Once again, a provocative comment by one of our readers leads to its own post. Josh Magda commented on Derek Olsen’s Daily Episcopalian piece on
UPDATE: see below The New York Times reported on a decision by the Supreme Court, excerpted below:
The manifestation of the world’s true King and the one true Light shakes loose our settled convictions and patterns of living. It causes us to forsake the path of least resistance and to enter into new and unsettling relationships and ways of life. Ways of life based not on domination but on brotherhood and sisterhood.
“Put simply, human trafficking is slavery.”
“People like Rick Santorum and others underestimate the real cultural shift that has taken place here,” Robinson says.
CTRL+C and CTRL+V are the instruments of transcendence.
The Pope may well be opposed to marriage equality, but he didn’t show it in the way the headline writers portrayed.
“God attends gay weddings. Who knew?”
Jealousy, prejudice and violence is healed by blessing and community.
So—what do we do? What sort of tentative half-measures do we take, or, alternatively, what sort of wacky out-of-the-box solutions do we throw ourselves towards? What should we do? Or, what shouldn’t we do?