The holidays are, of course, a huge time of the year for charitable giving. The sight of bell ringers for the Salvation Army is commonplace. However, a recent entry from wintersweet linking an article with reasons to boycott the Salvation Army inspired me to address this subject here. What I mainly wanted to do was clarify my own position on church-state ( Read more... )

1. I wanted to clarify one point from yesterday's post. When I was speaking with jajy1979 about natural disasters, the three he mentioned are NOT considered the ones that are statistically most likely. A hurricane hitting New Orleans was in fact inevitable; it was a matter of when and not if. The possibilities for an eruption of Mt Rainier or a ( Read more... )