Come see this week’s Progressive Faith Bloggers Carnival at Truth and Beauty. There are some amazing reads, and the host’s own post is a breath of fresh air. I’ll be hosting next week- join us if you’d like to participate. Send me those links at heidi (at) virushead (dot) net.
The United States has, until now, been a (if not "the") world leader in scientific research and the development of technologies. This has been the backbone of public policies that navigate reality, and it has brought us our highish standard of living and our economy of relative priviledge. But I think we’re on the way out of that role. When ideologies replace knowledge, it is always the people who pay. Certain fundamentalist groups, suspicious of all intellectuals, "eggheads," and independent…
Lots of great reading this week at the Progressive Faith Bloggers Carnival – hosted by CrossLeft (I’m now on their newsletter list). Join up and participate in the next carnival for February 12th at Rickshaw Diaries. Oh, and I’ll be hosting the week after that.
What do you get when you pour very hot water down a rabbithole? Hot cross bun(ny)s! One a penny two a penny – Hot cross buns! It’s official – the memes of repression in the name of freedom and diversity have travelled to the U.K. Or have they? For fear of offending the religious minorities at The Oaks Primary School in Ipswich, headteacher Tina Jackson has asked suppliers to remove the cross from their hot cross buns. .. “The cross…
Courant.com | Lockdown In Search For Beating Suspect Joseph Ambrose, 55, is charged with attempted murder, first-degree assault and first-degree kidnapping of his estranged wife. Two of the couple’s four children were home while he beat his wife. Ambrose is a member of the local Canton (Connecticut) congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Police found several rifles at the rented house. Joseph Ambrose was quoted in a story in The Courant in 1996 about the mission of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Those who…
Thanks to Pastor Dan at the Street Prophets blog for this update on the “War of Christmas” propaganda. As it turns out, the entire story of the school banning “Silent Night” is bogus. Well, the school has turned the tables against the “Liberty” Counsel, the conservative group who appeared on Fox news threatening to sue the school. Wisconsin State Journal, “Dodgeville district firing back over Christmas controversy,” Jan. 25th The Dodgeville School District, accused in December of launching an “attack…