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2024-02-18T21:00:02-06:00

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Some words in support of “No Labels”

Last updated on: February 18, 2024 at 9:00 pm By Jane the Actuary

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What is “No Labels”? No Labels is an entity which may – or may not – field a “unity ticket” for the 2024 presidential election. They state that — in time for the 2024 election — they will poll key states and, if they deem it feasible, they will offer nationwide ballot access to a candidate-pair they select to be an Independent Unity ticket. For clarity, it is not clear to me from their FAQ whether they already have ballot... Read more

2024-02-10T22:06:38-06:00

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Can “Small Groups” change the world? (+Trump, Biden, & Food)

Last updated on: February 10, 2024 at 10:06 pm By Jane the Actuary

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You’ve seen the quote: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” It’s attributed to Margaret Mead, the influential anthropologist who died in 1978, though, as it turns out, according to Quote Investigator, there is no firm evidence, no time or place which she is known to have said this, though, it turns out, that quote has been trademarked by Mead’s granddaughter, Sevanne Kassarjian, though it’s... Read more

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2023-12-28T15:56:20-06:00

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Do The God-Fearers have a place in the Catholic Church?

Last updated on: December 28, 2023 at 3:56 pm By Jane the Actuary

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Who are the God-Fearers, you ask? Let’s rephrase that as, “who were the God-Fearers?” — because this dates back to the ancient Roman Empire. Here’s Wikipedia: God-fearers (Koinē Greek: φοβούμενοι τὸν Θεόν, phoboumenoi ton Theon)[1] or God-worshippers (Koinē Greek: θεοσεβεῖς, Theosebeis)[1] were a numerous class of Gentile sympathizers to Hellenistic Judaism that existed in the Greco-Roman world,[2][3][4][5] which observed certain Jewish religious rites and traditions without becoming full converts to Judaism.[1][2][3][5][6][7][8] The overall story here is that as Jews migrated to cities outside Judea in the 1st through 3rd centuries AD, Judaism was appealing to many gentiles/pagans, that... Read more

2023-12-28T15:57:05-06:00

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Why was Jesus born in Bethlehem?

Last updated on: December 28, 2023 at 3:57 pm By Jane the Actuary

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It’s Christmas, and massive numbers of people are arriving at the southern border of the United States claiming they are seeking asylum (the vast majority are coming for economic reasons so ineligible, and even if they were, it is not so sustainable for the United States to throw open our borders in this manner, but that’s for another day), so that means another round of tweets and articles claiming “Jesus was a refugee.” Plus, of course, “Jesus was a Person... Read more

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Christmas

2023-11-30T22:15:07-06:00

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Why the Holocaust isn’t just one genocide among many

Last updated on: November 30, 2023 at 10:15 pm By Jane the Actuary

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So over the weekend (as part of my overall effort to blog more often) I fretted about an apparent trend to “demote” the Holocaust, by turning it into just one among many genocides/mass killings, and just one lesson among many, in the general category of “tolerance” and “diversity.” And as a follow-up, I wanted to write a bit more on why it matters that we, as a part of “the West,” study and remember the Holocaust. First: what was the... Read more

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Holocaust

2023-11-25T21:28:17-06:00

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Generic-ifying the Holocaust

Last updated on: November 25, 2023 at 9:28 pm By Jane the Actuary

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Yeah, actually I’m not sure of the best way to label this as I try to identify something that’s disturbing me. It has been disturbing me, ever since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7 and the subsequent Israeli military action in Gaza, that so many Hamas/Palestinian defenders have been calling the air strikes “genocide.” It is preposterous and should be written off in the same way as one writes off the claims by those defenders that the hostages, the... Read more

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Holocaust

2023-10-30T20:26:55-06:00

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How to solve the migrant crisis in 2 easy steps

Last updated on: October 30, 2023 at 8:26 pm By Jane the Actuary

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The background: Chicago and New York are both dealing with migrant crises. (Yes, this part of the blog post is from memory; I’m not going to dig out the sources now.) In New York, the city has adopted a “right to shelter” ordinance that obliges the city to spend however much money it takes in order to provide shelter to anyone who seeks it. This may have been intended for a small(er) number of homeless people, with the intention that... Read more

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immigation

2023-10-21T20:23:45-06:00

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Wadea Al-Fayoume, Samantha Woll, and a tangle of unknowns

Last updated on: October 21, 2023 at 8:23 pm By Jane the Actuary

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It’s a quiet Saturday afternoon and I had sat down at the computer to put together some thoughts on the recent killing of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6 year old boy of Palestinian ethnicity in the Chicago exurbs, when I came across a new report in my twitter feed, a second stabbing death. More on this later, but first things first. A week ago, as reported by the Chicago Sun Times on October 16, As the war between Hamas and Israel... Read more

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2023-09-23T21:23:20-06:00

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Synod POV: straight talk on doctrine “development”

Last updated on: September 23, 2023 at 9:23 pm By Jane the Actuary

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A follow-up from my prior post, again referencing James Martin’s article: Now, I cannot speak for my fellow synod members, but I doubt that any members wish to change the essentials of the faith. (I don’t.) But anyone who knows any church history also knows that church teaching has developed dramatically on a variety of topics, including slavery, women’s roles, ecumenical relations, the liturgy, limbo, capital punishment and so on. As Pope Francis said in a conversation with Portuguese Jesuits during World... Read more

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2023-09-09T10:36:48-06:00

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Synod POV: You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test

Last updated on: September 9, 2023 at 10:36 am By Jane the Actuary

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Yes, I spend too much time on twitter. Among other things, this means that each morning I see Cardinal Cupich’s pro-synod tweets, mostly incomprehensible, to be sure, and seemingly directed at a wholly different audience than his actual twitter followers. (Unlike everything else that he tweets, he/his social media manager does not tweet a Spanish translation of these tweets.) It feels like he is engaged in a propaganda effort to get his “flock” to accept whatever happens at the synod,... Read more

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