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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ll admit, my last post took a bit of a different direction than I originally intended, I meant to take an overview of the letter and go from there. After reading over it a few times I think I got so incensed that I felt like I wanted to tear it apart. Bit by bit [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The idea of perfection has been something that has bothered me for the past few weeks. It started about three weeks ago when I heard Limbaugh (yeah, I listen to conservative talk radio) bashing Obama for admitting that the US isn’t perfect. Gasp, oh no, we might let the world in on a secret that [...]