Archive for March, 2008
happy saint paddy day
March 17, 2008transition, pt 2
March 16, 2008“The Emancipation Proclamation was delivered in 1863, long before the reality of equality has occurred. In 1863 it was law, it was true, it was binding — and we’ve spent more than one hundred years trying to hammer it into reality. In the death and resurrection of Christ, the emancipation of all things from slavery to sin and brokenness has been established; we’re now in the period of civil war and civil rights, meting out those things into an earthly expression. We are in a battle, working to see His will on earth experienced as it is in heaven.”
transition
March 16, 2008The gradual, psychological reorientation process that happens inside us as we adapt to an external change. The transition process often results from a change, or occurs along with a change, but may also begin before the change actually takes place.
hope v. fear
March 5, 2008obama on religion and immigration
March 1, 2008From NBC/NJ’s Aswini Anburajan
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Obama took a detour from the standard rally or economic roundtable Friday afternoon, to hold a meeting with Latino religious leaders and making a spur of the moment stop at the U.S.-Mexico border.
At a small, invitation-only event at the University of Texas-Brownsville with about 150 evangelical and Catholic ministers, Obama spoke of his own conversion to Christianity as a young man working with churches on the South Side of Chicago in his 20s. As a child, Obama grew up in a secular household, as the New York Times noted in April 2007: “The grandparents who helped raise Mr. Obama were nonpracticing Baptists and Methodists. His mother was an anthropologist who collected religious texts the way others picked up tribal masks, teaching her children the inspirational power of the common narratives and heroes.” Obama did not grow up with his Kenyan father, whose family was Muslim.
Obama tied the message of his campaign to a religious message, telling the story of Jeremiah 29 from the bible. “God has a plan for his people,” Obama said. “That was the truth Jeremiah grasped — the creed that brought comfort to the exiles — that faith is not just a pathway to personal redemption, but a force that can bind us together and lift us up as a community.” (more…)
obama responds to new clinton ad
March 1, 2008
And Clinton in 2004 on Bush v. Kerry:
