Jan 12 2009
Since the times of George Washington it has been the tradition of incoming presidents to hold a prayer service. This year it will be on January 21, the day following President Obama’s inauguration, and be led by Rev. Sharon Watkins, General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). As an ordained Disciples of [...]
Oct 16 2008
It’s October 16, four months after same sex mariages resumed in California, and, yep, the state still exists, the world has not come to an end, the sun still shines, and all is well.
Sep 09 2008
Juan Cole has a very interesting comparison of Islamic fundamentalists and Sarah Palin in today’s salon.com. The difference between Muslim fundamentalists and Sarah Palin? Lipstick and not much more. Check it out …
Aug 16 2008
It’s now been two months since same sex marriages resumed in California. We’re still here …
Jul 15 2008
Word has just come down that Susan Atkins, one of the women convicted in the Tate-LaBianca murders along with Charles Manson, has been denied compassionate release by the California Board of Parole. Atkins is dying of cancer, cannot sit up in bed, has had a leg amputated, is paralyzed on one side and cannot even [...]
Jun 24 2008
James Dobson of Focus on the Family is today attacking Barack Obama for a 2006 speech in which Obama addresses the various interpretations of Christianity in the United States. “Even if we did have only Christians in our midst,” Obama stated, “If we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would [...]
Jun 17 2008
It’s now been more than twenty-four hours since California started granting same sex marriages, and, guess what? The state hasn’t fallen into the ocean. The Big One earthquake didn’t crumble every building. Lightning bolts didn’t strike anyone dead. Even in Kern County (where, by the way, I am headed tomorrow to visit family), life went [...]
Jun 04 2008
It seems that at least one area within Indonesia is now requiring couples to plant trees as a condition of receiving a marriage license. Couples in Gorontalo, a rugged mountainous province on Sulawesi island, are being required to plant 10 seedlings supplied by the local government, according to the religious affairs office. The program, which critics [...]
May 23 2008
Just when he thought he had solved his “God Problem” with his repudiation of John Hagee, John McCain has had to repudiate another one: Pastor Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, Ohio. As ABC News put it, “Despite his call for the U.S. to win the ‘hearts and minds of the Islamic [...]
May 14 2008
There are media reports that televangelist John Hagee has apologized for his comments on the Catholic Church. After meeting with a number of prominent religious activists — almost all of them Catholic — Hagee wrote a letter to Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights, stating in part: “In my zeal to oppose [...]
