Do you have Bracket Fever?
Are you wasting time at work researching little known college teams looking for upsets? As a nation we are collectively in love with March Madness! It's great fun, but I…
We Are Process People
As President Obama and Congressional Republican leaders prepare to gather for a "Summit" on healthcare, I pause to consider the value of political processes. Let us not lie to ourselves!…
Alan Alda (Sen. Arnie Vinnick) for Masters Champion
My text for today comes from the final season of NBC's The West Wing. Specifically, I'm quoting from the character Arnie Vinnick, the progressive Republican Senator from California who is…
Some American Evangelicals Support Execution for Ugandan Homosexuals
For several months Ugandan law makers have been debating the merits of a bill designed 'to slow the spread of AIDS' in their country. Key provisions include the institution of the death…
Baby Jesus, but where are his horns?
"But why did those people hurt baby Jesus?" It's a tough question to answer, and I guess that's what I get when I let the Gospel tunes of Johnny Cash…
On your marks…get set…THANKS!
What exactly is "thanks" or "thankfulness"? Is it a feeling, an emotion, a set of actions, or an attitude? These are harder questions to answer than it might at first…
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“Favre” [farv] – noun, from the original French for Judas
Let's be honest, many of our nation's sportswriters probably wrote two versions of their game story last Sunday; one for if he won, another for if he lost? This story…
New Doubts, Bad Jokes and an Old Lesson
The old joke runs like this: "I have friend who used to be a Southern Baptist, but he converted to Unitarianism. So now he has his doubts, but he's very…
WWTD? Have you bought your bracelet yet?
WWTD - What Would Teddy Do? While this question is unlikely to spawn any adolescent evangelical fashion trends, it does have some cache these days. In the wake of the…
Evangelicals in the Echo-Chamber…Chamber…Chamber…Chamber…
My favorite philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce, was fond of reminding his fellows and readers that the world has a way of correcting (sometimes brutally) our false ideas. Misjudge a staircase…