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"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."  ~  Friedrich von Schiller

Here, we reprise our animated photo essay on Congress' (annual?) addiction to playing with fire by threatening to shut down the government, defaulting on our debt payments, and other mischief.  Watch them warm to the subject as we move closer to the 2016 elections.  They've already lit the fire . . . watch it spread!
WHAT WILL WE DO WITH THEM?

A Reflection on Church Trials
in the United Methodist Church
(January, 2014)
HISTORIC GOOD NEWS
ON THE HORIZON FOR
UNITED METHODISTS?
(March, 2014)

(WE WERE PREMATURE WITH THIS, BUT YOU'VE GOTTA LOVE THE GRAPHIC!
TAKE YOUR MIND OFF THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!

FOCUS ON CONGRESS!

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CELEBRATE THE SMALL THINGS
Snark, Advocatus, and Margaret
Hold Forth on Finding
the Humongous
in the
Tiny
THE POLITICS OF GRATITUDE
A Modest Proposal
Don't Waste Your Time Reading This
It's Never Going To Happen
Move Along Now, Nothing To See Here
Have Fun On Your Coffee Break
Really
"We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in
the hands of a few, but we can't have both.   
 ---- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
#EsquivalientRepublicans

Will someone with a Twitter account
please, please, please
get this one going? 
Thanks.
LAST SUPPER RED - The Synaptic Edition
"Synaptic?"  Say whaaaa?  Surely you jest!

Who . . . us?  Don't be silly.  Leave being silly to us. 
We're professionals.

Enjoy the photo of Naked Toes Winery below (where Last Supper Red wine is produced) and then, just click on our Web Elf below to download this brand new edition right now!


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IN MEMORIAM

RABBI IAN L. WOLK

September 24, 1940  -  January 20, 2015
JE SUIS CHARLIE!
Click Here for 2 Reflections About
the Assault on Freedom in Paris
GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE
The empty tomb and Jesus' bodily resurrection lead some disenchanted folks . . . often those whose early understandings of Christianity were shaped (and distorted) by Fundamentalist, literal interpretations of the Bible . . . to reject the entire Christian faith.  For them, the Risen Christ is nothing other than "Zombie Jesus," * and in some ways, who can blame them for that snarky point of view.

But what if the Easter proclamation is more centrally about this:  what if . . . in the midst of all the truly and ever-mounting accounts of the bad news in the world that leads us to ennui, anxiety and despair . . .  there is HOPE?  Easter proclaims
that the bad news the world keeps hurling at us isn't the last word!  Sure, that's maybe even harder to believe than an empty tomb.  It, too, is a real "scandal."  But it's Easter's hopeful truth.

TRANSFORMATION . . . into some form of NEW LIFE has the last word . . . within us, and in the world's structures of power.   Sort of like the often-cursed dandelions . . . New Life pushes its way up through the cracks in the pavement, the world's life, and our own.  New Life triumphs.

* A Google search returns over 4 million instances and numerous websites are devoted to it.

Want some examples of that sort of GOOD NEWS? 
Want to contribute some good news of your own for a change?  Then click on either image of these dandelions!
Courtesy: St. Luke's Lutheran Church(ELCA), Derwood,MD