When a friend told me about what follows, I didn’t want to believe it. An article entitled “Do the Prayers of Evangelicals Impact World Events?” ends up claiming that good Christian folk helped American bombs and bullets find their target: Saddam Hussein’s two sons. This 2003 article sits in plain [...]

Skelter for Shelter and Run for Change! Team CCO is Looking for Runners by Members of the Cornerstone Community Outreach shelter program As of 2005, CCO (Cornerstone Community Outreach) has officially launched our charity athletics Team CCO. The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon has accepted CCO as an official LaSalle Bank [...]

If you’re visiting Palestine before or on Palm Sunday, maybe you could see about renting a donkey. Why? Keep reading… -=- They Don’t Shoot Donkeys Do They?Prepping the Palm Sunday March against Occupationby Greg Moseswww.dissidentvoice.orgMarch 18, 2005 In the few days before Palm Sunday, Hasam Jubran has a lot to [...]

Deaths in the Middle East — especially in Palestine — seem somehow beneath our level of sight. Despite the fact that a significant number of Christian Palestinians are suffering, and despite the fact that Palestine holds Bethlehem, the cradle of our faith, we seem unable to see those there as [...]

In the “Just to keep us all awake department” Yep. During a year when we’re seeing all sorts of people get promotions where demotions and maybe tribunals would be more appropriate, here’s yet another example of how to get ahead in today’s army. At least this one got a slap [...]

Just in case you’re keeping score of American atrocities against citizens in the Middle East… I really do wonder how and why, as a Christian, I’m expected to support a regime involved in such activities. One doesn’t need to be a pacifist (I’m not) to object heartily to our present [...]

A close relative who is not a Christian but is very politically blue, is baffled by my interest in post-modernism. He sees our current political climate as one where a sort of extreme post-modern fascist nexus controls our vertical and horizontal. This is, he says, exemplified by (as just one [...]

This poem was written in honor of my wife, who inspired it. Not long after the Iraq bombings began, as we watched the 6 o’clock news one night, a report unusually graphic showed a dead Iraqi child and its screaming mother… the camera panned over the scene slowly. And I [...]

Christians who are fans of the republican make-over of America’s social fabric may want to remind themselves of Paul’s admonition: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves [...]

Here’s a nice thing; US guards at Guantanamo Bay’s prison colony have apparently been abusing Muslim prisoners there by, among other things, shaving crosses into inmates’ hair and (in one incident) justifying a beating by exclaiming, “I’m a Christian.” I would hope evanglicals who take Jesus seriously would protest these [...]