Month: September 2012

Linkage Proper.

Posted on By pukeko
It is about time I put together a list of good posts in the last week. Now, I do not necessarily agree with every one of them. Your mileage will vary. Your offense level may be challenged. Nothing here is frankly evil, but nothing here also may be… Read More

Linkage: freedom and islamophobia.

Posted on By pukeko
The Imams of this world get a lot wrong in their mistaken zeal for righteousness. They are following a prophet who was by his own admission instigated massacres and had multiple wives, at least one of them underage by most standards: the age of… Read More

A certain lack of subtlety.

Posted on By pukeko
One of the statements Jesus made about his return is that it would be as obvious as lightning across the sky. We do not need to go looking for signs, they will be provided. Jesus may have been alluding to incidents in his life such as this.
Luke…
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Creative disobedience

Posted on By pukeko
Now over the last few days there has been a fair amount of talking about female solipsism: a sense that a woman is not able to sin, or that her sins are not things that she needs to take account of. Now, this removes the sense that women have… Read More

Kirk is like the staff meeting.

Posted on By pukeko
Today's Kirk was not following the lectionary. We are not quite that liturgical. Instead Richard talked about Kirk as like a staff meeting. It is a time of planning, of encouragement, of correction, but it is not a time of work, of production. His… Read More

A lack of tradition.

Posted on By pukeko
Alte translated this. What this shows is that continual abuse and rudeness leads to pushback.
The author is Heinz Buschowsky, the SPD mayor of the district of Neukölln.   What I’m concerned with here is the daily helplessness in such…
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Purim.

Posted on By pukeko
Now, this is not the time for Purim, that is in February next year. But the readings are coming from Esther. Now, the introduction today is not mine, But Sunshine Mary's
I don’t know who these silent readers are, but I hope and pray some of them are women who might…
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