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Archive for September 11th, 2005
Why we’re at war
Sunday, September 11th, 2005The confrontation that we are calling for with the apostate regimes does not know Socratic debates, Platonic ideals, nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing, and destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine-gun. Islamic governments have never and will never be established through peaceful solutions [...]
Thank God for dad’s collar
Sunday, September 11th, 2005Chris Monroe (a/k/a Paradoxology or Desert Pastor) has an interesting post about clerical collars that reminded me of my father. In the summer of 2000, a pastor friend suggested that dad buy a clerical collar for emergencies. This might not seem noteworthy, except that my father is an inner city pastor that one national magazine [...]
9/11
Sunday, September 11th, 2005Frankly, I’m confused. Four years ago, September 11th changed my life. I never made it to work that day and officially resigned my career as an attorney one week later. I never expected that September 10th would be my last day practicing law, nor could I have possibly imagined what the next fifteen months of [...]
"A Bridge Far Enough?"
Sunday, September 11th, 2005What does it mean to be a bridge builder in contemporary culture, the kind of person that pulls people together who ordinarily ignore or avoid or provoke each other? In the wake of the disasterous response to Katrina and the fault lines it reveals about our society, the question is especially timely. Brian McClaren has [...]
How rich are you?
Sunday, September 11th, 2005For a glimpse of what it really means to be poor from a global perspective, check out the globalrichlist. People earning $50,000 US a year are among the top 0.899% richest people in the world, with roughly 5.9 billion people poorer. $100,000 US means the top 0.6% richest people. Even $25,000 US puts a person [...]
Despite more jobs, US poverty rate rises
Sunday, September 11th, 2005“Despite a year in which the US economy added jobs, the percentage of Americans living in poverty grew from 12.5 to 12.7 percent last year – the fourth straight year it’s risen. … Some analysts say the numbers are particularly troubling not so much for the change they show, but the lack of it – [...]
Shot down
Sunday, September 11th, 2005Over at Rudy’s blog. Seems everyone else liked the Mary J/U2 combo. I watched the video again and still don’t get it. Mary J I like, and U2 I like, but together, not so much. Oh well.
So he’s not superman
Sunday, September 11th, 2005Judah and I went on our date with destiny last night, off to “find food” for “the homeless” in answer to his prayer. He was so excited about it all day. We ran into Uncle Roger on Third Avenue, and he told him all about it. We met up with his friend Christian at the [...]