On Food & Culture
I’ll copy here the link that Mary discovered about contemplation and social justice, The Hill Connections by Mary Pat Hill, OSM. It’s a very rich, useful resource. Hurray for the Senate voting to overturn the FCC rule that expands the number of TV stations that …
Listening to our wonderful community radio station, KPFT, last Saturday morning, I was deeply touched by a song about one of our targeted bombs that hit the home of, and killed, the Iraqi artist, Layla Al-Attar. I called the station and got the name of …
For Post 9/11 — Consider this dated, but relevant work of United Methodist Women. They prepared these five stations of the cross which work as personal reflection but could also be used in groups. I am listing all five stations here. Station one, Gethsemane Station …
A resource mentioned during the MACC Seminar yesterday on media and church ministry is the CD-ROM by Peter Horsfield. (scroll down the page ’til you get to his name)The Mediated Spirit. This is such an excellent basic framework from which to reflect on media and …
Hola to the MACC mini pastoral participants with whom I shared reflections this morning about media, culture and ministry. As promised, these are the handouts in case you want to either read them online or download them: Mary Hess, Ph.D. writes about the religious imagination …
Last night on Larry King Live Walter Cronkite explained clearly and equanimously why he did not support the US invasion of Iraq and why today we are in such a quagmire. His remarks about the so-called patriot act went something like this: “If we destroy …
Look at this absolutely wonderful painting by Jos� Luis Ortiz, anonymous text, in the 2002 Social Justice Calendar. Alberto Pigola told me about the site. The art is uplifting and another invitation to join the struggle of migrant farmworkers. You can donate to the Catholic …
During the meeting in Santiago, (Creadores de Im�genes Cristianas), Arturo Reynoso, sj, presented two CD-ROMs that he has made for trainning. They are very nice and are in Spanish. One is an introduction to the bible and the other one is an introduction to Christology. …
I�m attending the annual seminar, �Creadores de Im�genes Cristianas� in Santiago, Chile. The director of research for the national television council (equivalent of the FCC in the US), Mar�a Dolores de Souza, presented some of the research on children and TV in Chile. It is …