The Body Politik

So yeah. Today our new bumper stickers and my new hat came in the mail……

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Thoughts on Election Day

I’ve been thinking about the mid-term elections quite a bit in the last three days. Among the many things that caught my attention was this one: almost half of the races on my ballet were completely uncontested. Uncontested. No one ran against these guys. They may have been so wonderful at what they did that [...]

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With God on Our Side (Bob Dylan)

Oh my name it is nothin’ My age it means less The country I come from Is called the Midwest I’s taught and brought up there The laws to abide And that land that I live in Has God on its side. Oh the history books tell it They tell it so well The cavalries [...]

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Dancing with the Devil

8mm, with Nicolas Cage, remains one of the two movies I wish I could “unsee” (the other one, for comparison, is another Nicolas Cage movie Con Air which I dislike for an entirely different reason – mainly because it is just such a terrible film). In one of the most disturbing movies ever made, Joaquin [...]

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I Tried To Keep Silent…

…but sometimes I just can’t.  Today, as I’ve been following the downward spiral in the middle east, I’ve been reading this article and was amazed at the wisdom of our Commander in Chief. It’s no surprise that I am not a fan of GWB’s, but he now seems to be exhibiting the wisdom many of [...]

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Wars And Their Rumours…

Watching all of the news recently has made me very eager, longing for the time when the Prince of Peace will come and establish His Kingdom once and for all.  Seeing things blow up once again with Israel, this time with Lebanon.  I won’t even get involved in the politics of this one: who’s wrong, [...]

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Theology and Economics

Recently I’ve been reading through the writings of Michael Kruse. Mike is currently serving on the General Assembly Council for the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA). Having read an article he published over at The Ooze, entitled Respiratory Failure in the Presbyterian Church (USA), I emailed him to thank him for his article and his insight, describing [...]

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On National Idolatry

I ran across this article a few weeks ago and thought it was really a great synopsis of the tension many of us feel around this time of year. I wanted to post it here for you< I hope you don’t mind, Bob. I originally found the article on Open Source Theology, through a link [...]

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The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Man

Having developed and taught a series of classes on how we, as the Church, should live in and among the current culture in which we find ourselves, the topic of our praxis (e.g. practical application of our faith) finding an accurate expression of the Kingdom of God Life is always close to my heart. I’ve [...]

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How Rich Are You?

I’m sure you’ve seen these tools all over the internet that compare your monetary worth to the rest of the global population. If you’ve never seen one or have never tried one, you can here. Now, besides the obvious skewing of the data on things like this (comparing your income to that of 3 year [...]

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