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Exit Polling With Soul: Explain Yourself
By
Brad Hirschfield
There may be only two candidates with a real shot at winning the Presidency, but there are as many religious/spiritual reasons for choosing them as their are believers. What is yours? Let me know who you voted for and share the teaching or verse which most brought you to that decision. It will be a…
Ohio Police in Riot Gear
By
Brad Hirschfield
Officers of the Toledo, Ohio Police Department took the streets in riot gear today, having been instructed to do so in a memo which you can read for yourselves. Make of it what you will, but I find it deplorable. I appreciate that they call it “preparedness”. I will even let you in on a…
God’s Candidate
By
Brad Hirschfield
I was asked by the folks over at the Newsweek-Washington Post On Faith project if there were religious reasons to vote for or against Barack Obama or John McCain. My response: there is always a religious reason to pick a candidate, at least if one is genuinely religious. If one is religious, then there is…
Dying Well
By
Brad Hirschfield
There are many understandings of dying well but few extol the value of loneliness. And the hospice chaplains described in this article know that, beyond all else. It’s powerful stuff which transcends any particular faith or ideology. In, fact, many of the people doing chaplaincy are not clergy at all. Perhaps that is why they…
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