August 6, 2012 – Episcopal Cafe

“Wealth worship, war worship, and the permanent culture war”

August 6, 2012 4 Comments

Having observed politics up close and personal for most of my adult lifetime, I have come to the conclusion that the rise of politicized religious fundamentalism may have been the key ingredient in the transformation of the Republican Party. Politicized religion provides a substrate of beliefs that rationalizes—at least in the minds of its followers—all three of the GOP’s main tenets: wealth worship, war worship, and the permanent culture war.

Windward

August 6, 2012 2 Comments

…art we’re doing this summer

Church seeks input to shape role in UN’s “Status of Women” meeting

August 6, 2012 1 Comment

The Episcopal Church, joining with other advocacy partners, is requesting input from members across the church in ascertaining information that will form the foundation of the church’s presence and participation at the 2013 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) meeting.

Joplin, Mo., mosque razed by second fire within a month

August 6, 2012 5 Comments

A mosque in southwest Missouri burned to the ground early Monday in the second fire to hit the Islamic center in little more than a month, officials said. A blaze at the same building July 4 caused minor damage and was determined arson. No arrests were made and the FBI has offered a $15,000 reward for information leading to charges in that fire.

Three religious leaders frame gun control debate as NRA v. common good

August 6, 2012 9 Comments

Yet in the face of this daily pile-up of corpses (not to mention a vastly greater number of woundings and maimings) most Americans have grown resigned to suffering under the boot of the NRA. It doesn’t have to be that way. Unjust power, especially unjust power with so much blood on its hands, can be challenged and overcome by a sufficiently outraged public.

When “hate” is the right word

August 6, 2012 8 Comments

When you use conservative coded language like “lifestyle” to describe the lives of a particular category or class of people, you are engaging in hate speech, you are perpetuating a rhetoric of fear, even when you surround such rhetoric with words like “love” and “compassion.

Reading Backward

August 6, 2012 No Comments

Start with the image of the “face of Jesus Christ.” Jesus’ face is the face of profound love, the image of God. Jesus looks and brings understanding, forgiveness, healing, and hope.

The Archive

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