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Jan
16

Zombie Apocalypse Housewives

Gotcha. We were watching the series of the zombie show, “Walking Dead” recently, and in one of the episodes the ideal woman character is having a confrontation with the feminist warrior woman about the importance of each other’s tasks. Our family watched the previous seasons on Netflix, and this scene occurs in season 2 Which matter most, the household tasks and the making of a home, or...
Aug
22

Gay Marriage Clarified

It has taken a long time into the gay marriage debate to reveal the actual way gay marriage accepted as a legal right could change the general landscape on marriage as a whole. For most of the years in which it was actively debated, the premise put forth and accepted by most was simple, “It won’t change marriage, either in concept or law”. The fundamental matter of what change might take...
Jan
24

Atheists and Arguments, Debates Trying Not to Beat the Old Dead Horse

Atheists and Arguments, Debates Trying Not to Beat the Old Dead Horse (too hard!) LOL! It has been several years since I participated in the atheist/Christian debates. After lots of time on forums, a bit on blogs, and of course, the occasional personal forays… I have largely let such debates rage on without me. I still will say that you give enough rope to the Atheist and he will hang himself with his arguments, while the Christian will stand there and gut himself....
Dec
10

Shhh! Don’t Talk About It

Adrian Warnock shared some of the points from Ed Stetzer’s post about research findings on the effects of pornography. Would it make a difference to you if you knew more about these points? Pornography is addictive, and neuroscientists are beginning to map the biological substrate of this addiction. Married men who are involved in pornography feel less satisfied with their conjugal relations and...
Nov
24

The Future: Debate will increase over who has rights to medical care

He is not a “vegetable”, after all. After the healthcare debate in the legislature is completed, the discussion will return to the ethical questions that have been so problematical for modern medicine and society. It is the type of story that Rom Houben represents that will become our focus. And it will pivot, not just on our ethos, but on the economics of trying to provide care to all of...
Sep
13

Health Care

While the Health care debate has been coalescing into something along the lines of a question of our patriotism, our compassion as humans, our survival as a nation even…. it bears some thought as to whether our ideals of morality ought always to be our guiding light as to our consensus on what is legal. For a long time we have devolved into a morality and legality ruled by majority. We intervene in...
Jun
10

Correct Choice of Words

So little time, so much to say. That might be the motto of many of us, especially of bloggers, or maybe it is just noticeable in bloggers -especially by other bloggers? Crafting our word choices is often a lost art, and perhaps why we so easily miscommunicate. Then there is the truncated ability to decode actual word meanings (which could inspire a digression into the state of today’s education...
Jun
9

A Woman’s Place

This was originally published on Intellectuelle Part 1, in the Church I don’t know of a more hot-button topic for both the churched and unchurched than this one. For that reason, we should probably try to take a fresh new look at threading out the various views on just what a woman’s place in society consists of. It seems as if there are more presumptions on what the Christian scriptures say...
Jun
5

The New Front: The Cultural War Gets Deadly Earnest

Operation Rescue, the extreme antiabortion group that organized a six-week blockade of Tiller’s office in 1991, issued a statement condemning the murder. “We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning,” Troy Newman, the organization’s president, said. These unqualified reproaches are nothing new. The organized antiabortion movement has always opposed...
Jun
4

Tillers Death: The Aftermath

The debate and discussion over this is rising to a buzz of deafening proportions. It gets hard to think when that happens. Dr. Tiller, an abortionist, killed recently, is thought to have been shot because of his high profile as an abortion practitioner and advocate. One of the reactions:“They’re killing doctors.” by Aeron Haynie who uses the news event to create her own theory of why women...
Jun
4

Et-Elle Topic

Wrote a post @ et-elle.com: How Sex Influences God’s Message. No feedback yet. We think our views on sex and gender are in a separate category from our religious life, and how we express the gospel and ourselves often is full of mixed messages. I wonder how much of our own understanding of God and of how we should live our lives is influenced by our need to rationalize our thinking on the conflicting...
May
8

The Need For Common Virtue, Where Conservatives and Liberals Agree

I am going to post a video here, and you are going to want to view all of it. More than that, you are going to want to think about it, in that cogitative sort of way that goes deep into your intellectual digestive processes and extracts the moral motivation that engines your heart. Few things I hear to today, in any venue, speak to me in such a way that I would vouch for them to you like this. Then I want...
Apr
16

States Rights, Tea Parties…What Do You Think?

Mostly we center on the economy anymore (in the news, personal conversations, blogs, etc)…. I know that gets the lion’s share of my own interest in reading news, etc. But what about the rumblings on States rights, what about the tea parties protesting our taxes and national debt? Are they hot air, just letting off pressure, or genuine attempts by informed citizens… or something else?...
Apr
14

Lenten Review

This year I observed Lent. It isn’t something I do every year, but I wanted to emphasize something to myself, and in my life, that the observance of Lent is particularly conducive to: the diminishing of self-life in respect to the cross. The cross ought, in and of itself, stir up this remembrance within us, but maybe for reasons proffered in the Post Modern Easter post, but we left out many of the...
Mar
23

Taking Care of the Vineyard

My mother’s sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I have neglected. Much of my life has been involved with being a “hired hand”. Working in other’s vineyards to help them accomplish what they planned, their goals, their dreams, and building in their life. Somehow I believed that at some point that would transfer into a willingness to help...

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