{PBJFlorida} Fwd: The People's Bishop

Another great Chris Hedges piece (below) with relevance and importance to many of us...

Especially, "Episcopal Bishop George Packard's ... moral and intellectual courage stands in stark contrast with the timidity of nearly all clergy and congregants in all of our major religious institutions."

There are a few courageous clergy in our area. -- too few, I am afraid.  Imagine the possibilities if that were to change.

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Date: May 7, 2012 7:47:15 AM EDT
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Drilling beneath the headlines DAILY.

>> TRUTHDIG ORIGINAL REPORTS AND INTERVIEWS:

Chris Hedges on Faith and Protest
"The People's Bishop" -- Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard was arrested for the second time as part of the Occupy protests. His moral and intellectual courage stands in stark contrast with the timidity of nearly all clergy and congregants in all of our major religious institutions.

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy on Egypt
"Dispatches From Cairo: Blood, Youth and Revolution" -- The rough mobilization and confrontation that have occurred at every juncture in Egypt's post-revolutionary evolution is happening again as the first true presidential election in the nation's long history approaches.

>> DON'T MISS THE BEST OF OUR SPECIAL REPORTS AND SYNDICATED COLUMNS:

E.J. Dionne, Jr. on Opinionated Magazines
"Little Journals That Loom Large" -- The American Prospect, a center-left magazine (for which I have occasionally written) faces a financial crisis that could soon force it to shut its doors.

Michael Grabell on Travel Security
"TSA Reveals Passenger Complaints … Four Years Later" -- It took the TSA almost four years to respond to ProPublica's public records request for passenger complaints against the agency.

Keep on digging!

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