pursuing holiness, following politics
G-d vs Free will – Cage match! v.1
Lately, I’ve managed to get into several discussions or debates about the matter of God vs the free-will of man. Some present that the only possibility is either God or man’s free-will must suffer deadly defeat as if they’re opponents in a professio…
an interesting read, nevertheless.
“If you have to be told that running electrical current through your nipples isn’t a good idea, the brain damage was probably a pre-existing condition.”
Interesting review of Eat, Pray, Love:
“But warning bells about her spiritual sincerity start to go off when she admits she is willing to look everywhere (apparently in the whole wide world) for God, except in anything resembling orthodox Christianity.”
From WSJ, a probe to see whether Congress is misusing travel stipends:
“Some lawmakers said it has been a longstanding custom of lawmakers in both parties to keep any extra money. If lawmakers weren’t allowed to keep leftover travel funds, “you could never get many members traveling,” said Mr. Ortiz, the Texas Democrat, in an interview earlier this year.”
And the problem with that would be… ?
I had to laugh when I read Henry’s post, Five Sites I Read Because I Disagree. That’s the same reason I read Henry’s site – we’re generally on the same page, faith-wise, but Henry offers thoughtful, cogent defenses of politics a good deal more liberal than my own. (Though he’s much closer to the center than I am.) Mind you, I still disagree. But as iron sharpens iron, so an opposing blogger sharpens another. 
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