A few years ago I was searching for an alternative to the Religious Right style of Christian politics and came across Jim Wallis as he was doing a media tour promoting his new book God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. It seemed like every website I went […]
Health Care and a Theology of Death
Perhaps it is healthier to be prepared for death and die younger than it is to be afraid of death and constantly try to delay the inevitable. I’ve been trying to keep up with the health care debate since it is a pretty big issue, and there’s been one tactic that has me a bit […]
Dallas Independent School District is a Joke
I don’t live in the boundaries of DISD, but it is by far the largest school district in our metroplex area, so it gets all of the media coverage. And for good reason. They are clueless. I have lived in the area for less than three years, and in that amount of time, these stories […]
Celebrating Easter with a Cage Match
From the “Why I think Relevance is a Myth” file, a church seeking to be relevant this Easter. Per the church website: For years the church has taught us to be “the nice guy” when we have really been called to be Ultimate Fighters. But what do we fight for? Join us on Easter and […]
Our Government at Work, Again: AIG
I’ve been really busy the past couple of days. The next post in the building a church website series will get posted tomorrow or Friday. Now, on to AIG. I’m quite disturbed by what I’m hearing. On of the reasons I didn’t like either of the bailouts (the one last fall by Paulson and the […]
Our Government at Work
I’m a little perplexed about the $787,000,000,000 bill that was passed in both houses of Congresss today. The full text was not posted until around 11:00 PM last night. It was over 1,000 pages long. Debate in the house started this morning at 11:43 AM. By 11:00 PM tonight, it had passed votes in both […]
Why Politics is More Exciting than Christianity
Watching people’s passionate involvement in the intense politics of the past month or so has been an interesting phenomenon. We literally had millions of people working in one way or another to get their candidates elected, and last night we watched as euphoria erupted over an election of historic proportions. It left me wondering: Why […]
How Christians Can Avoid a Tax Increase Under Obama
To the 74% of white evangelicals (and other Christians) who voted for John McCain and are worried that Obama will raise your taxes: If his tax plan goes as he plans, only families making $250,000 or more will have an increase in taxes. If that doesn’t sit well with you, you have an alternative. Give […]
These are Historic Times
Last night I watched Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos in amazement as I saw republicans, democrats, former Treasury Secretaries, stock traders, and political commentators all agree that government ownership of financial institutions was the only option to get us out of the current financial crisis. This would usually go against conservative principle, but they […]
Is the Financial Crisis the Church’s Fault?
Tony Jones makes the comment that without a wide swath of our culture subscribing to Calvinism and the “protestant work ethic” free market economies are a thing of the past. Are free markets incompatible with secularism? Is the only hope for the free markets a Third Great Awakening? Or maybe the first Global Great Awakening? […]