 p.m. today, in the church’s social hall. Come one, come all.… Continue Reading
Solidarity overcomes divisiveness
Come join your old friends — and some you haven’t met yet — at “Solidarity Overcoming Divisiveness,” a community conversation that starts at 6:30 p.m. on May 15 at the Franciscan Center for Urban Ministry of St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church in Hartford. Bring a dessert or snack. And let us know you’re coming at by… Continue Reading
Jesus was a hipster?
Why the hell not? The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brooklyn has launched a new ad campaign that suggests Jesus was the original — this being Brooklyn — hipster. And that’s cool. I have it on good authority that Jesus was a hillbilly. And an African. And a woman. … Continue Reading
Islamophobe converts. To Islam.
Amoud Van Doorn, a committed anti-Islam Dutchman, began reading the Qur’an so that he could better argue his point. And then he converted to Islam. And thanks, Rabia, for the link.… Continue Reading
When you have a prayer service in Boston:
Where do you put the atheists? Here is what Pres. Obama said at yesterday’s multi-faith service for Boston.… Continue Reading
Come to a service of healing
Interfaith leaders of Greater Hartford invite the community to a prayer service of healing from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Islamic Association of Greater Hartford (the Berlin Mosque) at 1781 Berlin Turnpike in Berlin. The service is dedicated to the people affected by Monday’s Boston bombings that killed three and injured scores more. “Our thoughts and prayers… Continue Reading
Obamas go to Easter services; religious right still unhappy
In the Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t department, the Obama family went to an Episcopal church on Easter, and heard a sermon during which the Rev. Luis Leon (verbally) spanked the religious right. In short, he said: It drives me crazy when the captains of the Religious Right are always calling us… Continue Reading