Nov 12 2006
It’s been a while since I’ve written you directly. I’ve included you on a few other things that I thought you might be interested in, but I’ve fallen behind in rattling your cage. Or mine. It’s all a matter of perspective… First, I enjoyed the sermon today. Not often that you hear Darfur mentioned from …
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Oct 08 2006
It’s Sunday, October 8, and I’ve been reading letters and opinions in today’s paper. One side is right. Everyone else is wrong. I’ve also been thinking all day about the tragedy last week at the Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania… If the Amish had responded as America did after September 11, they would have immediately burned …
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Aug 29 2006
For several months now, a provocative question-and-answer (Q&A) essay has been circulating on the Internet and by e-mail. The essay asks the question “Can a good Muslim be a good American?” and then emphatically answers “NO!” A few days ago, the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary (ABTS) offered its position on each of the points raised …
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Dec 30 2005
I had always wondered how our nation’s founders (terrorist insurgents that they were) argued the merits of their rebellion to a profoundly Christian population, so I did a little Googling on the subject. Turns out to still be a pretty hot topic (732,000 hits). Anyway, I came across an interesting essay at http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/search/detail.php?ResourceID=40. Near the end …
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Aug 29 2005
Michael, I just read your infomercial and browsed through your e-monastary and related e-inn. I’m still giggling, albeit to myself lest my wife think me mad. You are one unusual fellow — a calvinistic Baptist (odd enough) doing pulpit supply at a Presbyterian church! I had heard that Baptists and Presbyterians co-congregated back in the …
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Aug 14 2005
Monroe, It’s Sunday morning. Why aren’t you in church? I hate to bring this up again because I got flamed big-time on the last occasion, but here’s an excerpt from Charlie Reese’s editorial in today’s local paper: All imperialism, even the American form, is ultimately based on social Darwinism, a belief not openly stated these …
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Jun 09 2005
I think that for most people, their religion, philosophy, life’s ambition (or whatever you want to call their primary sense of purpose) has degenerated into a football-fan spectator sport. It no longer matters whether you’re a good steward of the environment, or whether you’re building good relations with your neighbors, or whether you’re gainfully employed …
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