Archive for November, 2008
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Thanksgiving: A Wake Up Call
There’s no better time than in the season of Thanksgiving to ask the unanswerable question, “What is life?” Upon this question, philosophers have philosophized and pontificators have pontificated.
In my adolescence the question was often posed as a funny conundrum. What is life? Back came the answer, “It’s a magazine.” That seemed like a funny and amusing […]
Comments Off - Posted in From Belief Systems To Relief Systems by Robert "Voluptuous" Thompson
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
While waiting to vote, I met a guru
Prior to the election there was only one location set up for early voting in my town, the Evanston Civic Center. I had heard tales of long lines of people waiting an interminably long time to vote. I knew I didn’t want to do that. So I pondered the possibility of early voting.
Since I would […]
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Waiting for the Light
The economic pressures that harass and consume most of us these days are hardly on the same order as those of the billion people (that’s a billion, three times the population of the United States) who have been going hungry every day this past year, with little attention. But our problems are real. And pervasive. […]
Comments Off - Posted in From Belief Systems To Relief Systems by James Huffman
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Sarah Palin, Spiritual Warfare, You and Me
Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times recently reported that Sarah Palin’s version of Pentecostalism is rooted in the notion of ‘spiritual warfare.’
Goodstein refers to George Otis Jr., president of the Sentinel Group which has produced video documentaries about spiritual warfare at work. “The term spiritual warfare sounds scary as all get-out if you’re not […]