The audio for the sermon I wrote about a couple of weeks ago is finally available. Clickie, then click on sermons, and do the download thing. You should all listen to it (but bypass the painful 1:30 introduction first), but I'd be especially interested to hear the thoughts of
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On the gravestone of a Vietnam War veteran:When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
Via Accessible Airwaves.

Sometimes, it's best just to steal word for word. Via the Daily Illuminator:Those of you who follow the stirring debates carried out on America's back bumpers are well aware of the Darwin Fish.

Okay, now they've found its fossil. For real. Linking to CNN for the full story.
Neat.

Yesterday, I attended a service at The First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque, where Rabbi Michael Lerner was giving a sermon.


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and it's a major news story. Via Street Prophets, from the UCC's new Accessible Airwaves blog:Last December, do you remember when 115 mainline religious leaders and church members were arrested in Washington, D.C., during a last-ditch effort to draw attention to then-proposed cuts to the Federal Budget that would affect millions of low-income ( Read more... )

Over at Street Prophets, Pastor Dan posts a stonking sermon for this Sunday. A lot of it is a cut and paste from a diary earlier in the week, but it's well worth reading in full nontheless. The most interesting aspect (and real crux of the sermon), however, is the juxtaposition of the following two facts (ganked from the earlier diary):According to ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas. B's been sick today - very sick. And between that and other things, I wasn't able to make it to my Church this evening. So a random thing - a side project on Street Prophets, a liberal religious community I'm part of, St Gracie's opened its doors this evening (albeit only temporarily). The idea is to create an online worship space ( Read more... )

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I am very, very excited about this development. Daily Kos, the largest political weblog on the internet (outstripping all conservative blogs combined!) has its first "official" spinoff community, and contrary to probably everyone's expectations it combines two of my greatest passions: politics and religion.
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