Update: Well, my wife thinks it’s a cop out and Russell Shaw says "What a Bunch Of Hooey!" But I like it because I think it’s true. I’d have picked "Us," but I’m not going to quibble over singular versus plural. You write on the Internet. You look up things on the Internet. You elected […]
How cool is that? 1999 2005
World AIDS Day: Fighting AIDS "includes the ABC approach, encouraging abstinence, being faithful, and using condoms, with abstinence as the only sure way to avoid the sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS," said Bush.
I was thinking about tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, and its history. The original was to celebrate the survival of the Pilgrims, after a grim winter. Last year, this time, we had our first group Thanksgiving at Stump Hill, a playhouse we built for such gatherings. It was a grand occasion, but I remember thinking there wasn’t […]
What is the point of the Michael Richards incident? or for that matter, the Mel Gibson incident earlier this year? Well for one thing, Gibson was drunk. Was Richards drunk? He certainly looks like that might be a possibility in the video. Besides that possiblility, he was being heckled and blew up with a remarkable […]
On Point: The real Ted Haggard Here’s what I still want to know about Ted Haggard: Before his downfall last week, was he an anguished sinner, as he now maintains, or merely a calculating pleasure seeker? Was he kicking himself for his weaknesses or laughing at a world full of chumps? Was he sorry all […]
"Father, give us grace and mercy. Father, help us this next week and a half as we go into national elections, and Lord we pray for our country. Father, we pray that lies would be exposed. We pray that deception would be exposed." Pastor Ted Haggard’s Sermon, October 29, 2006 Pastor Ted Haggard’s Letter, November […]
Some years ago, I went to a presentation about religion and psychoanalysis, "Is there a meet?" The speaker was a respected colleague, an academic Biblical scholar who was also a Pastoral Psychotherapist. It was a good presentation with lots of interesting ideas, but there was one point at the end that stood out. He said […]
It’s a beautiful autumn here in the Georgia Mountains. The leaves have turned and started to fall, so the forest floor is carpeted with red and gold. There’s a chill in the mornings, with warm afternoons. This view is from the Tennesse border looking southwest towards where we live. As for the elections, we’ve voted. […]
Watching the NBC Weekend News during supper [so much for any attempt at news restriction], a reporter unknown to me, Rosiland Jordon, was introducing a story about Bush hitting the campaign trail. She said that "for the first time," Americans were getting to see the President "for free." It made me irritated, of course. He’s […]