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Author: David Allen

Warning: This contains graphic content that may be upsetting!

September 19, 2015 1 Comment

This doesn’t have anything to do with being Episcopalian or Anglican or even about being Christian. This is about being human. This is about some very sad facts of the human condition. Both of these music videos bring tears to my eyes when I view them. They bring up memories of personal experience or of the personal experience of close friends. They are about violations of the most intimate kind. Like most good art, they tell a story that touches us.

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“We Win, You Lose!”

September 19, 2015 2 Comments

A small mosque in Louisville KY was vandalized last Wednesday. Members of the mosque discovered the graffiti as they arrived for evening prayer. The vandals spray painted hateful words on walls and doors outside of the mosque.

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Same gender marriage not likely in the Church in Wales

September 19, 2015 2 Comments

The Governing Body of the Church in Wales sat for a vote on same gender marriage on Thursday, 1 SEP 2015. The Body voted by a majority in favor of same gender marriage. However, the majorities in each section of the Body were less than the required 2/3s majority needed to change canon law.

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Last surviving 9/11 search & rescue service dog honored for her Sweet 16

September 12, 2015 No Comments

Bretagne (pronounced like Brittany) is a search & rescue dog for Texas Taskforce 1. TX-TF1 was officially admitted to the US FEMA Urban Search & Rescue System as a full non-probationary member in JUN 2001. System member units respond on a rotating basis to natural disasters and incidents of national significance. TX-TF1 responded to NYC during the aftermath of the attack on 9/11. Bretagne and her handler Denise Corliss responded to the call to help. This was their first deployment to a disaster.

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Reflecting Absence

September 12, 2015 No Comments

When you’re flying above a dense and diverse environment like Manhattan, there is little time to reflect on what you are seeing below. Only in retrospect can you savor moments and see what you had been capturing with instinct. Thus it is with this photograph, where you can see people looking like so many black ants crowded around the square fountains that were once the footprint of the World Trade Center.

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Barna Group survey exposes Evangelical Christians* strongly oppose marriage equality

September 5, 2015 3 Comments

• Evangelicals, 20 million people in the US by the Barna definition, deeply oppose same-gender marriage (94% disagree with the Supreme Court decision)
• the divide in how young folks who are practicing Christians and who are non-practicing or lapsed Christians feel toward same-gender marriage is profound
• 1 in 5 feel that Christian ministers should be legally compelled to officiate same-gender marriages and 2 in 5 feel that businesses should have to provide services for same-gender weddings

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