He’s Coming Home; He’s Coming Home….
Yes, I'm now mere hours from getting onto a flight and going back to David and Gramsci. I've only been gone for a ten nights (eleven by the time I get home), but it feels like much longer. And I've been away so much lately that I need to be back in connection with my life.
I love being here, and I love the people, but I need my baby and my kitten.
More Religion
The previously-mentioned Pope story triggered quite a heated discussion over on Millarworld, which was eventually closed and partially migrated to a new discussion about the increasing rift in the Anglican Church over homosexuality.
Now you all know that I'm fairly clear in my lack of interest in religion for myself, so I'm not actually affected by this news, but I have followed the convulsions that the church has got itself into over this with interest as a barometer of wider views. And I have to say that when I read paragraphs such as this one:
"The communique said top clerics were "deeply alarmed" that the "standard of Christian teaching on matters of human sexuality" had been "seriously undermined by the recent developments in North America"."
I realise that the world at large has even further to go than even a cynical bastard like me is usually willing to acknowledge.