All Posts Tagged With: "god"
2012 Mayan Prediction – Respecting Logic
Marilyn vos Savant is some sort of genius who sells her logic to Parade Magazine. People write with questions, Marilyn answers. The question on January 31, 2010, concerned the Mayan prediction of the end of the world in the year 2012. The question: Can you add some logic to calm the hysteria? The flaw in [...]
3Feb2010 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
Creating Countries in Our Own Image
President Obama has upped the ante in Afghanistan. He is sending another 17,000 troops to the beleaguered nation to ‘take the fight to Al Quaeda.’ One of the criticisms of past military efforts in this erratic region of the world is in defining the mission. Well, what is the mission? It is two fold: We want to punish those who attacked our country on 911, and we want to make sure they do not attack us again.
27Mar2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
A United Methodist Perspective
I am a United Methodist. My wife and I joined a United Methodist church in Sugar Land, Texas before moving to Nashville, TN, and when we moved to Iowa, we transferred our membership to a church that was just down the street from our house. We went through the ceremony for becoming a member of [...]
16Feb2009 | bryan | 2 comments | Continued
Jesus: Radical Rabbi or Practical Mystic?
There is a lot of talk these days about being “spiritual” but not being “religious.” We often hear, “I see myself as a spiritual person, but not as a religious person.” This is the mantra of the children of the counter cultural movement of alternative spirituality. It is so much the mantra of a movement that it is no longer counter cultural, but represents the mainstream American thought process.
19Jan2009 | bryan | 1 comment | Continued
The Worst Church Marquees and Why They Are So Wrong
This has been a burr in my saddle for years. Longer than that, I guess. Before I made the switch to regular church attendance, the oh-so-clever church marquees were a beacon of tacky religion that always made me wonder why people would gather in a place like that. Now, they are just embarrassing and they [...]
7Dec2008 | bryan | 4 comments | Continued
Trust God, But Lock Your Car
The Federal Government of the past eight years reminded this writer of an old computer axiom – we can now make a million mistakes a minute.
In 1972 I worked in the world of finance with an IBM 370, Model 145 – one of those mainframe computers with a front panel of flashing white, yellow, and [...]
How Obama Did It: The Ground Game
The God Vote
Jacques Berlinerblau
Jacques Berlinerblau is associate Professor and Director of the Program for Jewish Civilization at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He’s also editor of faith2008.org. Many years ago he received a doctorate in ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature from New York University. Soon after, for reasons [...]
Thoughts On Original Sin
Some Jungian analysts suggest that original sin relates to family of origin.The idea is in order to be ’saved’ from the original sin one must escape the dysfunction of one’s family of origin.
Original ’sin,’ as defined by theologians, takes many different forms. We are born with the sin of Adam, for instance. Or we are [...]
Spiritual Hope
Barack Obama has reignited the word hope. He even wrote a book about hope. His book is pretty convincing on the concept of hope, but sometimes hope is used so freely it looses it’s luster. I am not endorsing Obama, as most of our readers may know, but believe he has a good grasp of [...]
21Oct2008 | Cole James | 3 comments | Continued
Divine Intervention and Painful Faith
We once did an internship as a hospital chaplain. We were assigned to an acute rehab unit. Most of the patients were recovering from a stroke or hip surgery or a like condition – they were medically stable but unable to return home.
A twelve year old boy was hit by a car and injured his [...]
Obama’s Journey – Don’t Stop Believing
Barack Obama is on a journey. The destination is unknown, but every mountain, every valley, every raging river will be crossed with determination, with hope, with optimism. The forest is full of danger, the valley in the shadow of death, Obama fears no evil.
Obama knows that the truth is with him. His cup is full [...]
Gustav – A Message From God?
When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States the reaction of the populace varied from the scientific to the religious. The scientists said the magnitude of the hurricane could be attributed to Global Warming. Some fundamentalist theologians argued Katrina was sent by God to punish New Orleans for sinful ways.
We use anecdote, [...]
Does God need Government Welfare?
I may not write well, but I know how to read. And I like to read the Washington Post section On Faith. The advent of evangelicals calling for a return to the moral values of the founding fathers is to be commended. I completely agree.
Steve Waldman is “co-founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Beliefnet.com, and author [...]
Rick Warren with Sally Quinn
Son,
Sally Quinn, with the Washington Post, does the world a great service by promoting sane spirituality. We should be grateful:
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1Mar2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
George Carlin – Video On Religion
Son,
We talk about religion. We talk about faith. We talk about politics. We talk about religion, faith, and politics mixed together. Sometimes we laugh and sometimes we are angry. Sometimes we are thoughtful, sometimes emotional.
My mood today is more in line with George Carlin. Check him out – there is some strong language.
How about that [...]
10Feb2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
Evangelicals, Republicans, two Tar Babies
Son,
In 1979 the Republican Party formed an un-holy alliance with the evangelical right wing. They hit that tar baby right square in the fat mouth of devil worship. Or is it the other way around – The Evangelicals signed a deal the the Republican Devil? Unlike Faust, neither will survive the deal with the devil.
In [...]
The Super Bowl, PGA, and Prosperity Gospel
Son,
If we use the measuring stick of Joel Osteen, that Prophet of Prosperity, we could reasonably surmise that the NFL is sanctioned by Jesus Christ himself. God sits at the 50 yard line. The Apostle Paul has season tickets. The Super Bowl is prospering, and Phoenix is the Promised Land.
There is not much more won [...]
I can't believe McDonald's is trying to sell "gourmet" coffee. Who the hell is going to go to a cheap ...
Why don't they do an All Star season with all the past winners. 
James Spader would be great!! I LOVE him. ANd Tim McGraw. MMMMMMMMMMMMM 
White is 'almost' the best because one cannot be the best until the sport is more than four Olympics old. 
Interesting post.
My experience with 12-step programs is that it's been more about finding the ways that you are already motivating ...
I'm moving from Central Texas back to my family homestead in southeastern Oklahoma.
The very least you could have ...
Think you have Patrick Henry confused with Nathan Hale.
Thank You Joe - you are correct. The post has been ...