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"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky" - Siddhartha Gautama

Theologian helps Obama find his religious voice

Theologian helps Obama find his religious voice Obama attempts to court the "Religious Left". Uhuh. Should be interesting.

Presbyterian leaders OK gay clergy

Presbyterian leaders OK gay clergy This is a monumental step for healing in the worldwide church. But this wasn't exactly a majority (54% to 46%); divisions still exist. In other denominations, the California-Pacific Annual Conference (part of United Methodist Church) recently passed a resolution changing their views on the ordination of ...

I don’t care if it is law, it just seems so wrong

I don’t care if it is law, it just seems so wrong Scot McKnight draws a references the legalistic priest and levite who refused to help the poor traveller in his rant against the Supreme Court decision. "The Supreme Court decision is a classic example of being legal and right but ...

McCain’s Sacred Violence

McCain's Sacred Violence Tim Nazfiger on McCain's worship of violence.

Dobson, please exit stage right

Dobson, please exit stage right Urban Mennonite believes that Dobson's whole smear Obama campaign is just further evidence of the end of an era; the "dying gasp of a man who knows his time". Good stuff.

Video: Dobson, Obama, and Jim Wallis on the Evangelical Agenda

Video: Dobson, Obama, and Jim Wallis on the Evangelical Agenda Jim Wallis's take on the unabashed Obama-bashing from the Dobson camp.

My Photography Workflow

My Photography Workflow Thomas Hawk (my photographer idol) on his workflow.

November 20th 2008
Tags: life 3 Comments

Where I Am Right Now (rant numbero uno)

After existing in a Bart Simpson-like zen for my early teen years, it's actually somewhat surprising for me to find myself where I am now. I guess I always figured I'd take life like it comes, somewhat like hanging on to a train while cruising the world. Never thought I'd ...
November 4th 2008
Tags: washington politics 4 Comments

Yes We Can!

It's election eve and everyone's calling a blowout for Obama. There's this big lump swelling up in my throat; to call this historical is an understatement. Americans pulled together and did what they thought was best for their nation. And they finally elected a Presidential ticket that did not include ...

Why A Vote For McCain Is NOT A Vote For Life

Life is something God-breathed, something sacred. It's a mystery that no one can explain; but it is a divine gift from the earth and our ancestors. Perhaps that's why we cherish it so much. It really is all we have, when all the shells and facades and influences and experiences ...
October 21st 2008
Tags: life, poetry 6 Comments

Bono on Stories Told Through Color

I feel badly in need of inspiration. The color is going out of my life. Autumn is retreating as the cold North Wind marches on. U2 18 Vertigo/05 Live from Milan Bono: "So, we’re making a DVD here...tonight. Thank you for being a part of the film...the little movie we’re making of tonight. Grazie ...

Autumn is here to stay, I say

I don't have much to say lately. The economy is unimportant to me (in case you've tucked your head under a rock somewhere, Bush and the corporations got caught together in bed which means the financial system is in a crisis. The old white guy that's running for Prez is ...

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