Sojourners article in the issue Progreesive and ‘Pro-Life’ ?, No Place to Stand, points out several things that have long kept me from supporting Republicans becuase they’re “pro-life”: It is on precisely those other issues that the Republican Party—typically seen as more “pro-life”—loses its credibility among progressive pro-lifers. A common summary of the GOP’s philosophy by its opponents is that Continue Reading
So, we keep hearing Bush and Cheney say they KNOW that Iraq has WMD’s…and also, we don’t know where they are …..so……how smart is this occupation of Iraq? If Saddam hustled them away, to a location heretofore unknown, how is our occupation of Iraq going to stop them from using them? It only, accoprding to a scenario that I have Continue Reading
The Right Stuff Many people think the Religious Right has faded into obscurity and political powerlessness. In fact, it just might be stronger than ever. by David Batstone and Mark Wexler
I post things under my Sojourners Category when it involves “mixing” politics with theology or Christian living, which is pretty much what Sojourners is all about. When I saw that Wendell Berry was interviewed for their latest issue, I called the magazine and asked if my subscription that I sent in a while back could be started with the two Continue Reading
I found myself still upset, embarassed for the reputation it gives Christians, and disturbed by Bush’s lack of articulation about what he meant by “he changed my heart”. He couldn’t give a straight answer to someone asking him what that meant. He said it would be “hard to understand” by someone who didn’t KNOW what he was talking about. So Continue Reading
I got a trackback this morning pointing me to a good collection of blog postings in reaction to the PBS special.
The whole scenario stinks of the trappings of “Empire”. Find a “national faith” that isn’t too speciifc, talk about “Jesus of the heart” and you can, in the case of many, easily ignore and dispose of and denigrate the Jesus of the masses, the Jesus of justice, the Jesus who told us to love our enemies. You can wrap all Continue Reading
The previous two posts about the reports on PBS’s NPR that I posted previously tonigh led me to check the Sojourners site, and found this: Frontline, April 29 9 ET The Jesus Factor– the report/documentary that inspired the NPR interviews that I just listened to. (Richard Land, one of the embarassing Southern Baptist leaders who is in a position of Continue Reading
One NPR reporter on the story from the previous post: Religious people were comforted by the idea that Bush claimed to feel “called to be president”, and the “secular people” were concerned. Well, you have to consult OTHER Christians. Not the “Religous Right”, but the “Right Christians” as one website calls itself (a site for the “alternate vices” in Christendom Continue Reading
I find it difficult to listen to the way they are describing and “analyzing” the faith of George W. Bush, beginning with the quote from Bush himself (a recording of his anwering a question about what his faith means. It went somethng like this: “Christ changed my heart”, which is, of course, fine, as long as you don’t stop there. Continue Reading
The previous entry about the Dissent Zones that made its way into an episode of The Practice last night, is betterknown as “Free-Speech Zone”. The writers in the episode last night had Elanor say in her closing “I thought all of America was a free-speech zone”. When I did a Google, I found the term “Free Speech Zone” is the Continue Reading
Last night on the soon-to-be-defunct TV Series “The Practice” (comments on the demise of that show in my Video section, there was a little treatnment of the Bush administration’s use of “Dissent Zones” where they remove people who are at a Bush appearance site to a “special zone” reserved for “Dissenters”, and implied is that these zones are often so Continue Reading
The latest Sojourners has an interview with Bruce Cockburn, fresh back from a trip to Iraq. (Image to the left is from the article)
I often use my Sojourners Category here as a container for issues that I comment upon that are either from Sojourners, or in the category of Faith, Politics, and Social Policy that I discover elsewhere. Often, in posts last year and in 2002, I would put such things under Theoblogical, but this broadened the theoblogical category too widely. Sojourners magazine Continue Reading
This post on Mike James’ weblog says something I’ve often pondered when I see the collections of decals that often appear together, on things like SUVs. Oh but your flag decal won’t get you Into Heaven any more. We’re already overcrowded From your dirty little wars. Now Jesus he don’t like killin’ No matter what the reason is for, And Continue Reading