What’s new in the neighborhood?
Faithful Progressive doesn’t feel bad about Scooter Libby:
I don’t feel one bit sorry
for Libby’s crimes against the FBI–
if you think about it, that State of the Union
alone could make you cry.
[snip]
And I feel sorry for my own kids,
who will be paying for this
unnecessary, trumped-up war
that has made things
so much worse than before.
At Faithful Democrats, Jesse Lava nails the terrible danger of Ann Coulter.
On Jspot, Aaron Hahn Tapper writes, “The Golden Calf of the Biblical Hebrews continues to plague the Jewish community, my community. Everytime I see my community place ourselves up on a pedestal, privileging our tragedies or successes above others, I am reminded of the ancient golden heifer. For me, idolatry is not only about raising something above others. It also manifests in the lowering of an ‘other’ beneath oneself.”
The Rev. Chuck Currie sheds some light on the so-called lost tomb of Jesus.
Can you write Newt Gingrich’s smarmy hypocrisy? At Street Prophets, Pastor Dan does.
CrossLeft posts about Bill Moyers receiving the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation’s first Frank E. Taplin, Jr. Public Intellectual Award. Here’s his speech “Discovering What Democracy Means.”
At God’s Politics, Lyndsay Moseley, Associate Representative for Faith Partnerships for the Sierra Club notes hope, along with Brian McLaren, in the recent letter to the NAE regarding the Rev. Cizik.
City of Brass posts on the St. Petersburg declaration from the Secular Islam Summit.
“‘Bush Doctrine’ of pre-emptive war will be George W. Bush’s most enduring legacy.” What? Mainstream Baptist draws attention to this terrifying but ironically true analysis by Karl Rove.
Talk to Action covers the new book about James Dobson’s faith-based political machine.
With a great urban graphic, Faithfully Liberal wonders: How do you help the homeless?
American Buddhist chaplain Danny Fischer posts another vlog about global dialog.
And more media, Provoke Radio asks: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
And Philocrates notes the Berkeley UU congregation great video casting on YouTube.
And the Beatitudes Society blog posts Marcus Borg giving a great address at the annual Progressive Christians Uniting banquet.
Jesus Politics points to a great interview with Chicago Theological Seminary president Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite who says: Learn About Other Faiths? Yes. Mandatory? NO!
And DoC pastor and church historian Bob Cornwell ponders the New York Review of Books discussion of Jimmy Carter and apartheid.
Thanks for the link!