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Archive for November, 2008

Feeling the Recession

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

 The Cathedral College, Washington, DC
 
I’ve been trying to get my mind around something for an hour or so, the news in today’s Washington Post that the National Cathedral is going to have to further cut its budget and staff, and so will be closing the Cathedral College, a residential conference center dedicated to continuing education for priests and pastors […]

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The King of Love?

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Lost amid the excitement of the election last week for progressive people was the passage of several state propositions against gay marriage, including one in the supposedly-progressive state of California. I have been mourning that fact, not because I am gay, but because I think these measures are cruel and unnecessary. My marriages did not […]

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United

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Last night, I watched the election returns with tears in my eyes—I know that people on both sides of the political divide had tears, but mine were tears of joy, which tells you something about where I stood on this election.

I was not always a Barack Obama supporter. Originally I was in the John Edwards […]

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