Current Affairs
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Occupy Wall Street’s collective statement
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2 min read
For those following #OccupyWallStreet, click on their first collective statement. One of the criticisms of the movement has been their lack of central authority and a clear, concise statement of demands. What is unique to this movement, and more typical of organizations today, rather than 50 years ago, is the belief that the first step toward…
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Puritans: why Wall Street wasn’t occupied sooner
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3 min read
or #OccupyWallStreet and our fear of protests A favorite line over the last two weeks has been: I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner. Of course it did, but the media doesn’t really like protests. It is surprising since the news is all about sensationalism and big displays of strangeness and upsetting the status quo. It’s…
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I had no idea I, too was going to hell!
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1 min read
David R. Henson wrote today about a missed opportunity to attack evil: evil in the form of stay-at-home dads. We are clearly where sin resides. Read about it here!
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Because everyone needs to hear this
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1 min read
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.”
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Inevitable Disappointment
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1 min read
Mad Priest says it the way I wanted to yesterday. Click over and read it here.
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Over the last week or so, some really good Christians have written about the death penalty from a Christian perspective. It has been in the public consciousness for the last few weeks. I gave my own response recently. But in the responses, a curious thing happened. There was what has to be this moment of…