If your first instinct is to use a tragedy to further your political preferences there’s a good…
If your first instinct is to use a tragedy to further your political preferences there’s a good chance you’re part of the problem....
State of the State
Over the last two weeks we have witnessed both the federal State of the Union, Michigan’s State of the State, and ESPN’s State of Sports. It has been interesting two weeks. Many conversations about politics and ideas about how to fix the country and the state. What has been most interesting is that people on both sides of the political aisle seem to believe that their position on every issue is what will make the world better. When we consider how to respond to the issues and problems before us we must look at them from a different perspective. We can no longer expect a political party to represent “us”. Political parties simply represent those who pay to get them into office. There is little to no accountability. We must realize that the political corporation is the imperial power that we live in the face of right now. There is one simple concern that career politicians desire: power.Power is something that...
A Response to the Election in the Words of a Teaching Elder
Below is a letter that was sent to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church by Pastor Rufus Smith of City of Refuge Church in Houston, TX. It is moving. It is poignant. It is something that we need hear and consider. November 6, 2008To: My Fellow Followers of “That Way”From: Rufus Smith, Pastor, City of Refuge Church (Houston, TX)As Chairman of the EPC’s Urban Ministry Network and the only black senior pastor in the Central South, may I ask you to consider pausing this Sunday or next to openly recognize the historic American election this past Tuesday? The question is not whether you or I voted for President-Elect Obama or not, but the issue is the potential capacity of his election to expedite the erasing of the stain, stigma and stereotype in the collective soul and psyche of an indigenous ethnic group and a nation.Whether you agree with the election results or not, on Tuesday, something happened in the minds and hearts of...
In honor of two weeks of political rhetoric…
Thanks Derek…A Savior on Capitol Hill | [derekwebb.net]I’m so tired of these mortal menwith their hands on their wallets and their hearts full of sinscared of their enemies, scared of their friendsand always running for re-electionso come to DC if it be thy willbecause we’ve never had a savior on Capitol Hillyou can always trust the devil or a politicianto be the devil or a politicianbut beyond that friends you’d best beware’cause at the Pentagon bar they’re an inseparable pairand as long as the lobbyists are paying their billswe’ll never have a savior on Capitol Hill[Bridge]all of our problems gonna disappearwhen we can whisper right in that President’s earhe could walk right across the reflection poolin his combat boots and ten thousand dollar suityou can render unto Caesar everything that’s hisyou can trust in his power to come to your defenseit’s the way of the world, the way of the gunit’s the trading of an evil for a lesser oneso...