It's the 50's Calling!

Hi, This is the 1950's calling!

You know, with the imminent nuclear holocaust, Joseph Stalin, the Iron Curtain, the Korean War, Joseph McCarthy, blacklisting, the genesis of the Vietnam War, measles, mumps, polio, Jim Crow, lynchings, segregation, people being put in institutions because of their sexuality, the objectification of women, and second class citizenship for people of color and women, things weren't all that great. Anybody who wasn't part of the norm, anybody who seemed to deviate from standard practices of acceptability was made an outsider...a part of the other. Diversity was not valued. 

I suggest we all look forward rather than back, an Make American Better. 

Fund Drive Burn Out

It's nothing personal

When you hold a fund drive every two months, I tend to get annoyed. I stop listening. I go to other public media outlets. I get what I need there. I'm still loyal, just not right now. I'll be back when you're done. I promise.

Meanwhile...can you think of ways to really shorten the drives and hold fewer of them? I'm not the only one tuning out.

The Right's Stranglehold on Religion

There's a Broader Discussion

Most people in this country don't realize there's a long-standing tradition of progressivism in Christian religion, and it is finally beginning to reemerge. That progressive movement is about love and acceptance and valuing people for who they are. There is not second class Christian. Conservative Christians claim to love the marginalized and then tell them to sit still in the pew and not speak up or participate. Without Progressive Christians there would not have been an end to slavery in this country, the civil rights movement, child labor laws and a myriad of other changes that that advance humanity.

Christian conservatives and their Republican allies would rather the narrative of social justice be squashed.

'I hope that teachings about inclusion and love win out over what I personally consider to be a handful of scriptures that reflect the moral expectations of the era in which they were recorded.' —@PeteButtigieg

Read Jim Wallis' article in Sojourners. It is time to take our faith back.

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