Duluth nun, raised as an atheist, blogs about life and faith [View All]

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Posted on Mon, Feb. 26, 2007

LINDA HANSON
Duluth News Tribune

... Sister Bogue's parents were atheists. "It was the religion in our household," she said. "Dad's creed was that no intelligent person believes in God." ...

Sister Bogue has worked at the College of St. Scholastica since 2002. She's an assistant professor and teaches family sociology, statistics, social issues and honors courses on such topics as the death penalty, conspicuous consumption and environmental sociology ...

Sometimes she wonders if she is just amusing herself with the blog but then she reminds herself it's better than mindlessly sitting in front of a television ...

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/16788740.htm


Saturday, February 24
Fr Greg Boyle - Catholic Studies Lecture

We heard a great speaker at the College of Saint Scholastica on Thursday night ... Fr Greg Boyle, a Jesuit, works with gang members in one of the poorest areas of Los Angeles ...

Several months ago, a homie named Carlos shows up in my office and he had just been released from Corcoran State Prison. He'd been locked up for ten years, since he was fourteen ...

... I sent him to work on Tuesday at our Homeboy silkscreen factory, which is our biggest business. We have all these enemy gang members who work side by side with each other, nearly a thousand gang members have passed through there since '98 ... On Wednesday I'm just curious how he's doing ...

... He goes, "Yeah, yesterday after work I'm tired and I'm dirty and I'm sitting in the back of the bus. I could not help myself. I kept turning to people on the bus, total strangers, "I'm just coming back from my first day at work!" "Just got back. First day on the job."
And of course I'm imagining the people on the bus. You know, maybe their thinking, "Who the hell would hire this guy?" and maybe mothers are clutching their kids closer to themselves, and maybe somebody looks at him and thinks, "What a waste of a good job."

The prophet Isaiah writes, "In this place of which you say it is a waste there will be heard again the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voices of those who sing" ...

http://edithosb.blogspot.com/