Tag: Morality

Brian McLaren posted an open letter to Rebecca Kadaga, the Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament. Kadaga has stated that the proposed Ugandan law against gay

What parallels do you see, if any, between King David and scandal-plagued war hero David Petraeus? David Baker of Religious News Service writes:

Omid Safi asks some hard questions at

“When they were young, they thought they would live forever. But they know better now.”

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

Singleton, who runs the Episcopal Church of the Mediator in Micanopy, said earning that extra penny per pound lifts the hourly wage of tomato farmers in Immokalee from $7 to $12. Singleton’s father, Irby, worked in Immokalee’s fields in the 1930s.