Why Sullivan matters…

November 5, 2007

Andrew Sullivan can get under your skin every now and then if you’re a progressive like me, but he’s important and right on quite a bit of the time. He’s particularly insightful in his analysis of how America’s (somewhat behind-the-scenes but more and more a part of the public debate) acceptance of Torture in its [...]

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Its not that I don’t have anything to say…

October 12, 2007

It just that I don’t have any time to say it. Been swamped between work and rest (yes, took some RnR last week, and went to the Emergent Village 2007 gathering while taking in the New Mexico sights…) and now have been busy busy busy watching my kids while my wife is out of town. [...]

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Ghost Ranch advert…

September 7, 2007

Just a small blurb about Ghost Ranch that I found interesting… Ghost Ranch is a Presbyterian-affiliated conference center in Abiquiu, New Mexico. I love Ghost Ranch. I went there several times as a child with my family, and I volunteered there a summer as a College Mission Worker. My wife and I have been there [...]

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Top 10 Outrageous things said by Christians…

August 3, 2007

As heard (and reported) by Tony Marr. Thanks to Jim the church geek for the pointer. My favorite: 7. “How dare you try and bully my daughter. We have be preparing and planning her future for years and I am not going to let you persuade her away from our plans. I could have you [...]

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Diggin’ me some Jesus…

June 27, 2007

I’ve not been tagged before, but I just now saw that The Church Geek did me the favor the other day. So here, in no particular order, are 5 things I dig about Jesus: Jesus teaches us some very important things about God. In Jesus’ crucifixion, we see that God is willing to dwell in [...]

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Does going to college make our youth less religious…?

June 15, 2007

Here is Kevin Drum’s Washington Monthly post today entitled “Secular Humanism“: As we all know, our universities were long ago taken over by an elite cadre of latte-quaffing, postmodern, anti-American ultra-liberals. That’s what National Review says, anyway. But I’ve always wondered just what actual effect this has on America’s youth. Do kids become more liberal [...]

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Your government, my government, tortures its prisoners…

June 8, 2007

Is there any other way to read this?: Today the Council of Europe makes it official: Poland and Romania hosted secret detention facilities on behalf of the CIA. In a just-released inquiry approved by the Council, investigator Dick Marty of Switzerland confirms Dana Priest’s Pulitzer Prize-winning report for the Washington Post that unnamed Eastern European [...]

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True Love waits…?

May 31, 2007

Interesting article, Even Evangelical Teens Do It, over at Slate: … Teenagers who identify as “evangelical” or “born again” are highly likely to sound like the girl at the bar; 80 percent think sex should be saved for marriage. But thinking is not the same as doing. Evangelical teens are actually more likely to have [...]

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