Faith and Doubt
How the Two-Party System Is Supposed To Work
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy (email, mobile, and RSS readers, click to view the video on my blog.) “We have a two-party system in government, and the idea is supposed to be that the two sides both come up with ways to confront and fix the real problems…
Read More@%!* People Say On Facebook About Politics ~ Life:Unmasked
My Facebook newsfeed gets nearly unbearable during a presidential election cycle. Many of my friends and I don’t even read it anymore, or we block our more extreme friends so we don’t have to see all the vitriol. This week, we decided to find the humor in all of the name-calling, gloom and doom predictions, and…
Read MoreElection Day Is Not a Vote Between Hades and Paradise
I write for A Deeper Story today, the day before the US presidential election. For two months I’ve thought about where to go with this post. Do I talk about the election? Do I talk about the candidate I favor? Do I write an analysis of the big issues this season? I’ve started half a…
Read MoreYou Are Vandalizing My Freedom of Speech
I have a political sign in my front yard. It’s our private property. We have the legal and constitutional right to express support for any political party, candidate, and issue on that property. On each of the last two weekends, someone has vandalized that sign. It’s time for a brief civics lesson. Interpretation: Leave people’s…
Read MoreSovereignty, Hurricanes, and President Obama: Does God Care About the Election?
Most of the churches I’ve been part of over the last fifteen years have taught that God is absolutely sovereign, or in control, of everything that happens. Yes, even horrible things like hurricanes. You may recall John Piper saying that God directed the Joplin tornado and the Twin Cities bridge collapse and even the tsunami in…
Read MoreWhy “Christ Is All I Need” Is Gnosticism in Disguise
Every Monday, the president of our college spoke to the student body in the chapel service. Most Mondays, at the end of his talk, he’d raise his arm and start singing, and everyone would join him in four part harmony (I think we sang harmony to avoid being completely bored out of our minds with…
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