a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
I received this from Sojourner’s today. I thought it might be of interest to some of you. Dear Alan, Bush’s budget proposals: * Making permanent the tax cuts of 2001 – 70% of which benefited the wealthiest 20% of U.S. citizens * The elimination of block grants that aid poor communities * Making it more [...]
I didn’t actually have anything to drink yesterday, but I feel like I did. I have a terrible headache and all I want to do is lay around in bed. Maybe it is self-induced for the pain of knowing the Patriots are getting labeled a “dynasty.” How easy it is nowadays to be called a [...]
I’m a heretic. That doesn’t surprise some of you, but I am. Maybe heretic is too strong a word, since I’m more agnostic about the particular point I want to discuss. So I guess I’m just toying with heresy? I think it totally unnecessary and quite possibly harmful to our understanding of Christ to define [...]
This is the world we now live in. Teenage girls sued (successfully) for dropping off cookies to an unsuspecting neighbor. The only thing I see they did wrong is that 10:30 PM was kind of late. But the girls had the common sense to only knock on doors of houses where the lights were on [...]
Now this is classic
Sometimes I think I need to quit posting to message boards. The medium is so faulty when it comes to conveying tone. I know I’ve been posting a couple of times tonight, and the posts are going to be taken as though I were very angry. Truth is, I was watching Friends and Will and [...]
What is it that makes us not do things we know we should be doing? I’m having such a motivation problem right now. And I really don’t know what to do about it. I have so much important stuff that needs to be done, but I find myself doing the things I want to. Or [...]