a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. ~~~~~ Anniversary Well, this is the first edition for my fifth year of renting this inter-web space and writing in it weekly. I think I wrote very early on that I was doing the blog as a discipline/process for … Continue reading a challenged writer . . . me
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. ~~~~~ We are stuck!!! Jesus Christ's Church is just fine! However, the fact that The People Called United Methodist are having extreme difficulty presenting an embodied witness to Christ's holistic community is an existential threat to the UMC. … Continue reading UMC schism, a holistic take
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. ~~~~~ BBS thought experiment [continues] —BBS = “Barney’s Bullet strategy” (i.e., eliminating mass gun violence) [week one; week two] A "thought experiment" is a lot like fiction, in that it requires a temporary suspension of disbelief. BBS definitely puts … Continue reading Barney’s bullet strategy and unintended consequences
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. ~~~~~ BBS report —BBS = “Barney’s Bullet strategy” (i.e., eliminating mass gun violence) Last week I broke the mold in terms of genre here at a mystical möbius with a "dystopian thought experiment." It reflects my frustration and … Continue reading BBS and praxis
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. ~~~~~ Context John Woodrow Cox observes (WAMU's 1A): "The truth is that school shootings are rare. What's not rare, especially in kids' minds, is the imminent threat of a school shooting." Cox, in a short audio clip from an … Continue reading “Barney’s bullet” gun safety
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. It's visceral, not intellectual The dust has not even settled from the massacre in Buffalo on May 14th - last week's missive. Now, Uvalde, Texas, and another school shooting (the 27th in 2022!). Tragically, it was an … Continue reading Oh, no! Uvalde! Why?!
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. Mass shooting by White supremacist racist I'm thinking of an earlier piece entitled: It’s déjà vu again again again. As hard as it is for me to believe it, that was two years ago! It was then that … Continue reading “White” replacement?
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. Proximate context - stoking "culture wars" I'm writing this piece today in response to Kansas U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, who waded into the culture wars [again] yesterday [5/4/22] and essentially demanded the right to discriminate, i.e., requesting changes … Continue reading Putin’s lgbtq anti-“wokeness”?
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. Housekeeping note: ~~~~~ Politics and strange bedfellows In this short piece I show how Russian president Vladimir Putin appears to be in an unlikely ideological coalition with a U.S. social justice movement. Please allow me to explain. … Continue reading Vladimir Putin’s “wokeness”?
a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. Masks? Well, I am thinking of our human personalities as a mask. Obviously, our own such mask is known by each of us subjectively from the inside and by others objectively from the outside. Spirituality 101 Parsing … Continue reading masks aside
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