reports: For patients like Brandy — pregnant, uninsured, and without medical care — Stanton Healthcare provides a lifeline for getting health services that they may otherwise be unable to access in the state, and Swindell has an ambitious goal for her network: She hopes it will become the pro-life movement’s replacement for the entire Planned Parenthood organization. more! Read more
I wrote it up for AmCon: The summary for Zach Clark’s new indie flick Little Sister walks a razor’s edge of “could be great, could be awful.” Addison Timlin stars as ex-goth, now aspiring nun C0lleen, who receives an urgent email from her estranged mother (Ally Sheedy). Her brother (Keith Poulson), disfiguringly wounded in Iraq, has come out of the hospital, but he won’t talk to anyone. Will Colleen come home, reconcile with her family, help her brother reenter normal... Read more
At that, the crowd of about two hundred youngsters detonated. They began to pair off, and fights appeared to erupt everywhere, according to an account written for Tmottgogo magazine by Richard O’Connor under a pen name. “One minute I’m watching this guy and girl (probably no older than fifteen) just grooving with each other. The next minute he’s taking swings at her, she’s hitting him in the gut, he pulls out a whip and lashes her, she pulls out a... Read more
Christianity Today: For a Latino, Pentecostal megachurch just 10 minutes south of the Orlando nightclub Pulse, the scriptural call to “mourn with those who mourn” has become their heartbreaking reality in the wake of Sunday’s deadly rampage. This week, Iglesia El Calvario prepares to host funerals for victims, offer grief counseling, and conduct ongoing outreach for their city and its LGBT community. The nearly 4,000-person Assemblies of God church prayed, gave blood, and passed out water on Sunday, while death... Read more
In preparation for this exhibit at the Anacostia Museum I’ve been reading about my hometown’s long, hot summer–the years from 1968 through the late ’90s–and its aftermath. These are really just notes. Ruben Castaneda, S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, And Redemption in DC: Four stories, mostly deftly woven together. First is our narrator, a reporter in LA who gets hooked on crack before moving to DC to be the night-shift crime reporter for the Washington Post. Our man straight-up interviews... Read more
like, the Scientology and Goldman Sachs stuff is not even the weirdest or most disturbing stuff in this piece: …I wanted to find out more about this strange book that has been forced on a million people in the prison system, this book that uses terms and ideas from Scientology and tells people that their immoral personalities are responsible for their substance use, their incarceration and their unhappiness. But for an organization that purports to seek to help as many people as possible, Correctional Counseling... Read more
listin’: These films show us visions of a world so often lacking in mercy, as well as worlds in which one merciful act alters the landscape of human experience forever. Produced by the Arts & Faith online community, this list spans 93 years of cinema, from 1921’s The Kid and The Phantom Carriage to 2014’s Love & Mercy. Charles Laughton as Javert?! YES MORE PLEASE Read more
Three blind men are feeling around with their hands, trying to determine what’s in front of them. “I feel something long and ropy, with a bristly end,” one says. “I feel something thick and wrinkly, muscular and prehensile,” one says. “I feel something curved and hard and smooth, like a shofar,” one says. “I’ve got it!” the first one exclaims. “It’s an elephant!” And they spend the next five days trying to feed hay to a table with a rope,... Read more
Posting this here so I can refer to it easily. This is a message from Always God’s Children, the ministry of St Matthew’s Cathedral to gay and lesbian Catholics and our families and friends. Always God’s Children mourns the killing of our LGBT brothers and sisters in Orlando this past weekend. You can read the statements of Pope Francis here, of Cardinal Wuerl here, and of Cardinal O”Malley here. As Pope Francis recently observed, when Jesus wept at the death of his friend Lazarus, his... Read more
There is funk/soul at the end of this post. Delayed gratification, I’ve heard of it but I don’t think it really exists. Racial bias in risk-assessment software: …Prater was the more seasoned criminal. He had already been convicted of armed robbery and attempted armed robbery, for which he served five years in prison, in addition to another armed robbery charge. Borden had a record, too, but it was for misdemeanors committed when she was a juvenile. Yet something odd happened... Read more
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