Here’s a clip from my interview in “Jesus, Don’t Let Me Die Before I’ve Had Sex.” Matt Barber – the director of Jesus, Don’t Let Me Die Before I’ve Had Sex – a documentary – is posting clips from the project on YouTube. Here’s mine. Click HERE for more clips from the movie and watch! Read more
Are the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs selfish, stupid or just too young and uneducated about history, culture and politics to care about the real world? So asks The New Yorker in a very important article. In, “CHANGE THE WORLD: Silicon Valley transfers its slogans—and its money—to the realm of politics” George Packer, writes in The New Yorker, (May 27, 2013 The industry’s splendid isolation inspires cognitive dissonance, for it’s an article of faith in Silicon Valley that the technology industry represents... Read more
Kevin Miller’s astonishingly good film Hellbound? is now available on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and Youtube Movies. I’m in it (as a minor part) but so are a lot of people you’ll like, no matter what you think of me! Conservative right wing evangelicals like the editors of Christianity Today magazine, hate this movie. That should be reason enough to like it, but there’s more. Hellbound? makes a profound argument for a loving God. What’s so scary about that, to sane people anyway?... Read more
The president I know and love stood listening with respect to a heckler when he spoke today about closing Guantanamo prison. He is a big man in every sense of the word with a big heart. The “IRS scandal” and the “Benghazi scandal” are just more bash Obama “stories” that aren’t about what they purport to be about. Liberals and far right conservatives have joined forces in writing off the Obama presidency so many times I’ve lost count. They... Read more
Yesterday 1.8 million British Muslims did NOT hack anyone to death. Yesterday 61 million people in the UK were NOT attacked by Muslims. Yesterday most people in the UK and America and indeed the world got on FINE… Keep that in mind as the “news” media sells advertising by replaying endless loops of loopy made-for-TV knife-wielding carnage. Read more
Moore OK police dig through the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School following a tornado in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013 Read more
Think of this picture next time someone disrespects a teacher or public school … Teachers carried children away from the Briarwood Elementary School in Oklahoma City which was heavily damaged by the May 20, 2013 tornado. God bless teachers! (Photo credit New York Times) Read more
What nurtures the victimhood on the one hand and the hubris about “taking America back for God” on the other hand? When you hear words like “We want to take back America for God!” the twenty-first century expression of such theocratic ideas can be traced back to some of my old friends: the Reconstructionists. Conservative Roman Catholics, Mormons and Evangelicals couldn’t turn back the gay-rights movement and the progressive attitudes of most Americans about sex and legalized abortion, so they indulged... Read more
Many Republicans claim to be believers in Jesus. On the evidence they hate Him. The Republican/Calvinist/evangelical version of the Sermon on the Mount might go like this: Blessed are those who exercise dominion over the earth: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who deport the immigrants: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are those who agree that the significance of Jesus Christ as the ‘faithful and true witness’ is that He not only witnesses against those... Read more
Can one be pro-life and yet pro-choice? More and more people are saying that they believe that life indeed starts at conception yet also argue that abortion should be legal. Are you one of those who think this way? If not why not? Please read and comment. This article (“Inside the Controversy Over Man Charged with Murder for Slipping an Abortion Pill to Pregnant Girlfriend”) by Mary Elizabeth Williams was first published by Salon and reprinted on AlterNet and is reprinted... Read more
Why I Still Talk to Jesus -- In Spite of Everything
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