The Great (Illegal) Divorce

The AP is running a story about Californian John Marcotte who is trying to get signatures to support a ballot measure that will ban divorce as a response to a ban on gay marriage.  I find this not only amusing, but exactly what was talked about in the comments to this post from last year.  [...]

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Daniel Smith

In my lifetime I have been blessed with the opportunity to know or at least to be exposed to various people that have a magic in them that necessitate a portion of my devotion – my heroes.  Among them are people like my father, who taught me the meaning of selflessness, hard work, and patience, [...]

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Pro-Life?

Reader Josh pointed me to this gallup poll that shows for the first time since they began polling this question in 1995, that more Americans are pro-life then pro-choice.

You may know from some of my posts that I am fairly libertarian on drugs, same-sex marriage, and some other views. But on abortion my conservative [...]

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Detroit Rock Recession City

The Tigers are over .500 (for the time being), all is well…or at least all should be well.  The fact that the Motor City Kitties are number one in the [measly] AL Central and that the Red Wings are in the NHL Western Semifinals are simply not enough to pick up the pieces in Detroit, [...]

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Led To Worship?

In preparation for Easter Sunday a friend of mine invited me to a gathering of people that intended to prepare for the celebration by focusing on the pain of Good Friday and the emptiness of Holy Saturday as a means to fully appreciate the joy of Sunday.  He sent the invitation through evite and used [...]

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Cry Baby

Today I was eating lunch at a friend’s house and the television was on.  The Fellowship of the Ring happened to be playing and if you know me slightly well you probably know that I adore J.R.R. Tolkien’s books and Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films.  So while we cooked and ate our [...]

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Pocket Lent

My favorite time of the year is here!  Some look forward to the Christmas season, and while I admire the cooler weather, shorter days, and magnificent prospect of the Incarnation, it is the Anastasis—the Resurrection—and everything building up to it that I find most compelling.
As an Ecumenical Christian I am often asked (by others and [...]

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Fanaticism

News report coming out of Iraq of a woman – Samira Jassam, 51 – who has been arrested by Iraqi police and confessed to organizing the rapes of 80 women, whom she then would counsel to become suicide bombers to escape that shame (video testimony here).
This hatred is unreal.

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1 Corinthians 13 Tramp Stamp

I don’t even know what to say here.  Perhaps something about the paradox of cultural relevance?  I don’t know…I really don’t know.

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Speculative Theology (part I)

Some people believe that where the Bible is silent, we should also be silent. However, I’m not one of those people. I do believe that where the Bible is silent, we should not be dogmatic, but I think it’s fine to speculate on the theological tip. I am aware that the excesses [...]

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