Category: Christianity

Reasons to oppose healthcare

 Not original with me and only tangentially related to ME-interests, but worth repeating nonetheless… Although efforts have been made to reform the healthcare industry since 1912, we should not be too hasty in enacting change. The federal government has no business interfering in people’s healthcare decisions, unless a woman is trying to terminate a pregnancy, …

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Left behind

 Friends, I’ve been on this soapbox for many years now, but if you still insist that the hard-core beliefs of the fringes of American Christianity have no bearing on events on the other side of this space-traveling mudball, then read this interesting bit:  http://blog.sojo.net/2009/06/03/the-day-i-got-left-behind/

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Spring griping

 Some thoughts re. this morning’s service (the first one).  Actually, not all are directly related to today’s events; some of these have been building for a while and others are basically the same things I’ve griped about before.  You’re welcome to write them off as the grumblings of an incorrigible curmudgeon, but I’ll feel better …

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Personal reflections

 My pastor John, methinks, probably wonders if I too often connect disparate ideas and events by the thinnest of threads.  There is an old tradition in the Middle East regarding when the feasts of Ramadan begin and end; as long as there is enough daylight to discern between a black and white thread, fasting must continue.  Once they …

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All along the watchtower

 Having just finished a book that extols the virtue of harmonizing right-wing elements of Protestant and Roman Catholic Christianity (see http://tinyurl.com/b3levz and http://tinyurl.com/ahashg), I found the following Fisk commentary on papal perspective most interesting.  And more than a bit alarming…  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fiskrsquos-world-examine-the-popes-words-and-theres-only-one-thing-to-conclude-1634266.html and/or  ttp://tinyurl.com/avwuz3  Fisk’s last paragraph And what do I make of all this? Well, I don’t think the …

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Book review: The Faith

 My suspicion, somewhat validated by the more critical articles I’ve read, is that Colson’s alarmist worldview stems in large part from what he sees as an Islamic encroachment on his prison ministry.  He has become a darling of the right-wing “news” entertainment circuit — Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, etc. — by bashing gays, espousing unregulated capitalism, and hawking Bush’s …

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Haunted

 Here’s the cross that has haunted me ever since I saw it two years ago in Clarksdale, Mississippi, at a place called “Cat Head Blues.”

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