Bill Maher makes me laugh. And cry. His radical simplification of complex issues is both laugh-out-loud funny — and gross. He pierces through the gullibility of people who let themselves be instruments of the self-interest of the rich and powerful…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Make that leap, Bill Maher.
Tagged with: Bill Maher, Common Cause, Ernest Angley, Joel Osteen, John Gardner, Sarah Palin
Posted in Christian Politicians, Faith, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Proofs for God, Stand up Comedy, Uncategorized
Posted in Christian Politicians, Faith, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Proofs for God, Stand up Comedy, Uncategorized
Malaysia and Readers of the Book
Largely Muslim Malaysia has been ill-served by the spectacle of bureaucrats in the Publications Control and Quranic Text Division of the Home Ministry defying the Prime Minister by withholding, then defacing, Bibles published in the Malay language (Bahasa Malaysia). March…
Tagged with: Al-Kitab, Christians, Malaysia, Muslims
Posted in Al-Kitab, I BLOG, Muslims, Prophet Muhammad, Readers of the Book, Uncategorized
Posted in Al-Kitab, I BLOG, Muslims, Prophet Muhammad, Readers of the Book, Uncategorized
Equality for LGBT Families: Lay Catholics Must Lead
In 1965 Thomas Merton, in an open letter to the US Bishops said: The Christian is called . . . to obey the Gospel of love, for all men, and not simply to devote himself to the interests of a…
Beyond Our Prisons
Not according to our sins does he deal with us, nor does he requite us according to our crimes Psalm 103:10 On Wednesday February 16, 2011 a group of women in baggy blue-grey pants and tunics held a classroom filled…
New People, New Poets, A New Vision of the Future
People often ask me about my fixation with poetry the same way they ask why I remain Catholic. Even as they shrink from both, there is an appreciation of the mysteries and the challenge both represent. Not my cup of…
Tagged with: civil unions Hawaii, Egypt, faith, Merton, poetry, poets
Posted in Civil Unions Hawaii, Faith, I BLOG, LGBT Families, Merton, Poetry, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in Civil Unions Hawaii, Faith, I BLOG, LGBT Families, Merton, Poetry, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Let Love Prevail
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. John 1:4-8 Connie Florez is the founder and CEO of Hula Girl Productions and the director/producer of several award-winning films that perpetuate the stories of the past through…
Aloha. “Do not turn your back on your own.”
. . . Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless; clothe the naked when you see them, and do not turn your back on your own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn. …
Tagged with: aloha, Eqypt, light
Posted in Aloha, Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Civic Square, Equality and Faith, Family and Friends, Governing, I BLOG, Justice, LGBT Catholics Hawaii, LGBT Families, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in Aloha, Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Civic Square, Equality and Faith, Family and Friends, Governing, I BLOG, Justice, LGBT Catholics Hawaii, LGBT Families, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
LGBT Families in HI ask “Can you see me now?”
Faith asks a great deal of us. We are expected to see what is not necessarily visible and hear and understand that which is ineffable. That capacity to see and hear with both faith and conscience lies at the heart…
Black Swan: Art or Soft Porn?
We—the “target publics” and movie-goers and TV watchers and internet addicts—are shackled as if by an umbilical cord to the many screens that guide our passage through the day. Perhaps we are prisoners, without knowing it, of the culture that…
Tagged with: Black Swan; Voyeurism; movies; Natalie Portman;
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Movies, Soft Porn and Faith, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Movies, Soft Porn and Faith, Uncategorized
MLK Revisited: End the Injustice of “For Heterosexuals Only”
Nearly 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King challenged America to “stand up for freedom together.” He called for an end to the assault on the dignity and rights of black citizens that the signs “For Whites Only” represented. Today…
Dawn Morais 