politics
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I don’t want your binary world.
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1 min read
I DON’T WANT YOUR BINARY WORLD I don’t want your binary world. You can keep it. It’s no gift, really. A curse actually. Long distance arguments turn into brief skirmishes in a decades-spanning war. My every little expression dissected, deconstructed, injected, transformed into a wild assumption making me look like an ass and you and…
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Balanced
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4 min read
BALANCED There is no balance between rich and poor, slave and free. No necessary condition of have and have not. Victims don’t need to forgive their abusers before justice reins in the terror. Our lives are out of balance. If our ecosystem was balanced, it was before we burned fossil fuels. Before we salted our…
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A Country of Four-Year-Olds
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1 min read
A COUNTRY OF FOUR-YEAR-OLDS I sometimes feelthat the only wayto understand my countryis to be a parent. I live in a landfor which the response“because I can”is a valid argumentand “because I said so”works just as wellto dissuade; where freedom is moreimportant than community,until we get hurt. Today my son is crankybecause his MeeMee and…
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How political should your church be?
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4 min read
It’s a simple question. Well, at least many of us treat it like it is. Not at all, we say. Separation of Church and State. A lot, we say. We are called to change the world. How we answer the question often reveals not only what we think of church and politics, but where we…
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The 2016 Presidential Campaign In A Nutshell
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1 min read
It’s Like Dinner. The 2016 presidential election reminds me of dinner. Namely the conversation around dinner. Like coming home and saying “What should we do for dinner?” And your spouse says: “Not spaghetti. #neverspaghetti” And you say “OK. We won’t do spaghetti. I’m hoping to hear what you actually want.” And they say “I’m really…
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We Politicized Tragedy Long Before Now
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7 min read
If I had looked at the news Sunday morning, I would have rewritten my sermon. I’ve done that before, but I was being patient. I liked it already. I take the time in the morning, to review and reflect. I don’t look at email or listen to messages. I don’t read the news and I…