The perfect analogy for the Ron Paul Campaign

Ron Paul’s a nut, but his supporters are hard core, and they’ve given him an impressive momementum for a guy that is so “grass roots.” This video symbolizes that… Only one Ron Paul sign in the crowd, but you’ll note that it gets a heck of a lot of mileage!

What was Herbert Hoover’s middle name?

Radio show host Bill Cunningham embarrassed John McCain by insisting on calling Obama, “Barack Hussein Obama.” I must say that I have never been more embarrassed by conservatives and conservative evangelicals that the insistence that we tie Barack Obama to all the worst caricatures of Islam. Now don’t get me wront. I don’t Barack to be my president. He’s not ready. He’s not given any realistic vision for America. He’s a total crap shoot. Could be the next JFK or he could be the next Jimmy Carter. No, I don’t want him to be my president.

But to say that he is a Muslim as some suggest is wrong. He’s Christian. He’s a member of the Church of Christ. His father was an atheist and his mother did not practice any religion. His stepfather occasionally attended services in a mosque. The only times he’s stepped into a mosque is while being led by a parent.

Meanwhile, Bill Cunningham takes advantage of this false fear by insisting we use his middle name, “Hussein.” He says, of course, that he’s only doing this because presidents are always remembered with their middle name. John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Ronald Wilson Reagan. This conservative nutter wants us to believe his use of Obama’s middle name is nothing more than respect for him.

Really? Do we really think of Herbert Clark Hoover? Or Warren Gamaliel Harding? Or even James Earl Carter, Jr.? And does anybody know John McCain’s middle name? Cunningham claims that we’ll soon be talking about McCain as John Sidney McCain.

It’s time to listen to the political master himself… Mr. Karl Christian Rove. He says that to use Obama’s middle name simply reinforces that Republicans are bigoted and the tactic would hurt the party. Ya think? If this kind of thing keeps up, I have this sinking feeling that Republicans are going to switch places with Democrats and become the experts at loosing presidential elections.

Huckabee… gotta love him

Whether or not you want him to be president, there’s something about this guy that you just gotta love. It’s about time an evangelical Christian – Southern Baptist, no less – can connect with so many people the way he does…

Extending my adventures

For some time now, I’ve kept a religion blog that I’ve used as a launching pad for my many views on theology, church politics, and the what-not. But I’ve come to a new place in my life, and the old blog doesn’t fit. It’s too flat. My world is much less duo-tone and much more colorful. My interests have morphed from theology to culture and politics and real life. This new blog is my effort at putting some of these other thoughts to “paper”.

It’s not that theology is less important to me. It’s just that major changes having thrust me from the inner sanctum of the church office into the marketplace. And from this point of view, the theology that seemed so BIG in my old world is irrelevant to 90 of the rest of the world. People arent’ talking evangelical theology. They are talking the environment, politics, sports, reality TV, movies, and much more. It is in these arenas that we must engage and bring God back into the conversation.

I’ve possessed a biblical theology. I now seek to develop a more refined “practical theology.” Practical theology is exactly that – practical. It’s the application of our biblical theology to real life. It’s time for Christians to move out. To engage. To be nice and play well with others. We may not like that secular culture has become so… well… secular. But it is what it is. The main of life isn’t just lived out on Church Street anymore. The drama of live plays itself out on Market Street and Main Street and Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s these other places I wish to land for a while, enjoy some good joe, and – with my theological blocks in place – enter the larger conversation.

But don’t expect this to be a blog where I find some religious nugget in every secular event I observe. I’m hoping just to enjoy talking politics, sports, culture and what-not. And when spirituality informs these things in a primary way to these things, I’ll speak to it. But I won’t force it. I think it is time to get in the game… sometimes just for fun… no agenda. And when God reveals the capital A – agenda – then I pray I’ll awake to its presence.

David – 2/24/07

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