Pen-Elayne on the Web

Melanie's Friends

Melanie Mattson really ought to be on more blogrolls. The last two days she's signed off Just a Bump in the Beltway with a couple terrific links - on Thursday she linked to Le Prêtre Noir, the blog of Episcopal priest Father Bojangles, specifically his musings on the divine call for humanity to Be Fruitful and Multiply; and yesterday she excerpted from a Guardian piece on Garrison Keillor, with whom she has more than a passing acquaintance. What I like best about Melanie's contacts and friends and, I presume, her philosophy is the idea that one can be driven by deep spirituality to want to right the wrongs in the world without lashing out at the radical-rightists who seem to have stolen the religious spotlight whilst twisting the edicts they say they espouse from "love thy neighbor" to "God is on our side and our side only." Update: Another of Melanie's friends, Allen of The Right Christians, tells the story of a Right Jew.