The Anti-Manichaeist

I also recommend the letter written by Caleb McDaniel. Though, the man needs to learn that all of us who live in the Americas are Americans, and so his fellow country-people would be USAmericans. He also comes down with the same position that Amy Sullivan was saying at PoliticalAims. Liberal Democrats need […]

Others like my friend Matt at A Pilgrim’s Digression and Terry Mattingly at GetReligion are pointing to the need for the Dems to try some accomodation/compromise with religious conservatives to prevent another 2004 election from taking place. Matt focuses on the rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh’s recent lambast of two liberal writers characterization of why […]

I’ve got too much to say, today, and so I’m going to try to keep all of it, relatively short.
First, I am writing from Mexico where the topic of the US election comes up all the time. Nearly everyone I talk to here is knowledgeable that it was white USEvangelicals that reelected the president […]

As many have blogged already, it seems white conservative “evangelicals” ensured Bush’s reelection, yesterday. I think our ability to determine who is the most powerful person in the world should give us reason to pause and reflect on the responsibility that comes with such power. I get goose-bumps thinking about how this will […]

The election hasn’t been called at this point, but from the district level analysis being done in Ohio, it doesn’t look good for Kerry.
I keep thinking what if my idea on compromising on abortion had received wider circulation and been taken on by Kerry? Maybe it would have made a difference. I get […]

Doug Pagitt is a well known MN emerging church thinker and pastor who graduated from my seminary and was the main guest speaker at our beginning of the year kick-off.
He poses an interesting question that should be made to both main candidates and all partisans.
Given the fact that the other guy has the potential to […]

Passion is not high emotion but a steely determination, fired by love, to stay centered in the awareness of Christ’s present risenness, a drivenness to remain rooted in the truth of who I am, and a readiness to pay the price of fidelity.
Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child p.137
I need more serenity, a willingness to accept that […]