Tag Archives: Politics

Saying Goodbye to Mac

Posted on February 2, 2009 by revrose

I was 19 when I first met Isaac McNatt.  It was a Saturday night in the fall of 1974, my junior year at Yale, and I was the production manager for “The Amen Corner,” by James Baldwin.  The play was … Continue reading →

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A Letter to Hillary

Posted on March 26, 2008 by revrose

Dear Senator Clinton: You don’t know me, though I know perhaps too much about you. In any case, let me introduce myself. I’m a pastor of a Unitarian Universalist congregation in New York. I’ve been married for 24 years, to … Continue reading →

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Fresh Air

Posted on March 20, 2008 by revrose

For some time, I have taken it as an article of faith that Barack Obama should be the next President of the United States; I felt that way from the moment I heard him speak at the Democratic National Convention … Continue reading →

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In Praise of Keith Olbermann

Posted on March 14, 2008 by revrose

Once upon a time, I was a talking head at MSNBC. It was a brand-new cable channel then, and I was still more writer and cultural critic than seminarian. But my weekly gig there–courtesy of Newsweek senior editor Jonathan Alter … Continue reading →

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Plantation Politics, Part Two

Posted on March 13, 2008 by revrose

As a Unitarian Universalist, I am obliged by covenant to affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person. As a minister within this free religious tradition, I have a special obligation to attend to these affirmations. But I have … Continue reading →

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Primary Hangover

Posted on March 6, 2008 by revrose

I can’t tell what was more dispiriting about the most recent primaries–watching Hillary Clinton win Texas and Ohio or watching Barack Obama lose them. Clinton did what she does best: old-style, old-school machine politics, garnished with a dollop of fear. … Continue reading →

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Rejoicing in Kenya

Posted on February 28, 2008 by revrose

I was overwhelmed with a desire to be back in Nairobi today, as I read the news reports that the two political factions in Kenya had reached a power-sharing agreement at last. It would be so much fun to be … Continue reading →

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Why Hillary and I Are Done

Posted on February 27, 2008 by revrose

Having never in my entire life voted for a Republican (an honor I was able to maintain through the last NYC mayoral election by voting for Mike Bloomberg on the Independent line!) I figured that I was destined to vote … Continue reading →

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Obama Goes Global

Posted on February 20, 2008 by revrose

It was five a.m. in Amsterdam, and I was groggy from the eight+ hour flight from Nairobi. Feeling disconnected and alien and sleepy, I dragged into Schiphol, looking for the showers at the Mercure Hotel, when I remembered: it might … Continue reading →

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Three Times the Sadness

Posted on February 16, 2008 by revrose

Right after P., S., and I arrived at the camp, we met Beatrice, her sister Nekesa, Beatrice’s daughter, and the newest members of their displaced family: triplets, born in the IDP camp one month earlier. In a space smaller than … Continue reading →

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