My partner Tina came home from the school where teaches today with the results of the Youth Leadership Initiative’s 2008 Mock Election. Both her school and my son Zack’s school are in the same Independent School District here in Texas (Keller ISD in Tarrant County) and both of their classes voted along with the rest [...]
Archive for October, 2008
And The Children Shall Lead Them
Posted in The Political Life, The Spiritual Life on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An election eve sermon from a passing saint
Posted in The Political Life, The Spiritual Life on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The lastest issue of The Church of the Larger Fellowship, Unitarian Universalist QUEST has reprinted an election sermon from Forrest Church, one of the UUA’s living saints, called Hope and Fear: An Election Day Sermon. The sermon is from October of 1992, but could be from this week as the themes it hits are about [...]
On not becoming the Monster
Posted in The Political Life on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Election day is Tuesday, less than a week away. The subdivision where I live is one of those places with a HOA or Home Owners Association and part of the HOA agreement is no political signs. But about a week and half ago the McCain/Palin lawn signs popped up all over my neighborhood as if [...]
The hate-Driven, fear-driven, ignorance-driven life of Rick Warren
Posted in The Political Life, The Spiritual Life on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Either way, it’s all in the same homophobic place. And it’s not helpful. Evangelical, pastor of Saddleback Church in CA and author of the The Purpose Driven Life and the The Purpose Driven Church, Pastor Rick Warren came out (pun intended) this past week in support of California’s proposition 8, banning gay marriage:
For 5,000 years, [...]
I'm a Mac, I'm pro Gay rights, I'm No on 8 in CA
Posted in The Political Life on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a Mac user and I was delighted to learn that Apple has come out very publicly in support of Equal Marriage in California. They publicly posted this on their hot Apple news feeds on Oct. 24.
No on Prop 8
October 24, 2008
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the [...]
It ain't no secret: I'm not a fan of The Secret
Posted in The Spiritual Life on October 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have a bone to pick with The Secret. A couple of them, actually. I’m sure you’ve heard of the Secret by now. The Secret is really no secret. It’s a marketing ploy by an Australian film maker named Rhonda Byrne and it’s been very successful. Being Unitarian Universalists, we have no creed or dogma, [...]
Now let's see, what did these "debates" remind me of?
Posted in The Political Life on October 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ah yes, T.V. Land, staged joint media appearances. I’ve had the sneaking, suspicious feeling that I’ve watched it all before, heard it all before, now I remember…
Theologian Laureate for Obama
Posted in The Political Life, The Spiritual Life on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
America’s most highly paid theologian preaches on the American Reclamation Project for Obama in Ohio (he should’ve played Youngstown):
The previously unpublished op-ed essay
Posted in The Cultural Life, The Political Life, The Spiritual Life on October 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve had a couple of requests for my the essay I submitted to local papers here on National Coming Out Day. Here it is.
National Coming Out Day is for Straight People Too
This year National Coming Out Day comes of age as it celebrates twenty-one years since the The March on October 11, 1987 when GLBT [...]
There's now a bench in Laramie
Posted in The Cultural Life, The Political Life on October 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today is National Coming Out Day. And although the newspaper here in Fort Worth has published letters to the editors calling me out for how dangerous a person I am my support of the GLBT community and some papers are publishing ads that are making me into wingnut enemy number 1, my op-ed on Coming [...]
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