Terri Schiavo and our web of laws
Tuesday, 22 March 2005
It’s interesting to think about the Terri Schiavo case as it relates to a law of ordinances vs. a law of love. It seems that it is impossible to create a set of legal regulations that would deal justly with every contingency in life. The husband has legal standing, as well he should: Genesis 2:24
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Bickering, bloodsport of siblings
Thursday, 17 March 2005
I just saw a copy of the LA Times laying around and noticed a headline on the Home section: Bickering, bloodsport of siblings by Robin Greene Hagey. As a parent it caught my eye. As a Christian, the parallels were obvious. The caption under the headline reads: “You should worry if your kids aren’t squabbling,
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Diversity and homogeneity
Thursday, 17 March 2005
Joe over at EO posted an interesting article today entitled Micromotives and Macrobehavior: How Diversity Leads to Homogeneity. He is writing about how even the extreme diversity of thought represented in the blogosphere tends to coalesce along standard political or religious lines. (I like Joe’s quote from Montaigne: “There were never in the world two
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Tolerating error
Tuesday, 15 March 2005
In recognizing the brotherhood of all who have put on Christ, one sincere concern of some good friends has been that I may be tolerating error–that I may come to accept the errors of denominationalism or the deeply divided “religious world.” Rest assured, I’m not. I still remain just a Christian, not a hyphenated or
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What makes sin sin?
Tuesday, 15 March 2005
Ponder for a moment what makes sin sin. Is murder wrong because it is listed in the Decalogue? Is it wrong because it is listed in the new testament scriptures as sin? Or is it wrong because it violates our “social contract,” or the law of the land? No, forgive the circularity, but murder is
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Is God binary?
Friday, 11 March 2005
Too often, I’ve made the mistake of thinking that God is binary–that He can only be “for” something or “agin it.” Fortunately, he’s more merciful than that. Often times, there is a third option that may be in play that we haven’t considered–“I don’t care, as long as you act in love.” I see this
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Words mean things
Friday, 11 March 2005
There is an interesting article in BusinessWeek Online about whether bloggers are journalists: So is a blogger a journalist? Certainly, some organizations have begun to legitimize Web logs as a valid grassroots form of journalism. In 2004, bloggers for the first time received press passes to cover the conventions during the Presidential elections. They have
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More on speculative theology
Wednesday, 09 March 2005
I appreciate the sentiments expressed by Rey over at Bible Archive on God and the subjugated role of our opinions about Him. After writing a great parody piece on the need to worship God on the mountains, he followed up with a post about the Syrian assumption that the God of Israel was the God
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The relentless optimist
Monday, 07 March 2005
I read through Hebrews recently and was amazed by the relentless optimism of the “heroes of faith” in chapter 11. Granted, the word “relentless” doesn’t usually have a positive connotation. But what word better explains the persistent faith of people like Noah, Abraham, Moses, and the others listed in that chapter? And what is faith
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Christian coalitions of the willing