When I was a child, my parents often wondered where I came from. Hmm. But really, how does a poet rise from two scientists–my father had a PhD in Geophysics and my mom double majored in math and chemistry. My brother? History (his educational focus, not the state of existence). So even I can ask [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Christians’
December 6, 2008
Jesus was a communist
One day in creative writing class I was probably feeling a bit sour and ended up making some comment about the amount of time it will take our socialistic democracy to decay into communism. It may or may not. Some might even say that our democracy is not socialistic or that our socialism is by [...]
September 28, 2008
The Current State of Things
[Updated 10/1]
I don’t mean to play the genius card here, but our economy is in trouble. The banks have given out too much money, people have spent too much money, and now we have to have our government (who has its own budgeting/spending/saving issues) bail us out. We have two presidential candidates that think they [...]
June 25, 2008
Tolerance Part II
Awhile ago I wrote about the irony of tolerance. It didn’t stop on my blog, however, as I included the same argument in a paper for my philosophy and spirituality class. The professor had great feedback, but argued that progressive Christians, Muslims, Jews, and Buddhists are tolerant towards people of other religions. So what is [...]
April 21, 2008
Here…no evil…?
I was talking to somebody to a fellow teacher the other day when faith popped up in our conversation. I love these types of conversations because I get to see where people stand and I always love watching how people react to Christian theology. This person I was talking with was so excited to tell [...]
