Latest Blog Posts for The Alternative Mainstream

• At the scene on Good Friday
  on Mar 25, 2016 in Uncategorized Father James Martin Good Friday Holy Land
  Jesuit Father James Martin takes us on a virtual pilgrimage during Holy Week. This video is Day Five, featuring the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Garden of Gethsemane. All these videos are found at America Media’s youtube channel.  ...
• The brats prevail as the GOP becomes the POB
  on Mar 21, 2016 in Social Justice Uncategorized Election 2016 Merrick Garland Republican Party Supreme Court
  They’re so soaked in shamelessness they don’t even see it: Senate “leaders” are folding their arms like pouting six-year-olds and refusing to unwrap President Obama’s gift. By all accounts, Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland would be the...
• Celebrating with post-resurrection eyes
  on Mar 20, 2016 in Uncategorized Palm Sunday
  Palm Sunday is a celebration surrounded by clouds and rimmed with light ...
• Viewing the madness
  on Mar 2, 2016 in Uncategorized
  I’ve been benched, forced to watch the GOP descent into xenophobic madness through chemotherapy’s haze.  I haven’t possessed the strength to drop in comments until now. Here are three observations, for what they’re worth: First, many poi...
• If a big lie falls in the woods, is it true?
  on Dec 28, 2015 in Uncategorized
  Teeth forever gnash over the “liberal media” tale, which portrays reporters conniving in back-alleys to undermine the American Way — tutored, of course, by a sinister Old Gray Lady, otherwise known as The New York Times. One problem...
• Evangelicals were everywhere at the COP talks
  on Dec 12, 2015 in Creation Care Global Warming Uncategorized
  Committed Christians were crawling under every rock at the United Nations climate talks in Paris, with environmentally-friendly evangelicals leaping into the fray as never before. Brian Webb headed up a Climate Caretakers team while VIP's such as Ric...
• Rolling in the xenophobic brambles
  on Nov 27, 2015 in Culture Faith & Action Social Justice Uncategorized Donald Trump Immigration Xenophobia
  We’ve lain in this anti-immigrant and refugee bed before and it always sprouts thorns.
• Bummer about the calamity, but what’s on the menu?
  on Nov 17, 2015 in Uncategorized
  I emerged from the coal mine – in which I had been trapped for eighty days – only to discover that world-wide calamity had struck.
• Beware Hell’s martyrs
  on Nov 16, 2015 in Uncategorized Beruit bombings martyr martyrdom Paris Paris bombings terror terrorism
  It’s now a macabre routine: As soon as the bodies of innocent mothers and daughters and fathers and sons are carted off the sidewalk, someone from a virulent theocracy hails the suicide bombers as “martyrs.”  How twisted.  The very concept of...
• Scheming aside, this was good
  on Nov 6, 2015 in Uncategorized
  Trust me. Things slip through your fingers when you’re fending off a potentially fatal illness — like blog entries.  I’ve been in and out of the hospital since August 24th in an attempt to rescue the rest of body from a rabid tongu...

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