And…silence

In the wake of this whole St. Joan controversy, Katherine Kersten wrote a column on it for the Star Tribune.  KK is the Strib’s equivalent to, well, I’m not sure.  A woman who is strong in her conservative and religious convictions (neither of which I have a problem with, and many times I do agree [...]

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note to readers: All new blog entries between July 1st 2008 and August 10th 2008 will appear under this post.
Did you find this site from the 2008 Minnesota Fringe Festival?  If you did, welcome.
Tipping the Bucket premieres at the U of M Rarig Center Arena Stage at 8.30pm on July 31st, with subsequent shows at:

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Myth Me Musings (27): God Wants You To Renew Your Licenses

I’ve been following with great interest the ongoing saga between Mary Jo Copeland and the City of Minneapolis.  Mary Jo is the founder and director of Sharing and Caring Hands, and is pretty much waging war against the City because she feels that they are threatening to take away her license to serve food at [...]

Myth Me Musings (25): A new spiritual home

I’m currently trying to find a new church home in Minneapolis, and I’m having issues.  The problem is, I’m a less than traditional Catholic, what with the whole gay liberal thing.  The problem is, I crave pretty much as traditional a worship as I can find.  Except, any church that has anything about accepting gay and [...]

Myth Me Musings (22): Meet The Jespersens

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Thursday night I spent a couple hours at Zoe’s house, chatting and trying to put my brain in some semblance of order when my mom called to tell me that the viewing was not at the “normal funeral home, it’s at the other one.” And the word “normal” in that instance made complete sense to [...]

Myth Musings (21): A death in the family

Some more information has come out on the accident that my cousin was killed in this morning, hitting the evening news and creating a subsequent comment thread.  Apparently, there are a lot of people praying for us right now.  I’ve never been one to tell people I know that I’m praying for them, let alone [...]

Myth Me Musings (20): God and the Government

I was just doing my nightly blog check, and read this article on CNN’s 360 blog.  Basically it’s a commentary on Rev. White’s “God Damn America” speech that’s been widely talked about this week (I’m still waiting for the Obama supporters over at LME to weigh in on this speech–love you guys, but you know [...]

Myth Musings (19): The Island

I’m sitting here watching tonight’s episode of Lost, an hour late ’cause, well, the Tower called. It’s good to see an episode that centers around Michael (Harold Perrineau). He’s been gone for a season and a half. But Perrinaeau is such an engaging actor. I’ve loved him ever since Baz Luhrman’s [...]

Myth Me Musings (18): God’s Country

We did a show Monday at Emroy and Henry College in Emory, Virginia.  As much moaning I did about it being a) in the middle of nowhere with b) no bar open after the show to get in some St. Patrick’s Day action, I forgot to mention how absolutley beautiful that area is.  The tri-state [...]

Myth Me Musings (17)

In the introduction to Isms is the following sentence:
No offence to any religion is intended by the authors, who remain strictly neutral with regard to the various truth claims of any tradition.
At face value this is your basic cover-your-ass statement by anyone who is writing about beliefs.  But the phrase that jumped out at me [...]