Items of interest
2010 Community Potluck Feast at Oak Park and River Forest High School
Sunday,
October 10, 2010
Mixing, Feasting, Music, Art, Perforamance, Jazz Dancing
Invitation
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Taste & See Photo Gallery
In anticipation of the August 28 observance of the
feasts of contemplatives
Augustine of Hippo and Moses the Black (a.k.a. Abba
Moses)
To
keep on keeping on keeping on doing the will of God
August 19, 2010
Optimism and PESSIMISM
"Sure, we could be faced with a 'perfect storm' of catastrophes leading to a
mass extinction [of the human race in less than 100 years], but I think it
will be more likely that we'll adapt quickly, using technology not
necessarily to reverse the damage we have caused, but to support life in a
hostile new world."
The
Strong and the Weak, by Paul Tournier, M.D.
From Chapter 1: Appearance and Reality
Report:
One plausible model of how to conduct
the difficult conversation on race and racialized
thinking
February 10,
2008
Report
of autumn 2007 outcroppings in field education
14th potluck
Festival 09/09/09
Slideshow
Courtesy
Hey Neighbor Project
2009 Festival of Potluck Foods Invitation
13th potluck
Festival
on the
13th
of September
Facts &
Figures: Case study of a "rain-drenched" feast
Slideshow
Courtesy Hey Neighbor Project
2008 Festival
of Potluck Foods Invitation
12th potluck
Festival
on September 22, 2007
Eat...Drink...and...Be Literate
Program
A
‘BOTH-AND’ LETTER TO PATRICIA—written
February 2007 as something
of an open letter, by a participant in
Obama's announcement in
Springfield, Illinois, that he'd seek the
presidency.
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!
From Wednesday Journal
May 23, 2007
Joy to the world
when heaven and
nature preach
Ethical preaching in the
pulpit: Is it happening?
December
26, 2006
Shouting Over the Din
By Bob Herbert
NY Times Op-Ed Columnist
November 6, 2006,
the Monday before Elections Day
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
Seasonal Reflections in All Seasons
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
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
then-Sen. Barack Obama.
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