The Anti-Manichaeist

Bob Robinson at Vanguard Church has a great post that points to how the heavy-weights of USAmerican Church History have spoken definitively on how our forefathers were definitely not overwhelmingly of a Christian belief system. 
There were exceptions, particularly members of the Anglican Church who were of evangelical convictions, but the majority of the founding fathers […]

Kudos as Bart Campolo, I have just learned that there is a movement called The Invisible Children dedicated to end a brutal civil war in N. Uganda, where children are being hunted down to fight. 
Apparently, they first made a documentary film titled The Invisible Children and now have an organization committed to  ending the war. 
They have a […]

My friend Matt has a wonderfully written post where he satirizes how a talking head, Natan Sharansky, has described GWB as the dissident president. 
Here’s a snippet…

via Scott Jones, from a different perspective than mine.
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BIG Bill to Be Introduced in the U.S. Congress
Congressman Bob Filner (Democrat from San Diego, California) will introduce a bill in the U.S. Congress in late April 2006, entitled, “A Tax Cut For the Rest of Us.” The preamble of the bill reads, “To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a basic […]

I am becoming more and more convinced that we need more sermons on Selfishness, with particular application to our consumption of our limited God-given resources, such as oil and natural gas.  We are giving too much money to tyranny on account of our hyper-individualism and the consequences of such sin is death. 
Sadly, it seems our […]

This post by Scott Jones is definitely skewed, but I thought it was worth passing along.
He also writes about the Equality Ride and I think helps me to understand some of the good that has come from them bringing up the issue at Christian universities in the US. 
I’ve read some of the responses to Bethel’s […]

Kudos a Josh Marshall for this.  It seems the internet may become more profit-driven with major carriers able to exert significant influence over smaller carriers. 
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ps, one of the owners of TWeb, Cirisme explains what’s going on here and here.  The bottom line is that the telephone companies are trying to gouge almost everybody else and it […]

A Swedish Christian friend wrote me not long ago and complained a little about the high taxes they have there.  I wrote back to him the following.
If I wanted to counter the high taxes, I’d make reference to the Catholic Social Thought principle of subsidiarity.  
 
and I’d also make a big diff between reducing income and wealth […]

I’d like to make the state gov’t unicameral and with a cross between a representative and a majority rule system. We really don’t need two chambers at the state level.  In MN, we could divide up the state into 5 or 6 regions and have representational elections in each region.  So for each region, a party would get […]