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From her interview on Sirius: “For me we all need to be Jesus in our time. …Jesus’ message was to love your neighbor as yourself, and there are people in need. I hope that people got that message” Then, lest anyone doubt her own ambitions, she added that she wants “to be like Gandhi and…

From a reader: why is the main stream media even writing about this? 35,000 children die every day from preventable things: like starvation and diarrhea…but the media, you and I…all we focus on is this Crap. It is demeaning to Ms. Spears…an embarrassment to most Americans, it is demeaning to our Creator, is a reckless…

Per my “prodigal post”, I found a picture that Kim took backstage that night in DC. I had forgotten about the pic taken seconds before she headed onstage and was again reminded of her discomfort best shown here by her fidgeting hands as an “official” photographer took the “official” photo…

…from a reader: Do you wonder why Americans are so fascinated with celebrity? Poor Anna Nicole, Britney, Lindsay Lohan, and so many others. We create little mythologies out of such nonsense – little gods and goddesses – living these bigger than life lives – and our common fascination says something very sad about us. They…

I have two snapshots of Britney Spears stuck in my brain. The first is from the late 1990s. I was living in Atlanta and had started attending a cool new church. It was a church “unplugged” – the pastor was young and sat on a stool and talked about Jesus and U2 and Quentin Tarantino.…

The Washington Post has a troubling article today called “Goodbye to Girlhood” highlighting the nauseating trend of younger and younger girls being taught to be “sexy” with their bodies, their clothes, and their attitudes. Some of the more jarring quotes from the article: Ten-year-old girls can slide their low-cut jeans over “eye-candy” panties. French maid…

In February 2000, in the heat of the primary campaign with George W. Bush, Sen. John McCain launched an angry attack on what he saw as religious intolerance aimed at him and other like him. He famously called Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson “agents of intolerance.” His speech can be found here. It was an…

Down in Orlando, FL this weekend, the National Association of Religious Broadcasters (NRB) is gathering to talk about faith, technology and way to increase their audience. But behind the scenes, the real action is political. John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Sam Brownback will be meeting with key religious right leaders. It is such a big…

yesterday’s discouragement diminishes in God’s presence. We returned this morning to our simple little church full of really wonderful people who love God and who love us. For lots of reasons – some good, some not – we haven’t been in church much lately. This morning though Kim and I return like the bewildered pilgrims…

I wonder sometimes if faith is still faith when you feel like you don’t have much faith left. Sometimes the enormity of having a slow-growing tumor in my brain overtakes me. It seems simultaneously impossible and terrifying. Those moments seem to come at very random times and pack varying wallops. Sometimes they pass through my…
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