Inappropriate Conversations

November and December of 2014 included an intense focus on Christmas as a holiday for Inappropriate Conversations, and in many ways this year's TalkBack series is an echo of that time. As I did at the beginning of these look-backs, I'm going to inverse the order of two shows posted back then. A few weeks ago, I did that based on the start of Advent. This time, I'm going to do it based on the combi...

After several TalkBack episodes from Inappropriate Conversations, this is a Walk The Earth episode that focused on Christmas, with a new intro that I find even more insightful. The words, shared from a different source, are a bit spoilery about Santa. 

December 14th as the release date for this TalkBack of Inappropriate Conversations is not a coincidence. Looking back to December 2012, I wanted to speak broadly about secular visions of Nativity, but a mass murder at an elementary school could not be ignored. The episode is segregated, with the sadness and anger at the end. Now, 6 years later, it seems like we've had countless aftershocks to that...

AMC is televising "Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey" for the 2018 holiday season, with (sometimes very early) morning broadcasts on December 12th, 21st, and 24th. It isn't a Rankin-Bass classic, but it is worth the time to look back at the 1977 half-hour special. So far, the only commentaries of this sort I've done have been for Rudolph and Nestor. Make of that what you will.

On Saturday, December 8, 2018, CBS will broadcast "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" for the second time this year. It's a perfect time to look back on an Inappropriate Conversations audio commentary soundtrack for the holiday classic. 

Whether gatherings like Thanksgiving are, or should be, a sacrament of shared food and drink?  

Looking back at the 2018 Pride48 Podcast Expo in New Orleans with great memories of how the event went, looking forward to next time.  Also, an attempt to take recent SCOTUS nominee testimony before the U.S. Senate judiciary committee seriously, and where that ultimately leads. Different Drummer: Yvette Nicole Brown The JV Club #25

For science in particular, great leaps forward sometimes happen primarily because a person with means chooses to leave a very different legacy than a name on a building. The birth control pill is one example, a particularly relevant one still today. Different Drummer: Katharine McCormick World Contraception Day Kavanaugh confusion Rethinking the Abortion Conversation The Protectors (1972)    

Live from Pride48 New Orleans Podcasting Expo 2018: Allies Intersections Different Drummer(s) Loving someone as they are, and hiding who they are Rogers' message: you are not a mistake   Peaceful Neighbor Understanding the quiet gay activism of Mister Rogers Vanity Fair interview with Francois Clemmons   Different Drummer: Francois Clemmons and Fred Rogers   Special thanks to Nicole Villacres from...

Whether answering insincere questions has value, in the moment, much later, or ever? Answers to 40 insincere questions

Whether the film No Country For Old Men (2007) presents a theological perspective?   

I have questions about immigration and the current state of our policies as a nation. I don't profess to have a lot of answers, but I will admit that some of the possibilities seem both obvious and disturbing. For example, what have we become? Different Drummer: Peter Falk One question I don't ask directly: Am I becoming increasingly self-referential?  Allow me to answer with links. 188: Constitut...

References: Pride 48: New Orleans Podcasting Expo 2018 Pride 48: June 2018 Live Streaming Weekend The Smellcast Ramble Redhead Vera Speaks ... For Real Simply Syndicated: Simply Everything The Tech Support Rich Show Big Fatty Online Nerd Hurdles Books You Should Read Greetings From Nowhere The Satyrsphere Movies You Should See Hooked Different Drummer: Claude Monet

Far too often, discussions about politics and religion (or even popular culture) are being compromised if not thwarted by blind devotion to entrenched positions. We are becoming more segregated than at any point in my lifetime, not just along arbitrary divisions of race. It's two kinds of news, or even in the minds of some people two kinds of bakeries. Tragically, we are watching an "us versus the...

Who could resist the combination of April Fool's Day and Easter Sunday? Not me. "A Simple Yes Or No" was originally published in The Juke Joint Journal, 1986. Different Drummer: Animal

Whether Jesus should have washed the feet of Judas? The Secret of Forgiveness

Highlights, poetry/prose, essays, and Different Drummers from the first 8 years of Inappropriate Conversations, which started on March 7, 2010. Different Drummer: Derek Jarman     Highlights 41: Gone But Not Forgotten 44: Sacred Friendship 106: The Violence of Denial 113: Raised on Robbery 150: Opening the Scriptures 172: Proud to Know You 2 182: Murdering Friendship 195: Telling Your Stories (Bef...

Your points and questions #6 covers a couple of years of feedback, with nods to Nancy, Nicole, Shane, Chris, and others.   Different Drummer: Maria McKee We are all God's children.

Whether you would let a dozen people die to save a thousand frozen embryos?  

An out-the-door look at one specific laserdisc collection probably says more about the collector than the technology, just like any playlist or mix-tape. Consider this a time capsule about a format intended to make movies more timeless. Different Drummer: Hoyt Curtin Jonny Quest documentary

If we don't speak up now, raising our voices in dissent, then when will we? An argument could be made that the powers-that-be are striving to stifle the means by which those voices may be heard.  Now is the time to speak in favor of Net Neutrality .  Now is the time to note that we will never be able to return to this moment in history . Now is the time to insist the our leaders put nation ahead o...

Whether people who want answers ask questions?   Supporting material: Sacred Friendship   A Farewell Address from the Mountaintop   Revelation Weekend   Moments of Epiphany   Originating Ideas   Where Would I Be without God?  

Whether people, including children, are allowed to pray in schools?

There is a danger in not knowing the history of our history. Different Drummer: Al Stewart   Confederate Monuments Chart   Robert E. Lee's perspective   Respecting the family's wishes   Not all Confederate generals are revered equally   Smithsonian point of view

Whether missionary work is just a friendly front for cultural imperialism?