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Category: Politics

  • Deal or No Deal?

    Ok.  I hope you’ve read Beth’s post.  Pretty slick for her first post, huh?  Let’s talk about this bail out. My question is pretty simple.  Why are we (the taxpayers) bailing out Wall Street?  Here are three quotes from W’s speech last night (you can read the full transcript here): Easy credit, combined with the…

  • Vote!

    I’ve already voted.  Have you?

  • Live Election Results

    Here’s live election results for tomorrow.  I hope you have voted already or plan to!  And vote smart!!!

  • Best Election Metric Ever!

    On the way home today, I told Cameron – my four-year-old – that I wanted to listen to the radio.  When he asked why, I told him that there were two men who wanted to be in charge of the country and that tonight was the night we’d find out who it would be. I wanted to…

  • Yes We Can!

    Tonight, citizens of these United States voiced themselves in record numbers.  Tonight, an idea expressed by some has been embraced by many.  Tonight, the winds of change have swept in from the windy city through a mighty nation.  Tonight, a country has been called to begin anew, to begin together, to begin with courage, to…

  • Separation

    I’m struggling.  It’s been over a month, and I still don’t understand how we as humans – we as Christians (and yes, there are many different “versions” of Christians) – could take a class of people and send a message of “less than equal.”  You aren’t living your lives correctly, so you can’t have the…

  • Health Care in the World’s Richest Nation

    Beth’s been receiving bills lately. Now, I know that we all have to pay our bills. She’s been receiving bills from a doctor’s office because her insurance isn’t paying it. She received some lab services through her doctor’s office and it seems the insurance company didn’t think it would be important to test to see…

  • A Methodist & an Atheist Walk Into a Bar…

    I’ve had some ongoing dialogue with an atheist (I’ve also heard the phrase non-theist) friend of mine.  Yesterday he posted on my Facebook page a Daily Beast article quoting Orange County Pastor Wiley Drake who appears to be calling for the deaths of Congress members – and perhaps others – who support health care reform…

  • Politics in the Pulpit

    Politics in the Pulpit

    So yesterday I preached on Acts 11:1-18 (Peter’s vision that prompted him to preach to the Gentiles) and John 13:31-35 (Jesus gives the disciples a new commandment: to love one another). In it, I applied the idea of “love in action” to the new immigration law in Arizona. I have to admit that I was…

  • Wesley’s Quadrilateral & Arizona’s Immigration Law

    Wesley’s Quadrilateral is applied to the recently signed immigration law in Arizona…