Holiness Reeducation

There was an excellent article today that furthered illustrated the difficulties I was highlighting in the Dobson post and opens more questions. The article says that way many evangelicals are going to influence this election is by staying home. This important voting base, especially for the Republican party (as demonstrated in 200 and 2004), could […]

I posted a recent sermon today on my podcast. It is on Sarah, Abraham and God’s gift of laughter. I am heading on vacation for a week, so if you don’t hear from me, don’t worry, the rapture hasn’t happened yet.

In one of the most open attacks yet, by a Christian leader, against Barak Obama, James Dobson decried Obama’s Biblical and Constitutional interpretations. This is nothing new for Dobson or Obama, because it is very clear that James Dobson doesn’t like Obama as a candidate. Obama’s liberal views on abortion and gay rights eliminate him […]

It is funny how different life feels when everyone is back where they should be. After three plus weeks of not a single normal morning, of our entire family waking up in the same place together, it is nice to have a return to normalcy. At least this week before we head on vacation. I […]

Here is a Wordle I created from the “This is me the last time I checked” section of my blog

This is it. This is the post you have been waiting for. This post will change your life. There are an especially holy and righteous group of Christians who have finally created a service that we have all been longing for. Every since as teenagers we were crammed into the the church basement to watch […]

I am excited to have my children back home after being gone for a while, but my wife is missing in action again. So I guess I get to celebrate Father’s Day all week. Here are some Father’s Day ramblings… I received Mario Kart Wii for Father’s Day and it is sweet. I appreciate the […]

As I have thought over the issues surrounding the restraining order placed by the Catholic Church on the family of Adam Race, the autistic son of a devout Catholic woman (see Greg’s last blog), I am drawn back to an article I read a few years ago by Stanley Hauerwas entitled Gestures of a Truthful […]

Excited for this Monday! Today four of us fellas are flying to the motherland – Maryland that is – and going downtown DC to check the Washington Nationals swanky new ballpark. Should be the best guys night ever and none too soon. I need to get away, if even for a day. So here are […]

There is an unbelievable story today about a boy whom a local Catholic Church has taken a restraining order out against. 13 year old Adam Race of Minnesota is no longer welcome at mass. He is so unwelcomed that if his parents bring him to mass they will be arrested. His mom already has been […]