Right for the wrong reasons
Charles Krauthammer has a defense of politics-as-usual. And he is actually right about a couple of things – democracy is supposed to be messy and our government is supposed to be ponderously slow. But...
View Article“Project” or “Projection”
About a month ago, I happened upon a site called “The Good Men Project”. Immediately both my interests and my hackles were raised. I was interested because I believe the common role of men in society...
View ArticleWhy people think Southerners are “ig’nant”
It is a bit of irony that a country founded on the belief that “all men are created equal” and maximizing individual freedom should still find itself so…unable to cope with issues involving race. And...
View ArticleAfter ten years…reaching for normalcy
I think it probably says something about where I stand on 9/11 as a generational and national moment that I completely forgot that Sunday was the tenth anniversary. I got up, got dressed, got my boys...
View ArticleCruelty is the new liberty
Zachary Roth has an article for The Lookout that gives us the other side of the story of poverty. As it turns out, poverty doesn’t actually mean one is poor because: …that measure, developed over 40...
View ArticleIf he’s in, he wins
New Jersey, and I suppose others, are abuzz about the potential of Governor Chris Christie entering the GOP Presidential primary race. I have no idea if he will run or not; but I’m confident that he...
View ArticleThe (un)Holy Laziness of Robert Jeffress
Robert Jeffress has finally gone on the national record to claim Mitt Romney is not actually a Christian. This is no surprise whatsoever to anyone who has ever sniffed sideways at a Southern Baptist...
View ArticleReligious feminism?
I came across Feminism and Religion, a blog run by and for divinity students wrestling with topics of ethics and feminism. It has been a real treasure for me to listen to women from a variety of faith...
View ArticleThe First Bank of Christ
The Occupy Wall Street movement has gotten me thinking about the business of banking. Currently, I use Chase Bank for my financial needs – which are fairly limited. I use a direct deposit of my...
View ArticleMilgram, Penn State, and feminine responsibility
The news out of Penn State is anything but good. But it does tell us a lot about ourselves culturally. Some of it is good. Most of it is not. The facts are pretty straight forward. Several years ago,...
View Article‘Tis the season
I found this article to be interesting: The study, by sociologists Elaine Howard Ecklund of Rice and Kristen Schultz Lee of the University at Buffalo, found that many atheists want their children...
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The irrelevance of faith in football
Dan Wetzel has it right>: Tim Tebow’s pastor, Wayne Hanson, says he knows why the Denver Broncos are 7-1 since installing Tebow as quarterback – it’s the player’s faith. “It’s not luck,” Hanson said...
View ArticleThis irrelevant faith
The Washington Post has a short article relating poll findings from the Barna Group (here is the Barna Group’s write-up on their findings). As with most such polls, it is the results in light of...
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Tyranny and having it both ways
I heard of this story via NPR, but I can’t find a link to the story, so I found this one instead. So here’s the meat of the article: She is 16, the daughter of a firefighter and a nurse, a...
View ArticleWe don’t really care what Jesus would do…
Apparently, Jesus is a good name – but not so much a role model. Christians in the U.S. who labeled themselves politically liberal or conservative told researchers Jesus wouldn’t necessarily agree with...
View ArticleChanges, dietary and otherwise
At this point, I can say that I’m in better physical shape than I’ve been in probably a decade. Unfortunately, that isn’t really good enough. But I’m far enough along in my personal rehab that I can...
View ArticleBread starter
There are a lot of different ways to do this. It’s very hard to do it “wrong.” Anything that ends up with a live and thriving yeast culture is the right way to do it. At its most basic, you need...
View ArticleBasic bread dough
This is the basic dough I use and adapt to whatever I decide to make. Because I use no added sugar, it takes extra time to develop. Take starter out of refrigerator and let it come to room temperature...
View ArticleThe paradox of the right
Today, the US Senate killed an amendment to a Highway Bill that would have allowed employers to cherry-pick what health procedures they would not want to cover for their employees, based on the...
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