Minnesota House passes marriage equality bill, the Jewish perspective
from TCJewfolk by Bradley Machov
Along with Rep. Simon, the Jewish community was well represented at the Capitol by Shir Tikvah, Jewish Community Action, Jewish Community Relations Council, and probably more. Rabbis both present at the capitol and not offered words of encouragement to the LGBT community.
Radinovich, others show courage of conviction in marriage vote
from Minnesota Brown by Aaron J. Brown
All northern Minnesota DFLers supported the bill, including several in districts that have recently opposed gay marriage. Some districts, such as those on the Mesabi Iron Range, are used to splitting with their representatives over social issues. But some northern Minnesota reps took a real political risk by voting their conscience on marriage equality.
Minneapolis should focus on data when selecting car-sharing provider
from streets.mn by Andrew Owen
But I think a different issue will, in the long run, have both broader and deeper implications for the future of innovative approaches to transportation in Minneapolis. I hope that Mayor Rybak and the City Council appreciate the importance of choosing a provider that is able to provide detailed data for use in research, analysis, and evaluation.
Rock-throwing co-op occupier, Minneapolis, 1975
from MN70s by Dave Kenney
Tensions between two factions in the rapidly expanding Twin Cities food cooperative movement escalated into open hostilities on May 5, 1975. A group calling itself the Co-op Organization (CO) took over the People’s Warehouse, a cooperative food distribution center located in Minneapolis’s West Bank neighborhood.
Connecting to Rachael Hanel’s 'Memoir Of A Gravedigger’s Daughter'
from Minnesota Prairie Roots by Audrey Kletscher Helbling
Imagine summers in a cemetery, flitting among gravestones or reading books while your father digs holes to receive the dead and your mom mows lawn. And imagine the day you understand that names, dates and words on tombstones reveal stories. I expect we all experience that epiphany at some point during our childhoods, realizing the numbers and letters on cold stone represent lives lived. But the daughter of the gravedigger wants more, asking her storytelling mother to share the stories of the deceased.
Without salvation, faith has to be more than community
from Theoblogy by Tony Jones
…a lot of people say that the advantage of belief in God is that it makes sense of their personal experience of the Divine. Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche think that we’re deluded, as do Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris. But in spite of their protestations, the vast majority of human beings who presently roam this planet experience something more than themselves, and they call the source of this experience, “God.”
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