Where It Belongs

My wife Rachel told me this morning that we’ve been asked (by email) not to use the new Dollar coins.  They allegedly have left off the “In God We Trust.”  I say allegedly because a quick check at snopes proved otherwise.
My first reaction, though, was to remember Jesus’ famous “render unto Caesar” teaching, as in [...]

Even when Wright is Wrong

Barack Obama has removed his membership from Trinity United Church of Christ, where he had been a member for 20 years.  The primary reason, of course, is to separate himself from the caustic remarks of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the long-time pastor at Trinity.
Here’s what I wonder about all this: who are Hillary Clinton’s and John [...]

Goods and Problems

My father-in-law sent me this article from the Boston Globe.  Here is the key paragraph, at least by my judgment:
Poverty and wealth, by this logic, don’t just fall along a continuum the way hot and cold or short and tall do. They are instead fundamentally different experiences, each working on the human psyche in its [...]

Good News on Good Friday

Courtesy Ben Witherington, Check out this article about Mikhail Gorbachev.  He (Gorbachev) is a Christian.
I “shared” this from Ben’s blog, so it is available by clicking on the link in the upper left corner of this page.   But I thought this story interesting enough to post it here, too.

Civic Duty

Rachel and I took a few minutes at lunch and voted. In line behind us at McLennan County Precinct 47 polling place what what seemed to be a rather unhappy woman.
She made a point of telling us all she wouldn’t be voting Democrat, then, as an afterth0ught, admitted that she would in fact be voting [...]

Election Solution

It’s almost primary season for the 2008 Presidential elections.  Here’s a prediction made by Lore Sjöberg of Wired.
With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battling it out, the Democratic Party urges the two to set aside their differences and combine their genetic material in vitro to create the perfect candidate, who will be aged artificially in [...]

Ron Paul, the Cross, and Facism

Courtesy of Sharper Iron, I’ve learned of Mike Huckabee’s “Cross ad” (they don’t play campaign ads in Texas, apparently), and of Ron Paul’s commentary, which, according to the title fo the Sharper Iron piece, “links the cross and facism.”
Do’t go off half-cocked like I did upon reading that.  Read further (I did that, too).
Paul was [...]

Haunting words from 3 years ago

Doing research for this Sunday, I ran across this from Theodore J. Wardlaw, President of Austin Presbyterian Seminary.  He spoke these words in December of 2004:
In spite of how much I’ve wanted to support and encourage some of you who are heading toward military chaplaincies and, [...]

news?

I heard a spot on Morning Edition on NPR this morning about Secretary of Staet Condoleezza Rice’s visit to the Middle East this morning that got me thinking. 
No, that the U.S. sends a high level diplomat to the Middle East isn’t what got me thinking.  The reporter explained that this particular story would start with [...]

Good enough to run again

John the Methodist at Locusts and Honey shared this great clip of Jon Stewart and Chris Mathews.
Several years ago now, Stewart was on Crossfire, and this segment is credited by many for bringing about the demise of that CNN cornerstone. This is just the first segment. Tucker Carlson makes an even bigger fool of himself [...]