The easiest way to understand the GOP’s just unveiled Pledge to America is to understand the commandment “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness.” Apparently John Boehner and his GOP associates do not think their professed stewardship of Christian values includes…
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Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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A Pledge to America. . .Or How to Bear False Witness
Tagged with: Christian Values, GOP Pledge, Health Reform, Patient's Bill of Rights
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
“We’re Leading, Not Leaving the Church.”
Those are the words of Bridget Mary Meehan, a Womenpriests bishop and former nun when asked in a recent Time interview, why she and others did not just move over to the Episcopal Church which does ordain women. Meehan’s response…
Tagged with: Chaminade University, Honolulu, Principles of Catholic Social Teaching, womenpriests
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion
An Authentically Dishonest Newt
Adult newts, we are told, have lizard-like bodies and may be either fully aquatic, living permanently in the water, or semi-aquatic, living terrestrially but returning to the water each year to breed. (Wikipedia) Newt Gingrich apparently has found his element…
Tagged with: Catholic, Gospel, Newt Gingrich, Obama
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Religion
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Religion
Catholicism with Aloha
Free. Of the stultifying pronouncements of clergy at the highest levels far removed from the lives of people on the ground. Free. Of the biases of tradition that have their roots, not in the Gospels but in the circles of…
Tagged with: aloha, Catholic, Fr. Raimon Panikkar, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, Francis of Assisi, Hawaii, John Henry Newman, Michael Eric Dyson, social justice, Sr. Joan Chittister, Thomas Merton
Posted in I BLOG, Religion
Posted in I BLOG, Religion
