In Service to the Connections Between Thought and Action
Recent items of interest
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Dialogues in Democracy 12th Festival of Potluck Foods invitation to September 22, 2007 Eat...Drink...and...Be Literate
Program from September 22, 2007 12th Dialogues in Democracy & 2007 Festival of Potluck Foods
Shouting Over the Din By Bob Herbert NY Times Op-Ed Columnist November 6, 2006, the Monday before Elections Day
Is gay sex immoral? Asking the question, and asking those inevitable other questions about ethics and morality, might help surface real answers that conceivably will bring deeper religious commitment, thought, and action all more closely together as one. Talk about moral action! Wednesday Journal May 23, 2007
Look past the halo: Saints had sinful starts By Cathleen Falsani Religion Writer Chicago Sun-Times October 27, 2006
"The problem of American democracy is (of course) democracy..." What if We're to Blame? Public Opinion and Muddled Policies The Washington Post By Robert J. Samuelson Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Organizational Updates and Seasonal Reflections Click here for ways to use the holidays of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and New Year's to reach after good, beginning from the inside with critical reflection. A series of three essays, each celebrating the power of living pragmatically in the cultural tensions of contradiction and paradox...and ambiguity.
The Urge to Dominate, the Urge to Influence Some affirmative connections between the separate and interdependent spheres of politics and religion. These comments were offered June 30, 2006 as one of many favorable responses to the June 28 'Call to Renewal' Keynote Address in Washington DC by Sen. Barack Obama.
Honoring and advancing the voices of elders. Click here for public testimony in preparation for the White House Conference on Aging, December 11-14, 2005
Disconnected, dispossessed, disinherited, disempowered ? Eulogy for Mark Glende of Oak Park who died in a horrible train accident on January 30, 2006 May Easter Be Your Glad Surprise A Good Friday Sermon by Rickey Sain, April 14, 2006
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Taste & See Photo Gallery
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