A year ago today, Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park began protests over unjust power and financial structures. Subsequent, substantial coverage for their protests began to follow from there.
The man who when he sees a quarrel on the streets coming to blows will try to quiet it or expresses his strong disapproval, will in the stadium applaud fights far more dangerous; that he who shudders at the body of a man who died by nature’s law the common death of all will, in the amphitheater, gaze down with most tolerant eyes on the bodies of men mangled, torn in pieces, defiled with their own blood; yes, and that he who comes to the spectacle to signify his approval of murder being punished will have a reluctant gladiator hounded on with lash and rod to do murder. ~Terullian
story previously reported locally on the attraction of the Episcopal Church for Latinos in the U.S.
I have not been able to listen to the Ash Wednesday words in the same way ever since. “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Yes, perhaps. But we do not return to the same dust from which we came. What we do between our entering this world and our leaving it, the dust we generate, matters; it makes a difference.
The Rt Rev. Peter Jensen supports his anti-gay stance while appearing on the Australian TV program reported in The Age, Jensen says:
A somewhat patronizing video from the folks at Barna, who nonetheless have good data, and a knack for spotting trends. What do you make of
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