Archive for the 'politics' Category

“What does it matter to me?”

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

I often find myself listening to talk radio during the mid-to-late morning hours. During these fine hours there are two voices that I am able to frequently switch between, both, as is normative for talk radio, are supposedly representative of the conservative/right wing point of view. Please take note of my usage of the word [...]

Health and Care

Monday, August 17th, 2009

I’ve made several forays into the healthcare debate. I’ve twittered about it, I’ve made some facebook statements, I’ve read countless articles, listened to the thoughts of the other side (both when they are well spoken, and when they are Glenn Beck level freakouts). I’ve listened to talk radio (not advisable to those with high blood [...]

Food and the (coming) Revolution

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

I view the act of eating as a religious act. One in which I feel the least number of steps between the ground and our plates is the more religious route, one in which organic food (where the essential rape of the Earth does not play a part in the ‘food cycle’) is the more [...]

Adding my two cents into the “disappointed emergent” conversation.

Friday, June 5th, 2009

So, every few months we manage to find one post and it creates some massive waves around the emergent/ing blogosphere. We (at this point in time I speak for emergenT) seem to really like the posts that have to do with emergent dying. I wrote one of those myself (unfortunetely all the comments were lost [...]

Taken (captive by our love for violence)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

I really need to quit with the dualist titles. After a conversation with my best friend about the film and this post, I feel I should clarify- Take this more as a review than an indictment on those who liked it, or the entirety of the genre in general. My best friend had some other [...]

the theolotics (of atonement theory)

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

I stated a few months ago that “If our beliefs do not inform the actions of our everyday lives, they are dead.” When I wrote that post I meant the idea of our beliefs informing our actions as a good thing, but Blake twittered a link that actually leads down the other side of the [...]

Letters from the future (pt-1)

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Hey Matt, have you read this new letter from Focus on the Family? It’s a fictionalized letter from a Christian in the year 2012. Normally when one thinks of 2012 they remember all the talk of the end of the world, with the way this letter is written one might think that the world did [...]

My Thoughts on Palin

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Now that we’ve had (just under) three weeks to get to know Governor Palin, I think it’s time I posted some of my thoughts on the whole thing. I’ll start by saying that I was quite shocked when the Governor was announced, and was somewhat convinced that the whole thing was a joke. I assumed [...]

The Parable of the Fish and the Fishermen

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Disclaimer: I am neither a writer, nor Jesus, thus the following parable is of shoddy craftsmanship, and barely sufficient to convey my point. There was a rich man who had three sons. He decided that it was time his sons left his household to make their way into the world. Growing up rich, these sons [...]

Live Blog: McCain’s speech

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

This’ll be my fist live blog, so I don’t know how well it’s going to go over (and the fact that it’ll go late and I will be up at five in the morning), but we’ll give it a shot and see how it turns out. I think I’ll do a test run during the [...]

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