The Anti-Manichaeist

This British study shows that when drugs are ranked by their harmfulness, addictiveness and social dysfunction that Alcohol and Tobacco are worse than other drugs like Cannabis or Ectasy that are currently illegal.
Surely there must be something we can do to regulate better these substances?
If only the Religious Right were to make this sort of […]

Check out this Spoof Advertisement for Moscow University.
It does for her what was done versus Hillary via UTube.
As pointed out before, Russia is seriously backsliding from Democracy and thinks it can get away with what it wants because of its oil/gas wealth.  You can find more on the horrors of Neo-Soviet Union Education at La […]

I’m hoping my recent attempts at helpful optimism over at Orange Ukraine go better.  I have found over a 4500 blogs(including mine) that have relatively recently had entries on Ukraine.  These catch my attention, because most Ukrainian newspapers do not have articles written in Ukrainian posted with English translations on the internet.  Hopefully, if the blogs connect, […]

Sojourners has Elnour Adams, a Darfurian, who is now administrator of The Darfur Rehabilitation Project, a U.S.-based Darfurian NGO, mobilizing int’l support to advocate for the rights of Darfurians that have been curtailed significantly recently by the Sudanese Gov’t. 
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I comment over at Orange Ukraine, as even though the principle blogger is largely inactive and somewhat removed from Ukraine, there are a number of Ukrainians who comment there regularly.  But it’s easy to step on people’s feet sometimes in those exchanges.  I haven’t always truly realized the extent of what the Ukrainians have been […]

I found from ESA today a thought-provoking statement on Immigration.
In Scripture, the ethical responsibility of extending hospitality to the stranger is a key requirement of faithfulness. At the center of Christian ethics is the challenge and the opportunity to love the stranger as ourselves and to love the stranger as one with whom Jesus explicitly […]

I just heard back from Brian McLaren’s wife that said Brian was very interested in reading my statement of faith. 
Who knows, maybe we’ll turn it into a decent-selling book together?
I also learned that a study guide and a chapter for his new book “The Secret message of Jesus” is available at his website.  They are worth looking […]

When it comes to describing the recent anti-war protest by Christians in WashDC.
He includes a lot of inside info on the players that made this protest possible.
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I wrote this a year and a quarter ago for a Theology class. 

President Bush, after having had very few veto threats/vetoes in his first six years in office, has now started promising to veto like a banshee on Democrat-led initiatives.
This is the reality of realpolitik in how Bush separates “politics” from normal affairs in his sense of morality.  It does not matter that he is only in […]