Author: pastordan

The WaPo has a “is he running in 2008?” piece on John Edwards that’s just chock-full of good quotes. My favorite: In his speeches, he uses the vocabulary of morality and social responsibility to talk about the...

Repost from last night. Eat this, Scoop! I haven’t made a big deal of it here, but it’s no secret that I am bipolar. Story like this one get my attention: Criminal justice can be viewed as a numbers game. Consider...

Love is patient and kind, O God*, help us to be patient with people, even when they are foolish and annoying; and help us to be as kind to others as we would wish them to be to us. Love is not jealous or boastful. O God*, help...

Update [2005-6-12 14:49:0 by pastordan]: Sorry not to respond to comments as they came in; my wife and I were away this afternoon. Some folks in the thread have pointed out that reconciliation requires atonement and that justice...

…Importing a Saturday-night tradition from that other place: What’s my f-ing problem, you ask? I got a bag full of them tonight: Pinheads who want to jump Dr. Dean for calling the Republicans a “white,...