I know it's almost Valentine's Day, and everyone is thinking about love, commitment, relationships. Or else protesting the holiday and celebrating Single's Awareness Day. Regardless, romance is on people's minds ( Read more... )

I tried to start this post here at least a half dozen times, all with little to no success. And the "little to" part is being overly generous. I had planned to write about the Christian Right, but couldn't get into my flow. I was going to do a review/explication of Casting Crown's new song "Jesus Friend of Sinners ( Read more... )

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Was America founded as a Christian nation?

At first glance, this seems like a straightforward question. Yes, or no. But even a minute's contemplation leads to a fairly major problem: when it says founded, is it referring to the colonists who first set foot here, or the statesmen who set forth our Constitution a hundred years later? Also, how does ( Read more... )

I find myself almost wishing that the Rapture did happen Saturday.

Dramatic, I know, but there is just so much sorrow and disgust in my heart over the actions of the human race. Specifically, the Republicans in the US Congress.

First we have Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who is saying the House won't vote to provide aid to tornado victims without ( Read more... )

Where, oh where, have the moderates gone ( Read more... )

This entry, modified as you read below, was included in my 2013 Sophie Kerr Prize Portfolio, which earned finalist honors.As long-time readers will know, I hate Lent. Someone told me that Lent was a time when God draws back, separates Himself from us, if you will, for us to prepare for Christ’s resurrection. And so I always felt that distance, ( Read more... )

The CF scholarship I entered a while back prints these booklets that have all the finalists' essays and creative projects in them, and sends a truckload out to everyone featured in it. Last night, Mom and I were paging through them and she commented, "It's interesting how many of these feature Bible quotations or references to faith in general ( Read more... )

My last entry is me struggling to come to terms with how God feels about homosexuals, and accordingly how I should feel about the same-sex marriage bill that just passed the Maryland senate. I have no qualms from a secular perspective (separation of church and state, freedom of religion, non-discrimination inherent in the Constitution, for example ( Read more... )

This isn't what I should be doing right now. I should be doing any one of a number of homework assignments, or cleaning my room, or even having a snack. But, no. I am writing a blog post.

This is in relation to Maryland's proposed same-sex marriage bill and, more directly, this post from a few days ago. In that post, I basically went in the Bible ( Read more... )