…Please send my appreciation to Archbishop Elpidophoros at tonight’s reception celebrating Greek Independence Day for making “good trouble” in the Orthodox church by baptizing the children of gay couples & alluding to women’s right to choose….
3/20/2023
….How delightful to read that you are celebrating Nowruz today! … It makes so much sense that Persians begin the New Year at spring equinox. I’m not so sure about jumping over fires but love the special meal with 7 symbolic offerings starting with the letter “S.”
3/19/2023
I just listened to Rabbi Peter Berg at the Ebenezer Baptist Church as it celebrates its 137th anniversary. Sen. Warnock introduced him with a story from 1965 when Rabbi Jacob Rothschild rallied temples to sponsor an interracial celebration of MLKJ’s Nobel Peace Prize which launched Atlanta as a metropolitan city, “too busy to hate.”…
3/16/2023
…I was interested in a factoid you shared in Las Vegas yesterday. “3.4 million people with Medicare would have saved an average of nearly $70 on shingles, tetanus and other vaccines last year had the Inflation Reduction Act been in effect — a total savings of about $230 million.” I hope the right people were listening to that one….
3/12/2023
…“A Silent Sangha? Buddhist Monks in Post-coup Myanmar.” It included the idea that we are seeing “a break from the past, when monks played a significant and vocal role at moments of political crisis (making) room for youth – particularly young women – to take on prominent roles in the struggle.”