For those of you who wish to remember those who fought for the right to vote for women, here are some trivia facts that you might find interesting: 1. The term suffragette was made up by The Daily Mail in England to make fun of the more radical women who campaigned for the right to […]
Archives for November 2008
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost 2008
The Scriptures for today were Galatians 1:1-20 and Luke 16:19-31. I, for one, am glad that the Church put those two Scriptures together. The first one is St. Paul’s brief recounting about how he received the Gospel which he preaches. The second one is our Lord Jesus’ story of the poor man who died and […]
National crime and prison policies are failures, part 04
So, what is the religious component to this prison policy change? Any theology can be misused and misrepresented. Anything that is true when said in a balanced way, can become untrue when only part of it is misused or when it is misunderstood. And, this has been true of Evangelical/Fundamentalist theology with relation to the […]
