Otis Moss III, Trayvon Martin and Fl Tea Party NRA
Posted:
Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:20 pm
by Stephen Fox
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =202112721Strong congregational moment Sunday at Moss Trinity Church in Chicago. Listen online if you can to the congregation's reaction in this 7 minute spot on NPR Sunday morning.
Moss has much more credibility than Al Sharpton and Rush Limbaugh.
Still the bigger picture of the Austin Texas proff on the risk taking a person takes when carrying a concealed weapon is the subject now at hand. The Tea Party NRA gun laws on which the Southern Baptist Convention, Black president et. Al is largely silent.
I think I know where Bonhoeffer, Lincoln and Judge Frank Johnson are on this one. Where is Trey Gowdy and FBC Orlando Florida, for example?
Gun laws and verdicts, Doug Keene, UTexas
Posted:
Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:23 pm
by Stephen Fox
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/07/15/stand-ground-lawsHas Russ Moore engaged this segment on NPR. If so what has he said to the Tea Party House Southern Baptists Gowdy and Oklahoma's James Lankford?
Stand your Ground and Red herrings
Posted:
Sun Jul 21, 2013 2:54 am
by Stephen Fox
Quoting a friends facebook post:
1) The Daily Caller isn't exactly a neutral source. 2) Making this some sort of "women's rights" issue is a red herring. 3) NO ONE is questioning or reviewing ANYONE'S right to "defend my wife and children from a home invasion." In theory, yes, it sounds good that as a law-abiding citizen, you should not have to retreat before defending yourself. IN PRACTICE, however, it's a very, very good thing to have that legal requirement in place before bullets start flying. Here's why: in states with stand your ground laws like Florida's, legally, the smartest thing you can do in ANY altercation involving guns is to make sure the other guy is dead and can't testify. It's not all that hard to take ANY situation and make a jury believe that you feared death or great bodily harm. Again, in theory, stand your ground laws are good; in practice, they are going to lead to more and more shootings (or they have already, depending on which research you believe). But on the bright side, gun manufacturers sales will continue to go up, as will NRA membership, which -- let's be honest -- is REALLY what at least some of this is about. Fear is good business.
My Dad's friend Colin Harris on Trayvon and George
Posted:
Sun Jul 21, 2013 9:48 am
by Stephen Fox
http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=20945Dad was chaplain for summer camp for Atlanta congregation where Bookout was the youth minister the summer of 60 or so. At the time Dad was pastor of Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, N.C.
A grand tradition in a Grand Baptist, Colin Harris
Harris son teaches math at Furman
http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=20945Will attempt to get this to the attention of Mike Hubbard, speaker of the Bama House. My facebook post at his FUMC Auburn was deleted.
Christian Century sayin things
Posted:
Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:48 pm
by Stephen Fox
Bama speaker Mike Hubbard
Posted:
Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:15 pm
by Stephen Fox
I just called his office and asked them to bring my blog on him and Trayvon to his attention. Most significantly the Jelani Cobb piece in the current New Yorker which is exquisite on the matter. I hope to link it soon.
In the meantime hope some of you will take at look at my blog you can click on below.
Sfox
Two beautiful, exquisite pieces on our National Moment
Posted:
Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:56 pm
by Stephen Fox
I asked Gov Bentley about the Menand piece
and brought both to the attention of Speaker Hubbard of the Auburn Network
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/a ... rge_menandAnd the Jelani Cobb definitive piece on Trayvon and Stand your Ground
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2 ... _talk_cobb
Anthea Butler and the Butler
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Sun Aug 11, 2013 8:04 am
by Stephen Fox
In the movie the wife of The Butler, played by Oprah, slaps the son who had become a Back panther and mocks his Father for honoring Nixon. It's gonna be interesting to see how Anthea Butler navigates all this, as well as the Black United Methodist proff at Emory who had reservations with The Help. At this moment I'm not weighing in, just saying I anticipate Anthea Butler's review of this flm.
For me I'm there soon as I can get there when this Movie opens
Toni Morrison is a better novelist than Alice Walker. If nothing else this could be the redemption of Oprah for the Color Purple, which for sure had its Now Testament passages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUA7rr0bOcc