An Open Letter to Glenn Beck from Jim Wallis
Dear Glenn, I think we got off on the wrong foot.
Dear Glenn, I think we got off on the wrong foot.
I can\'t explain what I felt as I watched Dr. Alveda King bounding down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial steps to deliver her speech, \"I Too, Have a Dream.\"
Watching the news in the last few months has been a real eye-opener for me.
I recognize that people of good will and good faith might differ with each other on this. Yet there is no need to \"de-Christianize\" each other over the matter.
When a public figure makes a public statement on a controversial topic, it invites — even encourages — a public conversation.
As David Axelrod pointed out on the day following the release of Judge Vaughn Walker\'s ruling on Prop. 8, President Obama still supports civil unions but opposes same-sex marriage. This makes him a homophobic bigot, according to the learned judge.
In the wake of the tragedy of 9/11, moderate Muslims worked to distance themselves from the radical Islamic attackers, standing on the long-repeated claim that Islam is a peaceful and loving religion. If this is true, now is the perfect opportunity to prove it.
In the recent AMNews, we physicians were given talking points on how to tell our patients about ObamaCare. It was so full of "happy-speak" that one must wonder if the AMA has paid lobbyists for the Administration.
Many people operate under the naive assumption that atheists base their views on reason while Christians base their views on faith. In reality, it is just the opposite.
Privacy in our culture has come to serve not a deepening of community life but an ever deeper sense of social isolation.