The Foxhole Manifesto

[via IdeaJoy]

Me loving my neighbor is not the Gospel, but my neighbor being loved by me is.

[via the gospel-driven church, HT: The Thinklings]

Isn't That Romantic?

They met online. Poured out their hearts to each other. They each thought they had found a soul mate with whom they could spend the rest of their lives.

The only problem: they were already married. To each other. {more...}

[via the view from her]

[HT: Ponderings On A Faith's Journey in this post]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a flinty populist in a zip-up jacket whose scathing rhetoric and defiance of Washington are often caricatured in the Western media, has transcended national and religious divides to become a folk hero across the Middle East.

The diminutive, at times inscrutable, president is a wellspring of stinging sound-bites and swagger for Muslims who complain that their leaders are too beholden to or frightened of the Bush administration. Ahmadinejad, who arrived in New York Sunday ahead of a U.N. General Assembly meeting, is an easily marketable commodity:a streetwise politician with nuclear ambitions and an open microphone. {continue...}

[via The LA Times]

Who was God more disgusted with this past Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads, or well known minister TD Jakes?{continue...}

[via the Liveprayer Daily Devotional, 09/26/07]

Toleration's Apparent Fall

"Multiculturalism" has become a suspect term almost everywhere in the world nowadays, and particularly in Europe. People say things like: "I used to be for openness and toleration of difference, but now I see where it's leading." But where is it leading?

Almost every reason for toleration's apparent fall into disrepute concerns Islam. Even simple requests, like that of schoolgirls to wear headscarves in class, are suddenly freighted with immense political significance and treated as issues that must be resolved at the highest level of government. People - and their elected leaders as well - often have the feeling that such seemingly innocent proposals are in fact part of an ominous "hidden agenda". {continue...}

[via commentisfree, HT: Prolegomena]

Your Future Has Detail

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The Lens That Sees Its Flaws

[via Overcoming Bias]

Can a Liberal Learn from Mark Driscoll?

[via Threads from Henry's Web]

The Cure Isn't The Disease

God did not intend us to mirror the psychological problems of others....Or is that too much to ask? in such a time as this?

[via Singleness Is A Gift]

Crucial Distinction

Representative–or aberration? It’s a crucial distinction. If our society is measured against a standard of absolute racial and ethnic harmony, we’ll always fail, as will every other society that ever existed. If anyone is waiting for a time when every residue of racial animosity has vanished from every American, that time will never come.

[via MUSE MACHINE]

Do some people falsely make everything about race? Undoubtedly. But such false “playing of the race card” only works at all because widespread racial disparities in so many areas actually exist.

[via Levellers]