What’s going in Estonia?
stephen
I hope the predictions of this piece is accurate. But I doubt it.
A quick way to restart the exodus from the pews is to make the church even more overtly partisan, rather than spiritual.
When was an evangelical in the 90’s and the 00’s the churches my family attended were frequently GOP rallies with a veneer of Jesus over top. This change in IRS policy that seems to have never ever been enforced to start with will make no difference. The gloom and doom of this piece that suggests that political entities will start dumping money into churches to stump for their candidates - I don’t think that’s going to happen, since the churches that would be game - are already doing it.
Danny Glover has a recitation that I like too. The National Archives had a recitation of a much longer version of the speech with additional context: https://www.youtube.com/live/uRvQL8-Qokg
There are some ways that Mr. Douglass’s words are fortunately no longer true, but in many many many other ways are still very unfortunately still relevant.
Disconnecting incarcerated people increases the problems of institutionalization and further alienates them from important social networks that provide emotional support while incarcerated and will provide a higher chance of success with reintegrating following release.
Prison email/messaging systems are also an absolute gouge.
The people who profit from incarcerated people are scum. The government officials who have privatized any single aspect of the judicial system are also scum. “Justice” that generates fortunes for anyone can’t possible be a real justice for a society.
The whole bit with the hitchhiker being condensed into that woman at the pool was substantial edit and an improvement.