Inappropriate Conversations

Whether gatherings like Thanksgiving are, or should be, a sacrament of shared food and drink?

Looking back at the 2018 Pride48 Podcast Expo in New Orleans with great memories of how the event went, looking forward to next time. 

For science in particular, great leaps forward sometimes happen primarily because a person with means chooses to leave a very different legacy than a name on a building. The birth control pill is one example, a particularly relevant one still today.

Kavanaugh confusion

Rethinking the Abortion Conversation

The Protectors (1972)

Live from Pride48 New Orleans Podcasting Expo 2018:

Allies

Intersections

Different Drummer(s)

Loving someone as they are, and hiding who they are

Rogers' message: you are not a mistake

Peaceful Neighbor

Understanding the quiet gay activism of Mister Rogers

Vanity Fair interview with Francois Clemmons

Different Drummer: Francois Clemmons and Fred Rogers

Special thanks to Nicole Villacres from Greetings From Nowhere and Pride48.

Whether answering insincere questions has value, in the moment, much later, or ever?

Whether the film No Country For Old Men (2007) presents a theological perspective? 

I have questions about immigration and the current state of our policies as a nation. I don't profess to have a lot of answers, but I will admit that some of the possibilities seem both obvious and disturbing. For example, what have we become?

152: Anticipating the Bang

42: "The Morning After" for classic Made-for-TV Movies

103: The Thriller Is Gone

187: Television Debut (1972-73)

105: Press Coverage

15: Declaring War on "Just Say No"

195: Telling Your Stories (Before It's Too Late)

59: Ten Areas of Agreement about Abortion - part 1

60: Ten Areas of Agreement about Abortion - part 2

Inappropriate Conversations on Facebook

References:

Pride 48: New Orleans Podcasting Expo 2018

Pride 48: June 2018 Live Streaming Weekend

The Smellcast

Ramble Redhead

Vera Speaks ... For Real

Simply Syndicated: Simply Everything

The Tech Support Rich Show

Big Fatty Online

Nerd Hurdles

Books You Should Read

Greetings From Nowhere

The Satyrsphere

Movies You Should See

Hooked

Far too often, discussions about politics and religion (or even popular culture) are being compromised if not thwarted by blind devotion to entrenched positions. We are becoming more segregated than at any point in my lifetime, not just along arbitrary divisions of race. It's two kinds of news, or even in the minds of some people two kinds of bakeries. Tragically, we are watching an "us versus them" siege play out before our eyes and ears. I've no doubt that I have been impacted, too. Potential listeners of Inappropriate Conversations have, for want of a better phrase, weeded themselves out on shaky religious grounds. And, perhaps, my personal policies like never "un-friending" anyone might make those suspicions seem legitimate. If we can't remain in dialogue, though, then how will we have any real conversations -- inappropriate or otherwise?

Who could resist the combination of April Fool's Day and Easter Sunday? Not me. "A Simple Yes Or No" was originally published in The Juke Joint Journal, 1986.