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As if people didn’t need another reason not to go to church…

Vatican lists new sinful behaviors
What are they going to announce next? That they’re bringing back the selling of indulgences?
I don’t believe Christianity is about having a list of what’s right and wrong and making sure our behavior is more in line with the “right” side than the “wrong” side.

Posted 10 March 2008 † peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

Reading in 2008

Yeah, I don’t read books too often but the wife and I have made it a new year’s resolution to try to read more. She’s already started on it by reading two books during our holiday break. I’ve also started trying to read this book again: Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural […]

Posted 30 December 2007 † peter § ‡ Comments (2) °

Religion and the politics of poverty

I’m increasingly disturbed by the increasing number of pastors who believe they feel like they need to add their voice to the political conversations of the day. Why? Because pastors are trained to be teachers and ministers of the Gospel, not to be public policy experts. Yes, the Bible has a lot to say about […]

Posted 30 December 2007 † peter § Politics ‡ Comments (1) °

Easy spirituality

I saw a link to an article on Yahoo News titled Islam’s hajj a difficult spiritual quest and I clicked on it because I thought it might be interesting.
However, I was extremely disappointed after reading it. I thought it would be an insightful first-hand perspective of a hajj from a genuinely seeking or practicing […]

Posted 21 December 2007 † peter § ‡ Comments (1) °

Growing inequality is not necessarily bad

I keep hearing all the time about how “bad” it is that the rich keep getting richer while the poor get poorer. I don’t think a lot of people really think about why they believe this is bad.
Here’s an overview of a NPR story that summarizes both sides of the argument:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7283485
As you can probably […]

Posted 09 October 2007 † peter § Business/Economics ‡ Comments (0) °