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The Boston Progressive: May 2013
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Recycled news and (hopefully) original commentary from a New England Progressive. Friday, May 24, 2013. The news of the world over last few months have been hard ones for many people. Terrorist bombings in the Middle East. The terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon, and its attendant manhunt. The murder of a British soldier by zealots. A seeming never-ending pageant of children killing each other, and themselves, in gun accidents. Multiple devastating tornadoes, destroying homes and lives. 8221;) this ...
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The Boston Progressive: Illustrations For Inspiration
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Recycled news and (hopefully) original commentary from a New England Progressive. Tuesday, June 03, 2014. Officially, no matter that some claim we are a "christian nation," the United States is a secular nation. However, given the demographics of the USA a majority of those elected to office, both local, state and national, profess to being some variety of Christian. These are all from the artist Fritz Eichenberg,. Christ of the Breadlines". Christ of the Homeless". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Boston Progressive: April 2015
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Recycled news and (hopefully) original commentary from a New England Progressive. Thursday, April 23, 2015. Right here in River City. Trouble with a capital "T" And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool! This post is in response to a comment on my last post in re the (un)housebroken puppies. The question was what are my thoughts on voting this year, and nominating for next year's lineup. To start, I don't think I'm alone in that I'm really ticked on several fronts. Third, from what I have read fr...
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The Boston Progressive: June 2013
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Recycled news and (hopefully) original commentary from a New England Progressive. Tuesday, June 18, 2013. 8220;Do you covet honor? You will never get it by serving yourself. Do you covet distinction? Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924). In the Gospels Jesus exhorts us, the “graduates” of the tradition of two millennia of religious theorizing, to hearken back to the simple aims He expressed: to better the world; to feed the hungry; to visit the prisoner; to care for the widow, the orphan and the lep...Boston Pr...
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The Boston Progressive: Transcentental Etude
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Recycled news and (hopefully) original commentary from a New England Progressive. Monday, March 31, 2014. Liszt - passage from Transcendental Etude # 1. In an SF novel by Joe Haldeman ( Worlds. I bring this up because of an insight I recently had during a contemplative retreat. This retreat was aimed at helping the participants make more of a connection between their interior spiritual life and the Christian liturgy (in the instant example, it was aimed at the Episcopal liturgy). The ability to be as emp...
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The Boston Progressive: A Little More on the (Not) Housebroken Puppies
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Recycled news and (hopefully) original commentary from a New England Progressive. Wednesday, April 15, 2015. A Little More on the (Not) Housebroken Puppies. There has been a lot of electrons let loose over the "Sad Puppies" / "Rabid Puppies" bloc voting for this year's (2015) Hugo awards for the works published in 2014. I just found a new wrinkle that is both enlightening and saddening. Author Connie Willis has just put up a post titled " Why I Won't Be A Presenter At The Hugo Awards This Year.". Good fo...
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The Boston Progressive: Magdeburg, Now A Real Place
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Recycled news and (hopefully) original commentary from a New England Progressive. Thursday, May 01, 2014. Magdeburg, Now A Real Place. In the year 2000 Baen Books published an "alternate history" novel, first of a long-running series, by Eric Flint, titled " 1632. It involves the life of small U.S. town that has been transported through time back to 15th century Germany. Indulging in the serendipity that is the World Wide Web, I came across a website. Those running the train, both civilians and guard tro...
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The Boston Progressive: October 2013
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Recycled news and (hopefully) original commentary from a New England Progressive. Monday, October 28, 2013. Stillness, in motion. Our modern world demands our time, our energy,. We navigate through our lives,. Immersed into technology,. Demands that we subsume our individuality,. To stay within the flow of traffic,. Too often we leave ourselves behind,. Caught in the whirlpool,. Losing sense of ourselves,. Not just parts in the machine. Recover who we are,. Contemplate the breathing of a sleeping child,.
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The Boston Progressive: April 2014
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Recycled news and (hopefully) original commentary from a New England Progressive. Sunday, April 13, 2014. The American Promise 1965/2014. In 1965, almost 50 years ago, President Lyndon Bains Johnson stood before a joint session of the Congress of the United States of America, announced that he would be sending a bill for consideration, a bill that would be known as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A full video of the address before Congress is above . But I would like to caution you and remind you that to ...
