Way cool Saturday sounds.

Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society: “Ferromagnetic” (live)
Is it jazz?  Big band?  Experimental?  Or just great music?

Retreating again.

Later today, I’m off again to the New Jersey Pine Barrens, for the second and final retreat part of the ongoing journey that has been my Spiritual Formation Group these past nine months.  I am looking forward to it, of course, and the weather forecast is looking good for a fine couple of days, but part [...]

Sick sad world, v. 1.

I give up.
Gun-loving pastor to his flock: Piece be with you
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) June 4 – A Kentucky pastor is inviting his flock to bring guns to church to celebrate the Fourth of July and the Second Amendment.
New Bethel Church is welcoming “responsible handgun owners” to wear their firearms inside the church June 27, a [...]

Remember.

Twenty years ago today.

Well done, New Hampshire.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) June 3 – New Hampshire legislators approved a measure Wednesday that would make the state the sixth to allow gay marriage, and Gov. John Lynch said he would sign it later in the afternoon.
He had promised a veto if the law didn’t clearly spell out that churches and religious groups would not [...]

Summer reading!

I have a ton of reading to do this summer.  The curriculum guides I have to read for my new seventh grade social studies teaching assignment (YIPPEEE!!!… oh, sorry…) total something like 500 pages worth of stuff.  And I’ll want to find some additional books to supplement that, I’m sure.  Plus, there’s the reading I’ll continue to [...]

“War is sin.”

by Chris Hedges
(TruthDig) June 1 – The crisis faced by combat veterans returning from war is not simply a profound struggle with trauma and alienation. It is often, for those who can slice through the suffering to self-awareness, an existential crisis. War exposes the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves. It rips open the hypocrisy [...]

In case you missed it…

Our new team has a new coach!
Philadelphia Union names Nowak first coach
CHESTER, Pa. (Philadelphia Inquirer) May 30 - Major League Soccer’s newest franchise has tapped national team assistant Peter Nowak as its first coach.
Nowak will head Philadelphia Union’s soccer operations as team manager when it begins play next year.
Philadelphia Union CEO Nick Sakiewicz says Nowak [...]