Holiness Reeducation

I wanted to give you something to read today with all of your internet time freed up since you aren’t scanning Wikipedia for articles about Def Leppard or waste your day looking at funny cats and creative fails over at I can has Cheezburger. Those and other popular sites have gone on strike today to [...]

On this my 35th Birthday I am finally eligible to run for President of the United States. So let me officially start my write in campaign. Here is my platform for changing America. 1) Sandwiches. Sandwiches can change America. A sandwich can be hearty, healthy, delicious, practical and economically responsible. We need to help people [...]

It is beginning to spread, but to what end? That is the question that I am pondering today as the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread to other cities such as Chicago, Washington DC and a host of other locations. Similar protests have popped up around the globe, most recently in the Philippines. This is [...]

Why are Christians in this country so comfortable with the death penalty? That is the question perplexing me today as I read about the candidates positioning themselves for a run at the presidency. Not only are there no candidates I have encountered who are anti-death penalty, but the most prominent Christian candidates seem to be [...]

A new Census Bureau study shows that as many as 46 million Americans now live in poverty. That is about 15% of our country or a little over 1 in 6 people. If this doesn’t shock you then the numbers must just be too abstract. Let’s make that number mean something more. 46 million people [...]

in a Lots going on in the world, some of it important, some of it bizarre, and some of it involving football, so let’s get it started…. Keep your friends close and your worship pastor closer In the kind of story that you just can’t make up, a pastor at, (wait as I set the [...]

Texas Governor Rick Perry held a prayer meeting this past weekend. That might not have been newsworthy if he hadn’t held it in a football stadium, invited leading evangelical leaders to take part in it and had about 20,000 Christians with him. The question I am struggling with after this event is what am I [...]

There is much to talk about after a news worthy weekend, but all of it pails in comparison to the evil displayed in Norway on Friday by Anders Behring Breivik, a self proclaimed Christian. Anders shattered the psyche of Norway through his terrorist actions that included blowing up a car bomb in Oslo and gunning [...]

The biggest news of the weekend came from New York state where the legislature there passed a law allowing for same sex marriages in the state. With the population of New York being what it is, this pretty much doubled the population in our country that now has been afforded this right. The passing of [...]

This just in, GOP candidates for president are courting us. At least those of us who fall under some part of the banner of evangelicalism. This isn’t new, of course, but it does bring up some interesting questions going into 2012. The courting of Evangelicals reached its pinnacle under the presidency of George Bush. It [...]