Massive Poetry Bailout
"Cultural leaders have come together to announce a massive poetry buyout: leveraged and unsecured poems, poetry derivatives, delinquent poems, and subprime poems will be removed from circulation in the biggest poetry bailout since the Victorian era. We believe the plan is a comprehensive approach to relieving the stresses on our literary institutions and markets."
Thank God someone is doing something!
Also: Episcopal Churches Are Helping Those Effected by the Market!
...Admitting that most people in the congregation were "way too raw" to find a silver lining in the events of the past week, Stallings suggested that a potential for one existed in "a slower, more honest assessment of what truly matters to us, a more genuine awareness of what altars we really worship, and, most hopefully, a new look toward the path that leads us to the security that we really need and most deeply want."
Saying that the claim that the day's parable tells listeners something about the kingdom of God is "astonishing," Stallings added that "even if we do manage somehow to theologize it with enough antics and acrobatics to make it palatable in at least that arena of our lives, we stop short from considering it as a possible indictment of our entire system of resource distribution."
Mallonee, Stallings, and others called upon congregants to reach out to others, despite their own anxieties and uncertainties....