Creative Justice: Avatars and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

This past week, I saw something very interesting in the news. A group of Palestinians were dressed up as Avatars to non-violently protest a wall the Israeli government is planning to put up in their territory. Ironically, it worked and Israel adapted their plans and changed the location of the wall. This creativity is something [...]

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Obama Has It Backwards: We Need to Reduce Military Spending

“A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending [...]

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My First Quaker Experience: Preserving the Essence of the Christian Faith

I went to a small town about 4 ½ hours away this past weekend called Monteverde. It was started by a group of American Quakers who fled from the United States in the 1950’s to escape persecution for their pacifist views. Raquel and I decided to go to their small meeting, and we experienced a [...]

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-It Was Really Hot Here Saturday in Costa Rica (We Must Be Approaching Global Meltdown)

For the sake of our world, let’s look at the facts instead finding some obscure and highly subjective reasoning to base the health of the environment. Unless we choose to take a more objective and scientific approach, we will watch with complete “happy denial” as the world we love is slowly demolished.

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Feigned and Politically-Expedient "Outrage"-Sarah Palin (And Every Single One of Us)

In August, Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff, made a very unfortunate statement by calling the liberal activists F***ing Retards. His statement was very inappropriate not only for the strong language but for the use of retard which has become a negative slur towards the mentally handicapped. Sarah Palin has a down-syndrome son, and so [...]

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Feigned and Politically-Expedient “Outrage”-Sarah Palin (And Every Single One of Us)

In August, Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff, made a very unfortunate statement by calling the liberal activists F***ing Retards. His statement was very inappropriate not only for the strong language but for the use of retard which has become a negative slur towards the mentally handicapped. Sarah Palin has a down-syndrome son, and so [...]

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Lessons on Prayer From an Agnostic Meth Addict

When you pray do you really feel like it is going to be answered? When you want something in life do you really think it is going to happen? Sometimes, it seems we fall onto either extreme of the whole issue of prayer and belief. We over-emphasize the sovereignty of God and so prayer essentially [...]

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-The Sad Case of Michael Steele

Lately, it seems that Michael Steele has been saying things that have upset and frustrated much of the Republican Party. His comments have actually been embarrassing for much of his base. However, given the manner in which he was chosen, it is not too surprising. Essentially, Steele was chosen as the head of the Republican [...]

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Why the Christian Community Should Support the Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell

There comes a time when we have to realize that many of our old ways of doing things are archaic and actually, unjust. This is the case of the current, don’t ask don’t tell policy. We live in a nation which is supposed to stand up for the rights of the individual and minorities. We [...]

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Why the Christian Community Should Support the Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell

There comes a time when we have to realize that many of our old ways of doing things are archaic and actually, unjust. This is the case of the current, don’t ask don’t tell policy. We live in a nation which is supposed to stand up for the rights of the individual and minorities. We [...]

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Why the Christian Community Should Support the Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

There comes a time when we have to realize that many of our old ways of doing things are archaic and actually, unjust. This is the case of the current, don’t ask don’t tell policy. We live in a nation which is supposed to stand up for the rights of the individual and minorities. We [...]

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Avatar as Social Commentary: Corporations, Profit, and War

If you haven’t seen the movie, go watch it. I think it is one of the best movies I have ever seen. However, while watching it, make sure to look beyond just the dazzling effects to the social commentary that is trying to be conveyed to our generation.

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What Christians Can Learn From Freud

This past week, I was teaching my students in my Psychology class the basics of Freudian thought-related to the Id, Ego, and Superego. For those not familiar with Freud, his belief that most of neurosis, mental anguish, and anxiety come down to a basic struggle between the three areas of our mind, the id which [...]

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