Amendment 1 (adopted 1791)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacebly to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
– THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF [...]
Rev. Rob Hardies, senior minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC (my member church), sent this letter from Hiroshima via our church’s e-blast list. In 1947 Rev. A. Powell Davies, then senior minister of All Souls, was so moved by the devastation and impact of the atomic bomb dropped on the city [...]
Time to step outside into the sunshine though things are cloudy inside. It’s been a heavy week. Today’s Good Friday. I always wandered what made it “good” if it was the day Jesus died. Did his friends, family, and disciples know he would rise again on the 3rd day?
The [...]
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Three years ago I had my first Mardi Gras experience — in New Orleans. It was part of my “Church Lady Cakes” project. Johari Roshad and I went to New Orleans with a suit case of pound cakes for her friends. It was not so much the shock [...]
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
– Mark Twain
I’ve been taking note of some of the dramatics playing out in the media and politically after the failed bombing attempt on the Northwest flight by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. For me, I breathed a sigh of relief when [...]
How I’ve neglected my on-line life for family, holiday treats, and a little trip to New York City, without a lap-top. For those of you who were pinned in by the snow, you technically have 10 more days of Christmas left to buy last minute gifts or even send Christmas cards. January 6 [...]
I used to be really into Halloween to the point of planning my costume well in advance. That meant taking out the sewing machine and actually making something to wear. Maybe because in those days I had somewhere to go and show off.
This may be hard to believe, but Halloween has [...]
Apparently officials in France and Italy have decided the Burqini reveals too little and have banned women from wearing them to public pools and beaches.
Thanks to an Australian sportswear company named Ahiida, Muslim women can be modestly attired while fearlessly active in the water and on dry land. Ruqaya Al Ghasara, a [...]
HEALTH CARE WATCH by the Numbers with Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com
As I lamented yesterday, health care is one of those areas where both popular opinion and sound public policy seem to take a backseat to protecting those stakeholders who benefit from the status quo.
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, the numbers cruncher whose stats predicted the [...]
June 4, 2009. This speech isn’t just for Muslims.
