As much as I’ve tried to avoid it, political news, gossip, issues, dilemmas, debates, scandals; politics is everywhere. I voted in my states primaries last Tuesday and recognized that although we tend to recognize that local elections and government officials have a far greater impact on our day to day life than who is president, we don’t really educate ourselves on what local candidates to vote for (what’s an Associate Justice do anyways?). That’s only been one of my latest questions that has arisen. I’ve made an effort to listen …

So, for a number of random reasons, I need to take more of a break from regular blogging. I’ve taken sporadic breaks in the past. And more recently I cut down the daily posting to weekday posting. Well, now I’m going to try and cut things back even more. So in a sense, this is a bit of a goodbye.
I’m currently thinking of cutting back to one post a week. This wouldn’t be a YouTubesday post, I’m stopping those, at least not weekly (unless you protest), but I’ll post good …

Seriously, I don’t want to be partisan, but this stuff is too good not to share. I just thought I’d put it out there:

By the way, this is the end of weekly YouTubesday posts. If you’d like to continue to browse videos and other web snippets I think are worthy of your time, hope over here to my miniblog, On The Journey.

After a handful of emails regarding last weeks post and comment threads, and reading through them again, I guess I’ll have to conclude that I tried and failed, but it was worth a shot. I wanted to give one more try to clarify two things: what I was trying to get at in the posts last week and what my current position is.
My intention last week was to try and move beyond dialoging about the specific issue of abortion itself and discuss ways that we could support women in general. …

Anne Lamott is a fabulous writer. She has the ability to take the stories of her life, ordinary stories, and not only make them engaging, but inspiring. When I read Traveling Mercies I closed it with a new found appreciation for the day to day experiences of my own life. Reading Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott, was no different.
I didn’t tab this book very much, and I read through it so fast that I didn’t think to mark quotes to share, so I’d just recommend you …

In an effort to not sway the conversation in any particular direction. I’m going to simply display the verses that to my knowledge (and a couple brief google searches) are used in making the case for and against abortion. In the context of when life begins…
Scripture typically used to make a case Against Abortion…
Psalm 139:13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden …

I remember some evangelism training thing somewhere were the technique was suggested of challenging a person to accept Jesus on the grounds that if they were wrong it would mean eternity in Hell, so it probably wasn’t worth the risk. Don’t know how I feel about that tactic now, but for those (could include me) who don’t currently consider abortion as infanticide, I’m going to ask you to consider the “what if” today. We’ve dialoged already with the assumption that life begins at birth. Today we are going to dialog …

Okay, so the email forwards recently about Obama are driving me crazy. Not from a political perspective, but from a “I’m ashamed to call my self a Christian and align myself with these people” sort of perspective. Anways, I figured I’d add to the religious cynicism and give some folks a few videos to find amusing or get angry at. Your choice.
First, a trailer for Religulous, seems interesting…

Then some late night Christian Television clips…

And finally a great monologue on using the Old Testament in modern day life, from the West …