Politics
Making Sarah Palin Look Dumb
It’s too bad that disingenuity, self-interest, and lack of interest in “the facts” seem to drive the political machine. From the AtlanticWire’s “breakdown” of Sarah Palin’s O’Reilly Factor interview November 19, 2009, rebroadcast late December: Palin on Reading O’REILLY: Couric asked you an easy question [about what magazines or newspapers... »
What’s Yours is Ours: Thoughts on the Christian Collective and Socialism as Policy
So, is this a model for Christian life today, not just in America, but everywhere? Can it be? Should it be? If it is, then it cannot be merely spiritually neutral, can it? Specifically, if we see it institutionally implemented as a transformation of society from a non-socialist status quo to one that is,... »
Brit Hume on Tiger and (Me on) Tolerance
As is now common knowledge, Fox News’ Brit Hume has suggested Tiger Woods convert to the Christian faith, as his best bet for full “transgression” recovery and perhaps even greater role-model-dom than before. Bravo, Mr. Hume. Unfortunately, his words have not been met with the same spirit in which they were offered.... »
Finding the Center: Ecumenism and the Manhattan Declaration
It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each communion is really closest to every other in spirit, if not in doctrine. And this suggests that at the centre of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of... »
The Plimoth Experiment
In journaling the Plymouth settlement’s early years, William Bradford writes, “…All this whille no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expecte any. So they begane to thinke how they might raise as much torne as they could, and obtaine a beter crope then they had done, that they might... »
The Manhattan Declaration
Not just any pro-life, pro-family, pro-ethics statement, the Manhattan Declaration is a call to civil disobedience if (when) the government legislates that people of conscience support abortion, eugenics, and same-sex marriages in their professions and with their tax dollars. The last paragraph of the declaration states: “Because we honor justice and the common good, we will... »
The Good Mommy Paradox
What are societal expectations of a mother these days, and how is she assisted in meeting them? How does society judge a mother? I give you two (fictitious, but entirely plausible) scenarios: Mother A: Sends Johnny off to school in the morning. Johnny spends the day at school, eats a taxpayer-subsidized... »
On Culture Wars and the National Debt
In a recent Breakpoint Commentary, Chuck Colson points out that The Next Culture War deemed necessary by NYT columnist David Brooks isn’t exactly new. “According to Brooks, while Christians ‘were arguing about sex and the separation of church and state,’ they were ‘oblivious to the large erosion of economic values happening under their... »
One Awesome Parent Coming Through–Me!
ADDENDUM: My dear hubby asked me to put some context into this note. This note came out of my reaction against a string of comments left on Facebook (Jonathan McIntosh’s status update asking “Why would you be against the President speaking to public school kids?”) With comments like: o “I do want to start a... »
