VP Nominee Tim Walz: The Man Who Referred to as Bizarre “Bizarre”

The newly nominated vice-presidential candidate chosen by Vice President Kamala Harris seems to be the folksy and midwestern straight-talker, Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota. 

He’s most well-known for sharing easy-to-grasp language whereas making an attempt to carry up values that put individuals and the local weather first (they do type of go collectively in spite of everything).  It doesn’t damage that he has overseen a farming state for eight years as governor, and grew up near the earth in a Nebraska city of 400 individuals, and that he is aware of concerning the relation of local weather and soil and meals and human and different species’ interdependence.

He’s finest generally known as the person who referred to as bizarre “bizarre.” His suggestion that a number of speak from ex-president Donald Trump and his operating mate DJ Vance is simply plain “bizarre” has caught on.   I concur:

Is it bizarre to be caught mendacity 35,000 occasions as president? 

Is it bizarre to be operating for president with 34 felony convictions underneath your belt (and extra on the way in which)? 

Is it bizarre to be operating for president whereas dashing back and forth between the golf course, occasional political rallies and court docket appearances as a result of as president you referred to as for the overturn of the federal government on the day of certifying the election votes?

Is it bizarre to have referred to as for invading the nations’ capitol the day election outcomes have been licensed and folks responded in variety leading to seven individuals useless, tons of of law enforcement officials maimed, 1000+ in jail, whereas saying your social gathering is about “regulation and order” and loves the police? 

Is it bizarre to be operating for president and promoting Bibles which have American flags on them?  And gold trainers with American flags on them? And baseball playing cards with over-the-top portraits of you in heroic fantasy roles?

Is it bizarre to reward the dictator and warmonger Putin when he releases American hostages as an alternative of acknowledging the accomplishment of President Biden for bringing them dwelling?

Is it bizarre to inform American voters that if elected, they are going to by no means must vote once more?

Sure, a number of weirdness happening.  Unusual issues.  Unusual gods earlier than us.  I feel vice presidential nominee Tim Walz type of nailed it in mid-western plain communicate when he elevated the phrase “bizarre.” 

Hopefully, sufficient voters will select to vote who know the distinction between bizarre and its reverse.  What’s its reverse? 

To be continued.

See Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society.

And Fox, Julian of Norwich: Knowledge in a Time of Pandemic—and Past.

Banner Picture: Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz collectively in March 2024, previous to the beginning of the Harris 2024 marketing campaign. Photograph by the Workplace of Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan on Wikimedia Commons

Queries for Contemplation

What examples of “bizarre” do you sense happening in our political sphere as of late?  And its reverse?

Advisable Studying

Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society

Visionary theologian and best-selling creator Matthew Fox gives a brand new theology of evil that basically adjustments the standard notion of fine and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened therapy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Jap custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to suppose creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them. 
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anyone single science.  A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, creator of Quantum Theology: Religious Implications of the New Physics

Julian of Norwich: Knowledge in a Time of Pandemic–and Past

Julian of Norwich lived by way of the dreadful bubonic plague that killed near 50% of Europeans. Being an anchoress, she ‘sheltered in place’ and developed a deep knowledge that she shared in her e-book, Showings, which was the primary e-book in English by a girl. A theologian approach forward of her time, Julian develops a feminist understanding of God as mom on the coronary heart of nature’s goodness. Fox shares her teachings on this highly effective and well timed and galvanizing e-book.
“What an completely magnificent e-book. The work of Julian of Norwich, lovingly supported by the genius of Matthew Fox, is a roadmap into the center of the eco-spiritual reality that every one life breathes collectively.”  –Caroline Myss
Now additionally accessible as an audiobook HERE.