I should leave this one alone. I would have were it not for the morning anchors on our local CBS affiliate, News9. Reading the Wall Street Journal with the news playing in the background this morning I heard one of the anchors describe Al Musburger’s latent adolescence as … Continue reading
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Tragedies deposit the seeds of fear. Once our vision of an improving world is shattered we build walls to ensure future horrors do not touch us. We sterilize our emotions, cauterizing our feelings. We feign empathy and compassion for we know what they look like, even if we do … Continue reading
Read MorePointing fingers rarely gets underneath an issue. Fox News offers a page on their site dedicated to stories about the assault on Christmas. Recently a local news anchor here in flyover country picked this up for one if his two-cent rants.
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Read MoreJesus calls into question our need for oppositional postures. But, in order to maintain the strength of our perceived positions we need someone, some group, with which to be angry. Funny thing is that when we read the Gospels, Jesus’ words reserved for those who chose him as their … Continue reading
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Follow the Money, Endorsements Are Not Only Revealed in What We Give
Jim Wallis, of Sojourners, has long considered a budget to be a moral document. It reveals what we believe is important as a Country. We may apply this conviction to our own personal budgets and, yes, the budgets of Christian denominations.
Recently Bobby Ross Jr. wrote a … Continue reading
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