There are a lot of things I’d like to comment on today: Eric Miller’s Single Issue Voter Apologetic Keith Martel: Can I wear clogs with my kilt? The Discussion of How Now Shall GWB Live? Unfortunately, my brain is having trouble shifting out of low gear. We went to the New this weekend, and the […]

Posted on November 8th, 2004 by admin
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How George Bush won the election As a member (at least in appearance to people who don’t know me, or read this site) of the “evangelical Christian” group, I want to respond to this: Looking out across America, what’s one of the largest groups of people with a single strongly-held set of beliefs? The evangelical […]

Posted on November 5th, 2004 by admin
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Our Thursday night chit-chat group got together last night to discuss two articles from First Things: Freedom and Decency Church as Culture I wrote about Freedom and Decency last week (scroll down), and after our discussion, I stand by most of my comments. One thing that we dove into, and were very critical of, was […]

Posted on November 5th, 2004 by admin
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Matt had a link to the Boing Boing post about Kerry’s concession of the election, and I thought it was interesting for a couple of reasons: 1. Boing Boing had been quite silent today about the election, after numerous posts yesterday. 2. I think the bit they quoted from Dan Gilmour was right on the […]

Posted on November 3rd, 2004 by admin
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Eleven states had same-sex union amendments on their ballots, and in every one of those states, the voters rejected allowing them. The most surprising? Oregon, typically a hotbed of civil liberties and left-leaning political opinions.

Posted on November 3rd, 2004 by admin
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Predictably, we don’t have an “official” winner in the presidential race, but one candidate has a nice lead in the popular vote and just needs to win Ohio to seal his re-election. Of course, it won’t be that simple, as officials in Ohio are saying it could take up to 11 days to count the […]

Posted on November 3rd, 2004 by admin
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After days of heady (at least in my mind) posts, let’s turn to some other topics on this election night…. First, a couple more words about the alleycat. The weather was really perfect for late October. Warm-ish, with a nice breeze, clear skies and a full moon. And riding the Jail Trail with the wind […]

Posted on November 2nd, 2004 by admin
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A friend, who is involved with our little “church and culture” discussion group, mentioned he had just read an interesting article for another group he’s involved with — THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF OUR ECOLOGICAL CRISIS by Lynn White, Jr. This piece, written in 1967, places much of the blame for the ever-growing abuse of the […]

Posted on November 1st, 2004 by admin
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Yesterday, my father-in-law preached on Psalm 2 as it relates to our upcoming election. The basic idea? If you’re a Christian, don’t get so worked up about it. Don’t forget who’s behind the wheel of this thing. If the candidate you didn’t support wins, it probably won’t be enough to trigger the End Times. And […]

Posted on November 1st, 2004 by admin
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