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I read this commentary on CNN.com today by Roland Smith echoing the comments of Sen. Obama on Monday and was struck by his comparison to the current debate to a message delivered by Martin Luther King in 1967. Smith writes:
When Wright was castigated for being anti-American for saying “God damn America!” — which was [...]

I have been struck by the “controversy” over Rev. Wright and his comments while he was pastor of the church that Barack Obama attends. There are many layers of this that are striking, but the most notable for me is the idea that just because Obama attends this church that he must automatically agree [...]

I attended a conference here in Sioux Falls today from an organization called Pastors for Moral Choices. Its a local organization of clergy who are seeking to present an alternative voice in public debate and public action to the religious right that seems to believe they have the final word on moral positions. [...]

Its just too easy to make fun of Ted Stevens, the distringuished senator from Alaksa. A few months ago, The Daily Show put him in the Old Fashioned Coot Off against Robert Byrd when he wanted to attack drilling in ANWR with a defense bill.
Well, now he is pulling things out that just boggle [...]

How sad is this story? CNN.com - ‘Time’: Its time has come - Jun 21, 2006 Not only are words referring to the busyness of life - time, year, day, week - 4 of the top 17 words used in English, but “War” booms in at #49 and “Peace” doesn’t even make the [...]

Here’s a link to one of the most powerful examples of non-violence, forgiveness, and a voice for peace in what we are dealing with in the United States and the world right now. This morning Soledad O’Brien interviewed Michael Berg, the father of Nicholas Berg - a young man who was kidnapped and executed [...]

So, the last few nights as I have been feeding my newborn son in the middle of the night, I have been re-watching a movie that just floored me when I first saw it. As you can see from the image to the left, Gattaca is the film under comment. It is simply [...]

Once again, Pat Robertson is at it. First it was calling for the assassination of Hugo Chavez, then it was calling for the demise of the people of Dover, PA for getting a clue and shooting down the whole Intelligent Design thing, and now he is connecting Ariel Sharon’s stoke to the “division of [...]

I first must say that I am normally all for psychological / sociologial studies and inquiries into “contemporary” topics, but every so often someone just goes so far off the edge that its just plain silly. An essay in my current book did just that. In “God in the Details” one of the [...]

Just got finished watching the movie Crash. Gonna have to take some serious time to process the movie, but I am just stunned after watching the movie. Nearly impossible to summarize the plotline, but basically the movie deals with racism in its most insidious senses. While there are parts of overt racism [...]