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Here’s a nifty podcast from right here in Seattle

…by Abbott Tryphon of All Merciful Saviour (Orthodox) Monastery near Seattle, Washington. As Pete Vere, who put me on to this, observes. “This is a monastery under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), which at one time was the Orthodox Church’s closest equivalent of the SSPX.” This one was recorded a […]

Interesting piece on scientists from different spiritual traditions

…can be found here: When you ponder the vastness of the universe, the wonder of the natural world, or the mysteries of consciousness, what are you left with? Are you someone who sees nothing but a material world, the workings of which are just waiting to be discovered by the logical reasoning of science? Or […]

How Fun! Steve Ray has a new Footprints of God DVD out

Here’s the skinny: Steve Ray is best known as the adventurous, daring host of the wildly popular Footprints of God film series, which takes viewers on a journey through the Bible from Abraham to Augustine. Now the 9th film in the series, ELIJAH & ELISHA: Conscience of the Kingdom, is available to purchase on DVD.  […]

Today’s Thing for “Prolife” Christianists to Waste the Day Defending instead of the Unborn

Common Sense from Fr. James Martin

My latest at The Catholic Weekly: I have criticised Fr. James Martin, SJ in this space, so it is only fair that I praise him as well when he does good.  Last week, he published two tweets that sum up very nicely the insane dichotomy of the politics of my country—and the Church’s entirely sane […]

Basic Civics Primer

So, for instance, Samantha Bee, like Roseanne Barr, has a perfect right to say what she likes without the state punishing her.  She cannot be jailed for her vile insult to Ivanka Trump any more then Roseanne Barr can be jailed for her vile insults to Valerie Jarrett or Susan Rice.  Indeed, the state cannot […]

Read this whole thread

…on this tweet to grasp the full magnitude of just how awful Dinesh D’Souza is: Are you planning on keeping a Charlottesville truther on the National Review masthead, @RichLowry? pic.twitter.com/pNIYqDGWMU — Brandt (@UrbanAchievr) August 21, 2017 Then reflect on the fact that this self-confessed criminal, who mocked shooting survivors, who has credible charges of domestic […]

The death toll in Puerto Rico is 70 times higher…

than the Trump Administration claimed.  And a huge percentage of those deaths are due, not to the storm, but to the fact that a racist, negligent, and incompetent Administration did not do the work necessary to help restore the infrastructure for American citizens in desperate need. More than 4,600 Puerto Ricans may have died in […]

Something to think about

The 8:33 entry also raises many questions.  Was it a human who was suspicious of something?  A human acting suspiciously?  And why the specification “human”?  What other thing or animal could act suspiciously?  My neighbor’s cat sometimes gets into mischief with our birds and squirrels, but I don’t suspect it of anything because it’s a […]

So this happened

A woman with a proclivity for calling brown people apes: …got hired to do a reboot of her show by ABC last year.  Note the date on that tweet.  Everybody knew she was an unstable kook given to nutty bigotries and crazy conspiracy theories: But, as the retweets make clear, she was a nut who […]