As others have written, Mildred Jeter Loving died last Friday. She and her late husband Richard were co-plaintiffs in Loving v. Virginia, which in 1967 struck down the remaining miscegenation (anti-mixed-ethnicity marriage) laws.
That case has long given me hope that Hubby and I might enjoy legal marriage without having to move to the one […]
Before torture returned to the Land of the Free, my #1 issue was opposition to the death penalty, and it still weighs heavily on me.
Good news, though. Bucking the longer trend of a broadening of the death penalty in the United States and amplifying very recent, if smaller, moratorium movement, New Jersey has now banned […]
Andrew Sullivan lays out the sickening details following the admission of former CIA torture advocate John Kiriakou: what torture is (again), what the threats weren’t and who knew and approved of torture. Read here and here. President Bush must be held accountable. Congress: where are you?
Part of me expects no just resolution, but Christians live […]
Thank God: BBC journalist Alan Johnston has been freed after 114 days in captivity in Gaza.
Details (from the BBC)
At Day Job, I sit near the front door. We don’t get a lot of visitors and very few are unexpected, so when one comes by, I stop doing What I Do and greet him or her.
Or yesterday, them. Two people, after visiting another office on our floor saw the name of Day Job and […]
I’ve been keen to refer to my partner as Hubby for the last four years. I’ve respected his privacy for the same reason one shouldn’t preach about one’s relatives: they don’t have their own equal venue or vehicle. It’s easy to misuse a relationship’s trust that way: too high a price, I think. In the […]
Last month I wrote about how I enjoyed and recommended Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping. Brilliant political theater. You can listen to some of the group’s songs: I’m especially fond of #3 on the media player, “(Shop Enough for) Africa”
But I think their anthem — my favorite anyway — is “The […]
Does one give to someone who asks for money on the street? Why shouldn’t I, if having so much compared to what little the other seems to have? Wouldn’t Jesus do the same?
Perhaps not. I have agree with Michael Spencer (Internet Monk) that being a Christian doesn’t absolve you — indeed, implores you — to […]
Peace I pray upon the dead, the wounded, the frightened and the afflicted in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Last Christmas, Hubby and I agreed that “O Holy Night” is in the top tier of favorite Christmas hymns. Provided it included the third abolitionist stanza:
Truly He taught us to love one another; His law is love and His gospel is peace. Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother; And in His name all oppression […]
