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Last night the PBS NewsHour explored the growing use of civilian contract employees for combat in Iraq. Privatization of military forces is a growing profit industry that currently “operates in about 50 different conflict zones,” according to Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution. The report …
How do we distinguish and make choices as we live through “wheat and chaff” situations all the time? Degree zero blogs about the Nina Simone protest song, “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free” as it is used to sell Coca …
Stewart Hoover posts an essay on the Revealer.org about the Passion at South Park. Great! AM
My friends, Alan and Dermot, bloggin in Ireland, link to a flash movie about the passion, “Ecce Homo.” It is nicely open-ended. The site that Alan and Dermot point to, New Pollution, features a lab with intriguing digital art. For info about the Catholic Church …
Found these images about Chicano daily life and the Passion of Christ. The second slide from the top, title unknown, strikes me as a provocative study of Macho sports and Jesus as identity constructions made from our body parts. I’m using this image as a …
As I prepare my durnincometax return, it stresses me that I am helping to finance the war that Bush started based on lies and filthy expansionism. The durnincometax portion that goes to war is 49%, according to the War Resisters League. Depressing, although I do …
I can now tell you about the death of my most dear, long-time friend, Eloisa Chouy. On March 12 her heart failed. To friends who read this public statement, I do it to recognize her work as a courageous leader in religious education. It is …
It was energizing to be with church media leaders during the workshop, “When is Hispanic Universal.” These are resources that I mentioned: 1. Interactive CD-ROM, “Ministry in A Multicultural World: Beyond Borders” 2. “The Mediated Spirit,” a CD-ROM authored by Dr. Peter Horsfield, an in-depth, …
Last night’s episode of “Mariana De La Noche” had an incredible fire scene that looked awfully difficult too shoot. This fire scene sets up a connection between the hero, Ignacio and the evil mine-owner, Marcia. Marcia will seek to destroy the love between Ignacio and …
The Religious Communicators Council is holding their annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama as it celebrates its 75th anniversary. The day prior, I’ll attend the annual meeting of the NARA, North America Regional Association of the World Association for Christian Communication and hear Nancy Snow speak …