[This post was originally published on June 24, 2010. The content has been edited, updated, and expanded.] I write this coming off a hard week of Facebook exchanges with a conservative Christian. Good guy, from what I can tell, with a good heart. Just very conservative. So I now have this picture of myself asContinue reading “What I Believe (a.k.a. My Scary, Ultra-Liberal Ideas)”
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I Believe…
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] I believe in love. Not the squishy, touchy-feely kind, but the kind that takes guts and practice and a lot of failure before we start to get it right. I believe in freedom and pluralism, grateful that I live in a country where I am free to believe in God butContinue reading “I Believe…”
Barack W. Bush?
Is it just me, or is Barack Obama sounding more like George W. Bush every day? This is either because: a. Obama is giving in to political pressure and changing his ideals b. Obama is seeing reality much more clearly, and reasonable human beings, given full information, will naturally come to similar conclusions about howContinue reading “Barack W. Bush?”
Fox’s Paranoia
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”] Here is another example of the paranoia that is coming so often from the political right these days. This is a great illustration of how we can assign meaning to things that seems to resonate on a visceral level, and yet we can miss the mark completely. [disclaimer: I realize politicalContinue reading “Fox’s Paranoia”
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