Boise church replaces stained-glass windowpane
depicting Robert E. Lee with first Black
female Methodist Bishop
Posted By: rubberneck, 12/10/2021 10:14:20 AM
On Wednesday, the Cathedral of the Rockies near downtown Boise finished replacing a stained-glass windowpane that the church felt was racist and non-inclusive. “To any African American in our community, when they see Robert E. Lee, they’re not feeling warm and welcomed,” said the church’s lead pastor Duane Anders. The Methodist church, which sits on 11th St. in Boise’s North End, was built in 1960. At the time, a giant stained-glass window was installed that mainly depicts early Christian leaders, except for a panel at the top. The upper panel features George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Robert E. Lee standing shoulder to shoulder.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
person likes this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
person likes this.
person likes this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
person likes this.
people like this.
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "rubberneck"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Most Recent Articles posted by
rubberneck"
On Wednesday, the Cathedral of the Rockies near downtown Boise finished replacing a stained-glass windowpane that the church felt was racist and non-inclusive.
“To any African American in our community, when they see Robert E. Lee, they’re not feeling warm and welcomed,” said the church’s lead pastor Duane Anders.
The Methodist church, which sits on 11th St. in Boise’s North End, was built in 1960. At the time, a giant stained-glass window was installed that mainly depicts early Christian leaders, except for a panel at the top. The upper panel features George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Robert E. Lee standing shoulder to shoulder.
As he spoke to his students during a Zoom lesson earlier this month, the northern Virginia middle school social studies teacher called the attempted coup at the Capitol on Jan. 6 “a setup.”
He would know, he said. He was there.
(snip)
Plummer defended the mob that marched to the Capitol as “incredibly peaceful” and “Christians,” and instead told his young class at the diverse Fred M. Lynn Middle School that the summer’s Black Lives Matter protesters were to blame for “destroying cities.”
The story behind BYU and Boise State
football players joining hands to pray
after their game 5 replies
football players joining hands to pray
after their game 5 replies
BYU and Boise State players made a striking image Friday night as they held each others’ hands and knelt together on the blue turf of Boise’s Albertsons Stadium after a game between two nationally ranked football teams.
Pastor Mark Thornton stood in their midst and prayed over them as some players bowed heads and others lifted faces heavenward. Virtually every player from both teams participated. The massive huddle between what normally are on-field rivals covered the logo at midfield and sprawled for 15 yards.
Nuclear power providing energy for some cities in Utah and five other states in the West is inching closer to reality after federal regulators endorsed the design of a planned small modular reactor plant at Idaho National Laboratory. (snip) ... the reactors can’t melt down, can’t be hacked and the plant does not have to be shut down to be refueled. The reactors are underground and submerged in an 80-foot pool.
One of Boise’s largest churches is removing a controversial reminder of Idaho’s connections to the Confederacy — a stained-glass window featuring Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
The Cathedral of the Rockies installed stained-glass windows for its then-new building in downtown Boise in 1960. Church documents show that the window, featuring Lee standing with Presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, was meant as an “inclusive nod to Southerners who have settled in Boise,” said the Rev. Duane Anders, senior pastor.
“Clearly, white Southerners,” Anders said.
The Trump administration on Monday approved the largest solar installation in U.S. history, giving its blessing to a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiary’s 690-megawatt project just north of Las Vegas.
When finished, NV Energy’s estimated $1 billion Gemini Solar Project is set to become the eighth-largest solar power facility in the world, spanning some 7,100 acres (2873 hectares) of federal land and generating enough electricity to power 260,000 homes in the region. The current record for a solar plant is 579 megawatts.
How Mitt Romney Decided
Trump Is Guilty 100 replies
Trump Is Guilty 100 replies
Mitt Romney didn’t want to go through with it.
“This has been the most difficult decision I have ever had to make in my life,” he told me yesterday afternoon in his Senate office. Roughly 24 hours later, Romney would deliver a speech announcing that he was voting to convict President Donald Trump on the first article of impeachment—abuse of power.
Monty Python stars have led the tributes to their co-star Terry Jones, who has died at the age of 77.
The Welsh actor and writer played a variety of characters in the iconic comedy group's Flying Circus TV series, and directed several of their films.
He died on Tuesday, four years after contracting a rare form of dementia known as FTD.
David Walliams and Simon Pegg were among other comedians who remembered him.
Fellow Python star Sir Michael Palin described Jones as "one of the funniest writer-performers of his generation".
In a tweet, John Cleese said he was "a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm".
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic Party nominee for president, said Sunday on NBC’s “Today” that if former President Donald Trump won the presidency in 2024, it “could be the end” of U.S. democracy.Clinton said, “If I were a betting person right now, I’d say Trump is going to run again. He seems to be setting himself up to do that, and if he’s not held accountable, then he gets to do it again. I think that could be the end of our democracy. Not to be too pointed about it, but I want people to understand that this is a make-or-break point. If he or someone
Never-Trumper Chris Wallace announced on Sunday that he is leaving FOX News.Wallace is most famous for joining the Democrat Party, teaming up against President Trump and carrying Joe Biden’s corpse across the finish line in a 2020 presidential debate.Chris Wallace will be joining CNN as an anchor for CNN+, a streaming subscription service – and he is “delighted” to work with Jeff Zucker.“I am thrilled to join CNN+. After decades in broadcast and cable news, I am excited to explore the world of streaming.
