Episcopal Bishop Criticizes the Church Usefully While Protesting Corporate Greed

Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard, apparently alone among all United States bishops of any church, has elected to stand with those of the Occupy movement who have dared to protest the corporate state of greed which runs America now. Doing what I had thought any Christian leader ought to do, Bishop Packard has risked and endured arrest twice recently for his decision to try to preserve public space for the public good. Bishop Packard has also criticized what he calls stale liturgy. Although I have been a critic of the iconoclasts -- those who would throw the baby out with the bath water -- I support Bishop Packard's statements. Certainly most any liturgy can be done in a dry and irrelevant way. Christ Hedges reports on the life of Bishop Packard, who at this point enters the rolls of the heroic leaders of our time. In his eloquence and his smarts, Bishop Packard inspires those who see injustice and desire to do something concrete. More information here: http://truth-out.org/news/item/8960-the-peoples-bishop

There Must Be Music Here

There must be music in this building somewhere. In any event, the angels in heaven are singing with amazed joy at this radically wonderful take-over of a religious building by the Occuy movement for Christian uses. http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-san-francisco-creates-social-center-vacant-/