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You are blessed.
When I went to vote on Thursday, I drove around the one-way streets trying to figure out where to park. I found a spot on the street and crossed. The sun was out. Our unseasonably warm weather confuses my family. We keep wondering when it will finally cool off. Maybe this will be the week…
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When we’re so focused on ourselves, we forget to be people.
The other morning, as I took my kids to the bus stop, I saw a distillation of our present situation in these brief moments at the start of my day. A simple moment. One mistake. Then another. And a third. Our mornings are that strange mixture of rushing and waiting anyway. We were there with…
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Should Christians Vote?
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but I think there’s an election coming up! You wouldn’t know, what with how little the media is covering it… I’m kidding, of course. Election coverage is everywhere. And today is Primary Day in Indiana, so there is all sort of focus and attention going on right now. We…
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When Subtraction Mimics Progress
Whenever the U.S. holds a national election, there is much evaluation, haranguing, and prediction. We are reminded often that midterms always have a different character than presidential elections, but that knowledge is thrown out the window in the fever of gloating and sorrow. The most popular prediction this time, and the one I have often subscribed…
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No Apologies: the Danger of Bravado
Despite the fact that there was little substantive division between the two candidates allowed into last night’s debate, we might make the false assumption that the only difference was actually cosmetic. That and Governor Romney’s continued radical change in policy from week to week, embracing the very things he condemned in last week’s debate. But…