Maturing attitudes about religion and politics…

This morning, I came accross this article about putting this election into a Christian perspective.  It’s worth the read. I’m beginning to become encouraged by signs of what I can only call a maturing of how Americans view religion and politics.  For the past eight years the only voices I heard were the culture-warriors who…

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OK, deep breath…

First, I don’t care what your political leanings are, the election of the first African-American president is a wonderful sign that America has moved into a new (and positive) era of race relations.  A man who was 3/5’s of a person when the Consitution was written is now the Chief Executive of the nation.  If…

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Great Idea!

If you’re as annoyed by robocalls as I am, check out this map of the annoying things and who’s using them. Twitter Robocall Tracker I’m pretty much at the point where I won’t vote for anyone robocall tells me to vote for!

Oh the parade…

I was psyched to be able to head down to Philly for the Parade on Friday.  Palmyra was nearly the perfect point from which to enter the city (the PA burbs had regional rail shut down on them – whoops!).  We did have to got a few stations north to find room on a train…

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Jesus – Wrong on Taxes

I’m preaching on Matthew 22:15-22 this week.  As I wrote the manuscript I found myself thinking, “You know, the tension of the text would be perfectly illustrated by some faux attack ads.”  Here’s the first one.  Perhaps I’ll add some ominus music later.

Glad I’m not the only one

This evening I tweeted that I’m reading A Case for Civility of Os Guiness.  It really is an excellent book.  By the time I got done with a Budget Meeting, and a short workout I found that I was suddenly being followed by the user vigil4civility.  I went and briefly checked out their web-site and…

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