This is my last blog entry on Still Small Voice. As of today, I leave the employment of Mother Courant, after 26 years (Jaysus! Just typing that makes me hack up a hairball), two months, and 28 days (according to the human resources department).
I have issues with many aspects of social media, but the one thing I’ve enjoyed is the conversations that have grown, died, and rebirthed themselves on this blog. Thank you all for the arguments, the encouragement, the blog post ideas, and the friendship.
I am going to step away from blogging for a week or so to finish a biography on Isabella Beecher Hooker, and then maybe we can start the conversation again back where it started so long ago, at datingjesus.net. I’ll be at susan@datingjesus.net. Don’t be a stranger.
I am leaving the Courant, but not moving out of state, and in the next little while, hope you’ll consider coming to Charter Oak Cultural Center for the first venture of Hartford 2020, a community conversation non-profit where we’ll bring documentaries — and produce local plays — about topics that need talked about.
All events will be held at Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford’s epicenter of cool.
On June 5, we’re partnering with the center, and Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association to bring in the documentary, “Hot Coffee,” with the director Susan Saladoff there to talk about her work. You just may leave the evening with your definition of “frivolous lawsuit” revamped.
The documentary will start at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5, and I hope to see you there.
And Jamey Bell, the executive director just started with the first one, and here it is.
You can read more here, at Huffington Post, where David Gibson, of Religion News Service writes:
The wave of lawsuits filed this week by more than 40 Catholic groups against the Obama administration’s birth control mandate was meant as a demonstration of church unity and influence in the face of what some bishops see as a grave threat to the church’s very existence.
But the strategy has also exposed serious fault lines within the U.S. hierarchy, as some leaders are privately and even openly questioning the legal and political ramifications of the bishops’ latest battle with the White House.
From the comments below, Sharon found this, information about Catholics who are leaving the fold. Thanks for that, Sharon.
…the one who wants to lock all “lesbians and queers and homosexuals” (his words, not mine) inside an electric fence, drop food for them, and then let them die out:
Make a donation to your favorite LGBT advocacy group in the pastor’s name. You can find out more here.
And thanks, Kim, for the link.
C-SPAN is live-streaming the National Religious Freedom Conference here.
You can expect the health care mandate for employers to provide coverage for contraceptives to come up at some point.
And she said her faith in humanity was restored.
And someone needs to tell these lawmakers.
For more on this myth, go here.
Hawaii refused to accept Arizona Sec. of State Ken Bennett is qualified to investigate whether Pres. Obama can be on the ballot, and they asked him to prove it.
Turns out, Bennett says Obama’s in, so it’s all good. Now can we let the whole birther thing go? Please?
And thanks, DickG., for the link.
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