Letter to my Congressman on the bailout

I’m not usually a big believer in the governmental process as an agent of change, truth, justice, or whatever, and the current issue with the proposed Wall Street and bank bailout plans is no exception. I have very little expectation that my letter will actually in any way influence the decision of the representative for [...]

Law, justice, theological metaphysics and politics, and my future

This began as an email to someone who has been a kind of mentor to me, as well as someone on whom I’ve tested various ideas in the past, but the further I got into it the more I felt I needed to post it here. What follows are some disjointed thoughts that probably only [...]

US Army unit to be deployed for domestic operations

From Democracy Now!:
Beginning in October, the Army plans to station an active unit inside the United States for the first time to serve as an on-call federal response in times of emergency. The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent thirty-five of the last sixty months in Iraq, but now the unit is [...]

What is the Gospel?

In one of my online communities today, someone asked about “what is the Gospel? How do you go about sharing it if it comes up in conversation?” The community is generally more liberal-leaning, so there aren’t exactly a lot of “street corner evangelist” types in it, but several people have come up with some interesting [...]

Journalists arrested at RNC include Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman

We all expected the cops to use excessive force and utilize the tactic of questionable mass arrests in St. Paul. That’s no surprise, that has been a tactic for squelching public dissent since time immemorial. What is perhaps even more alarming about the tactics used in St. Paul is the arrest of several journalists who [...]

FYI: 2012 Convention Information

I take all the blame for this one.

A brief musing on Paul

We now can say from studies in all related fields, including epigraphy and archaeology, that the cult of Caesar the divine ruler was not merely one among other religious choices available to denizens of the ancient Roman empire. Instead, we should see it as largely the glue that held the empire together on multiple levels [...]