The Anti-Manichaeist

Bob Woodward’s book “State of Denial”, paired with his last name, currently racks up 21,100 hits on Google and about 575 on Google News.  
Raw STory writes “According to Woodward, insurgent attacks against coalition troops occur, on average, every 15 minutes, a shocking fact the administration has kept secret,” CBS News reports.”
The long and short seems to be […]

It really is amazing how different this election is in the world of US Evangelicals than the last one.  There is no where near as much polarization.  The MN Star Tribune had an article on how the tone has changed at my alma mater Bethel University.  Apparently, “a new debate about faith and politics is […]

At the end of my last post on the likely passage of Bush’s bill that would permit “interrogation” of detainees, I suggested that maybe the best response would be for those of us who do not trust such “power over” tactics to guarantee our “security” to volunteer to be publicly subjected to the now-legal interrogation […]

After Bush went to the Senate Floor personally, the Senate voted 51-48 to reject ”an amendment that would have restored the rights of foreign suspects deemed as enemy combatants and mostly held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their detentions.”

A friend sent me this and from what I’ve google-researched it seems to be possible that the BushAdmin plans to attack Iran prior to the coming elections. 
More evidence that Bush and Cheney want the Iran war now, before the November elections –Mike Billington, Asia Desk Editor
[sources:  Century Foundation, National Public Radio broadcast of
September 20, 2006.]
MORE SIGNS […]

Honestly, I can’t think of anything but real  honest brokenness on his behalf as preventing serious disaster from coming during the remaing two years of our seriously deluded and naive president. 
President Bush criticized his own intelligence agencies yesterday as “naive” for saying the Iraq war was spreading terror worldwide and rallying new recruits for Al Qaeda. In […]

My Brit Brother in Faith, Solly, posted recently the abstract of what looks like an interesting before and after study of the Roman Catholic Church. 
The Church and the Voice of the Other: The Growth of the Faith Community and Dialogue in the Church A Dissertation by John M. Amankwah March 18, 2005
Abstract
Since the Second Vatican Council […]

Forget Hillary, let’s see if we can get Tony Blair to immigrate to the States and pass a constitutional amendment so he could be made president.
The man has given a rousing farewell speech.  We need more leaders like that over here.  One who won’t be as easily a source of needless controversy as Senator Hillary […]

I am glad to be able to point to Bart Campolo’s new and improved blog and how he’s blogging about his ministry, as a pomo revivalist, roviding his own interpretation to the revivalist spirit that got sparked twenty years ago at the Haystack Revival.   
My POV is that, while the US has never been a […]

The World is definitely changing.  I would take that as a given.  The issue is more about where do we draw the line and throw ourselves on God’s tender mercies and where do we bear our crosses in seeking to foster changes that show love to our neighbors and ourselves? 
I haven’t blogged lately.  It has […]