Our "good" governor, Pat Quinn, went politicking this weekend at Chicago's Apostolic Church of God.He compared raising the income tax to being the Good Samaritan, which totally doesn't make any sense, but what I want to know is how he, as a politician, can go politicking in a church like that. For all the times that there are rumblings about ( Read more... )

Now and then, I get emails from people with questions or comments about my (incomplete) webpage about the White Rose. For the most part, I enjoy answering and commenting as I can, because I'm glad that there are people out there who have an interest ( Read more... )

One of the themes that is becoming more and more pronounced in the Harry Potter series is that of death. Voldemort is adamant that the worst thing that could happen to a person is that they should die, and he tries convincing Harry of this. After all, if this life is it, why waste your time trying to do good and trying to be noble, especially if ( Read more... )

(Although it's Saturday evening here)

1. Were you raised in a particular religious faith? Kind of hard to answer. Mine was a "Christian" home, I guess. We didn't go to church regularly, but my mom grew up Lutheran, and my dad grew up going to an Evangelical Free church. My sister and I were forced to go to the school that was loosely ( Read more... )