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Feeding the American Moloch – Plague Epistle IV

Feeding the American Moloch – Plague Epistle IV

Beware Republicans and their devotion to that child-devouring idol, Moloch! I am reading First Things' R.R. Reno, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Glenn Beck, and other conservative luminaries recommend abandoning the elderly to the plague to preserve their American way of life. How much more blatantly can such soulless imperialism devour human flesh and frailty?

The Time is Out of Joint – Plague Epistle III

The Time is Out of Joint – Plague Epistle III

"The time is out of joint," says Hamlet. So, too, is ours. - Plague Epistle III

Little Liturgies for Cramped Spaces – Plague Epistle II

Little Liturgies for Cramped Spaces – Plague Epistle II

When ritual is performed and liturgy created, there is the construction of new, certain time within this age of uncertainty.

Alone Together – Plague Epistle I

Alone Together – Plague Epistle I

I am in Brooklyn, New York and I am writing a bleak theology while cloistered with the rest of my city. I do not know what these epistles, these letters, these dispatches are to become. But I am writing them, because they give me relief and we are alone together in this time of real uncertainty.