Wonderful Matters

Just a blog post to share that I did put up my home page piece for the summer, it is at the webzine. Would love for you to look at it, learn a bit of what I've learned, and above all join other followers of Christ and talk with one another about it all. And pray. The world is going to go for a crazy ride very, very soon. I'd recently posted about an interview Catherine Austin Pitts did, and I thought I'd peek at her webzine, Solari.com , to see what she's been saying. I'd known she was a bit of an authoritative iconoclast, but here I came across a piece that elaborated on the things she said in that referenced interview.  (And I borrowed a terrific image she'd posted a few times there for my post masthead here, thanks. Great graphic depiction of the plugged in  world all around. The question, though, yet again: Who exactly are all those people in the image plugged in to? What do all those organizations represented by those symbols and logos and graphic identi...

It seems everyone really likes making FREEDOM  and DEMOCRACY and WE-SIMPLY-MUST-DO-ANYTHING-NECESSARY- TO-STOP-DICTATORS their supremely sovereign gods. How many times do I hear about how much of an "existential threat" some powerful government official will be if he or she gets into some position of authority. Never mind that for several years now people have been childishly using the word existential  as if it related to fears about not existing, when it means nothing of the sort. But it is part of the fiercely distended liturgy, so, well. The truth that just about everybody who blaps incessantly about political matters simply refuses to get is that there is no democracy. There is no freedom. There is always  an autocracy. Always has been. Always will be. This isn't that those things considered democratic ideals  are not desired. Having a say in what happens in your community, even your nation is not a bad thing. Being able to make your own decisions about the valu...

Today is the day everyone is supposed to indulge deeply in the 9/11 mythology, and with it the fantasy that with the good-hands team of the happy wholesome ecclesiocratic hegemony you are really actually truly a very good person, while those other guys over there -- see them, if you don't we'll point them out to you -- they are verry baaad . Let's all seethe about them together, shall we? I think of this day, however, as another anniversary, the 35th, this one of the day when I heard arguably the most sobering message from the pulpit I'd ever heard. Yes, it happened to be on September 11 too. I'd written about it in some length with this blog post from ten years ago , but here's just a bit about it and why I'm augmenting it with a brief post here. The first half of the message was about how wonderful Jesus' home small city was. Capernaum was the name of the place, nestled nicely right there on the northern shore of an idyllic sea, Galilee. There Jesus wa...