Joe Carter of the Evangelical Outpost has honored me by placing this blog on his list of 100 Christian blogs he thinks are usually worth a read, though not necessarily because you'll agree with what you read here. But you already knew that, didn't you? This is not a list of the "best Christian ... Continue reading
Sinéad’s Theology
July 12, 2007 By 8 Comments
Theology is an attempt to create a place of peace in a time of war... I observe a lot of violence done in the name of theologies of various religions, but when you study the actual texts of those religions you find that they don't ... justify war or violence or anything really which is unloving of ... Continue reading
Barack Obama talks about faith
July 3, 2007 By 10 Comments
On June 23, 2007, speaking before a convention of the United Church of Christ in Hartford, Connecticut, presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama talked about his Christian faith and the political conclusions he draws from it.It's hard to know what any politician might do once in office unless ... Continue reading
Re-thinking Rachel Carson
June 22, 2007 By
A fundamental part of the Christian world view is that we live in a fallen world. This applies to the environment. Just as man is morally corrupt as a result of the fall, the environment is also corrupted. Just as man has the responsibility, before God to address moral corruption, he has the ... Continue reading
I see your true colors
May 10, 2007 By 3 Comments
There is a group of people who frustrate me to no end. No, not stinky cab drivers. I'm talking about those well-meaning folk who proudly proclaim (in their best we-shall-overcome-one-day voices), I don't see color. ... What they are attesting to is their "inability" ever to notice anyone's racial ... Continue reading
Electronic graffiti
April 12, 2007 By
Don Imus has been fired for using a racial slur to insult the Rutgers womens' basketball team on his radio program.JV and Elvis, WFNY radio personalities, think Imus has gotten a bad deal. "You're going 100 miles an hour on radio. You want to have fun, you're just making observations — how ... Continue reading
Connecting Pesach and Easter
April 6, 2007 By 3 Comments
On this Easter weekend two millennia ago, Judaism and Christianity broke apart on the rough sawn beam of a Roman cross — and their conflicting interpretations of the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth.Strangely, I, a Gentile, am a follower of a Jewish rabbi. On Easter's cross God flung open the ... Continue reading
Martin Luther King Day
January 14, 2007 By 1 Comment
In April of 1963, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama while participating in a peaceful march in protest of that city's segregationist laws. While confined in the Birmingham city jail, he learned of criticism against his protests by a group of Alabama ... Continue reading