MSNBC network national affairs analyst John Heilemann said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that there were “30 million people right now who are ready to take up arms” for former President Donald Trump.Anchor Chuck Todd said, “I want to read what Bart Gellman wrote in the cover story for The Atlantic. Some might say it is hyperbolic, but John Heilemann, I’m curious if you think it is? The headline is Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun. ‘Trump and his party convinced a dauntingly large number of Americans, that the essential workings of democracy are corrupt, that the made-up claims of fraud are true, that only cheating can
The top US emergency management official has claimed that more powerful, destructive, and deadly storms will be the 'new normal' due to climate change, following Kentucky's devastating tornadoes. 'This is going to be our new normal,' Deanne Criswell, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told CNN Sunday before heading to Kentucky to assess the damage and help coordinate the federal response.'The effects that we're seeing from climate change are the crisis of our generation,' the FEMA chief added.Warm weather from a La Nina pattern was a crucial ingredient in the tornado outbreak that decimated western Kentucky on Friday,
Well, that didn’t take long for the obvious to hit the news wires. As my colleague Bonchie reported earlier on Sunday, Fox News chief Washington anchor and the host of “Fox News Sunday,” Chris Wallace signed off for good this week in the waning moments of the broadcast. And in doing so, speculated that we all knew where the longtime Fox guy would land. Axios: (emphasis original) Long-time “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace is leaving the network after nearly two decades, he announced Sunday. He will be joining CNN as an anchor for its new streaming service, CNN+. I am thrilled to join
Peggy Noonan doesn’t always get it right (no one does) but when she does, liberal heads explode. Case in point, her column this week for the Wall Street Journal. Noonan hits the nail on the head with her brutally honest assessment of Kamala Harris as vice-president. Leftists are in need of a safe space.
The purpose of the column is to point out that Kamala is rightly being criticized for her unseriousness and incompetence in office. Americans are worried about that because it is a threat to our country. She is a heartbeat away from being the most powerful politician on earth
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday reiterated a warning from the United States and its allies that Russia could face 'massive consequences' if it continued its 'reckless and aggressive' actions against Ukraine. 'We are looking at and we are prepared to take the kinds of steps we've refrained from taking in the past that would have massive consequences for Russia,' Blinken told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd. He also said an in-person meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin 'seems pretty unlikely' while Russia continues on a concerning path. The country's top diplomat was in the United Kingdom this weekend where he met with his counterparts
Powerful storms like the ones that tore through parts of the central United States this weekend are the "new normal" in an era of climate change, the top federal emergency management official said on Sunday. Deanne Criswell, the FEMA administrator, said her agency was prepared to bolster resilience in the face of more severe weather.
"This is going to be our new normal," Criswell told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." "The effects we are seeing of climate change are the crisis of our generation," Criswell said. "We're taking a lot of efforts at FEMA to work with communities to help reduce the impacts that we're seeing
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, one of the few high-profile news personalities who retained a reputation of integrity as the channel he worked for leaned hard into right-wing and conspiratorial programming, announced Sunday that he is departing the network and joining CNN+ to host a weekday show. [snip] Shortly after his announcement, CNN announced that Wallace will join CNN+, the news organization's streaming product launching in early 2022, to host a show featuring interviews with newsmakers "across politics, business, sports and culture."
Buttigieg's husband mocks Biden admin
restarting student loan payments next
month: 'No thank you' 33 replies
restarting student loan payments next
month: 'No thank you' 33 replies
The husband of U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appears less than enthusiastic about having to repay his student loans.
Chasten Buttigieg, who recently became a father to newborn twins with the transportation secretary, posted a screenshot on Instagram Saturday of a notification that his student loan relief from the COVID-19 pandemic will expire on January 31, 2022.
"These are the guys who complained that they couldn’t afford rent in DC on Pete’s $220K salary (and all their money from writing books)," Republican strategist Matt Whitlock commented. "A good reminder that the left’s ‘cancel student loan debt’ goal would overwhelmingly help financially comfortable people."
Chris Wallace, whose stewardship of two presidential debates and penetrating interviews of world leaders made him the leading anchor of Fox News’s reportorial ranks, announced on Sunday that he had decided to leave the Rupert Murdoch-owned network after 18 years.
He will become an anchor for CNN+, the new streaming service from CNN that is expected to debut next year.
A devastating new poll for President Joe Biden released on Sunday shows Americans disagreeing with his handling of nearly every issue currently plaguing the United States. As inflation rises to the highest level in 40 years, just 28 percent of Americans believe he's handing it right while 69 percent disapprove. Biden is losing Americans' faith on the foreign policy front as well. After his two-hour video call with Vladimir Putin on his aggressive actions toward Ukraine last week, only 38 percent of Americans have faith he can negotiate with the Russian leader. Sixty-two percent of poll respondents said they have
Comments:
Yay! The Boise Methodists WOKE! (No mention of female Bishop Kelly's sexual orientation; if she was a lesbian, ALL the boxes were checked.) I'm not a member of the congregation, but their cathedral is gorgeous! (Was before - still is, I'm sure.)