Jan 18 2007
Last Sunday, my pastor Russ Peterman gave an excellent sermon that demonstrated how we as Americans have the power and financial means to eradicate hunger in the world and do a host of other good deeds, like provide a basic education or clean water to all. Yesterday, The New York Times ran a similar article [...]
Jan 12 2007
The school board in the south Seattle suburb of Federal Way (home, it should noted, of logging giant Weyerhaeuser) has restricted showings of An Inconvenient Truth, imposing requirements that it be balanced with an adequate opposing viewpoint and be shown only with the school principal and district superintendent’s approval.
The decision was apparently sparked by complaints from parents [...]
Jan 11 2007
It seems that Spocko, a blogger who, by his own admission, has a daily traffic count of about fifteen readers, has been waging a campaign against KSFO, a right-wing San Francisco radio station (attention rest of the world: yes, there actually are enough right-wing conversatives in SF to warrant an entire radio station) by sending audio [...]
Jan 03 2007
Pat Robertson is reporting that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in “mass killing” late in 2007.
“I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during his television show The 700 Club. “The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like [...]
Jan 02 2007
Time has an interesting article on the faith of Gerald Ford and how it may have influenced his decision to pardon Richard Nixon. The article also touches on how Ford refused to discuss, or, in his view, exploit, his faith during the 1976 campaign against Jimmy Carter.
While I think Jerry Ford was a right president at the [...]
