Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Environmental care: cleaning up our disobedience
Posted by: dana on: October 15, 2007
- In: faith | free will | Jesus | News | Politics | Religion | Sanctity of human life
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Today is Blog Action Day. OK, I’ll bite. As are most of the topics I’ve written about thus far, Global Warming is a divisive one among Christians. We get muddled in the fallacy of correlating “right wing” with “God-fearing and obedient” and “left-wing” with “atheist and immoral.” So when the lefties attach themselves to a cause, [...]
The people I will never meet because of 9/11
Posted by: dana on: September 11, 2007
I wrote this column in 2004 (hence the Kerry/Bush references), but I wanted to share it with all of you on this forum. Let me know your thoughts and please share your own stories. Sept. 11 about humanity, not political agendas I never met David Suarez, but I miss him. He had aspirations of going [...]
If Jesus died now…
Posted by: dana on: September 7, 2007
- In: Politics | Pop culture | Religion
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I simply loved this quote, so I had to share. Thanks Lenny “If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. “ Lenny Bruce And now, becasue this quote reminds me of the painting that inspired this blog, a shameless plug for my [...]
About the painting
Posted by: dana on: July 9, 2007
So I’ve been wrestling with a lot of big issues in my studies lately, and I’m just not ready to tackle them in blog form yet. So to avoid neglecting this blog any more than I already have, I’ll write an entry about the painting at the top of the site. I carried this vision [...]
More on sanctity
Posted by: dana on: June 14, 2007
I was thinking more about my point in yesterday’s entry and decided it wasn’t totally fair. I still believe in each individual point, but perhaps combining them was a bit of a stretch, one that sprung from a deep sadness about the priorities of this country. One woman dying in a waiting room really doesn’t [...]
A prime example
Posted by: dana on: May 31, 2007
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Dave Zanotti of the American Policy Roundtable is a prime culprit of perpetuating the “cycle” I spoke about in the previous entry. He is notorious for attacking those who would dare question the role of religion or the authority of God — instead of promoting constructive conversations about how his values could reap benefits for all people, [...]
