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The situation for Bush is becoming a little reminiscent of the beginning of Nixon’s 2nd term. Lines like these from The Australian (thanks to a link at Salon.com) reinforce

This is my “wrap-up” commentary for this week’s Bible meditation passage (at our BibleWeek site). In this excerpt (Luke 19:37-48) Jesus enters Jerusalem experiencing public praise and official contempt and conspiracy. I’ll

A recent comment questioned a post I made about the morality of Machiavelli’s principles. Since these are very basic issues of political morality, and seem to me to be

WHAT IS ‘CREATIVE FIDELITY’? In a text I use for my “Life and Teachings of Jesus” class at the college, the author discusses the ‘how-to’ of inter-personal relationships, insisting that there

Here’s ‘todays quotation’ from the email news summary the New York Times sent me. “Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd!” - Pope Benedict XVI He would no doubt say

They pretend that putting all the nation’s governmental power in the un-balanced, unchecked hands of Bush-Cheney-Rove is the really Christian thing to do. Destroying the Constitution is the American

This poet puts things so matter-of-factly, and sees so realistically. I see this applying to more than military “adventures” – see after the poem. THE END AND THE BEGINNING by Wislawa Szymborska

Here are excerpts from two comments on the last article (”I Am Angry“). I don’t know about you, but I have to have some relief from a sense of being almost

It’s been difficult for me to write these last few days partly because I am so deeply offended and outraged. Now they are pretending their drive to destroy the US Senate

So, what do you want to say?

I don’t think the greatest enemy of monotheism is atheism, agnosticism, polytheism, dualism, or pantheism: It is bad monotheism, monotheism carried out in bad faith. Yes! “Bad faith” is NOT

This is from a recent comment by that prolific, caring, and intelligent frequent reader of this site: “visitor.” If you know “visitor” please pass along our thanks. When are we

Courtesy of the DCCC, there’s a new website devoted to Tom DeLay’s House of Representatives. They’re calling it Tom DeLay’s House of Scandal ( http://houseofscandal.org ). You might want to

Here’s another from Rob: Finding the Truth in Strange Places I can’t believe the news today Oh, I can’t close my eyes And make it go away How long… How long must we sing this song? How

Here’s part of a recent email from moveon.org. It uses the word “heinous” about this bankruptcy bill – that means “grossly wicked or abominable.” Would our dear leaders

We’ve been through this before. Gingrich’s excesses, and his bullying and arrogance in particular, took him down. The impeachment hypocrisy (excesses, bullying and arrogance) took down more than

Connie found the Barry McGuire site the other nite to listen to some of that cool old Christian rock. There she found some interesting paragraphs from his biography. “When I

“TRUE LOVE” This is copied by permission from a “Devotional” on a Colorado-based young adult ministry site ignitedspirit.com (Rocky Mtn Conf, United Methodist Church). The author is Ben Kendrick of

This is from commentary by William Falk in “The Week”, April 8, 2005, p7: “…. A society that allows Terri Schiavo to die, we’ve all been told these past two weeks,

Today the good citizens of Kansas are voting on legislation designed to take people’s attention away from the moral quality of their own marriages and the health of their own

On this, the anniversary of the murder of Dr. King, let me commend to you the recent post by Rob Couto. It has excerpts from a speech King gave in

So, what do you want to say, short or long, about what?

Thanks to “Guest” for this: When I think of Pope John Paul II, I see his greatness and depth of faith in contrast to some of the things that are wrong

In I John 4 the author makes a simple, blunt, logical analysis of our emotional attachments – or professed attachments. “If you do not love your brother whom you