Back At It

I know we've not been the best at keeping this updated the past couple months. In fact, we knew it was bad when we received critique in person for our lack of activity on our site. We apologize.

The fact is, we've got plenty going through our minds, but finding the time to sit down and express it in written words can be daunting (at least for one who pours over every word and reads and rereads to make sure the clearest statement is being expressed - I'm describing myself here.)

Anyway, the latest personally is that I'm currently in an Early Church History course at Fuller. I'm loving it (as always). And work is not fun, but it allows me to use certain strengths and it funds my schooling... so all in all, it serves an important purpose. :)

Finally, I'll express one thought of recent... related to these primaries and the myriad of candidates running from each party. I'm fascinated by the whole thing. "Faith" is being capitalized upon as campaign tool across the board when in the past decade it was primarily toted with the Republican Party. But come on?! How can the tenets of the Republican party more strongly cater to the ideals of Christianity? Sure a couple political issues match up, maybe (though, even those depend on one's interpretation of those Christian ideals). But I see the same potential of the Democratic Party, and every peripheral party out there. And though I hear things like "I think Huckabee's the best candidate because he's a pastor," I'm confused because every single candidate out there is uttering faith commitments of the same manner. So how does being a Republican Christian outrank being a Democratic Christian merely by such label alone?

I'm not partisan to any political franchise, but I don't see one's faith commitment directly relating to their capacity to run a country. Sure I'd love to have a candidate that shares my view of the world, but I'd rather vote for a candidate that I believe has the most potential to make a significant positive difference in our nation's history and world relations. Right now I'm struggling to figure out who that could be.

If you claim Christianity as your belief system, do you believe the most important characteristic of the candidate you vote for be that he or she is a Christian? Why or why not?

Multiverse what?

For those of you into Cosmology and Physics, chew on this. It was on Today's New Reason To Believe from the Reasons To Believe website. And even if you are not, it's still something interesting...if you like The Matrix.

Multiverse Musings - Are We Simulations? By Dr. Jeff Zweerink Posted Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Rose Parade

Kay's parents were in town this past week. We went to the Rose parade, and had great seats. We then came home to watch USC crush Illinois. Ouch! What Pierre and I found to be very interesting was that as soon as the police brought up the end of the parade, some Christians thought it would be a good idea to hold large signs in the street saying:

"Ask me why you are going to hell"
"God hates sin"
"Warning All: fornicators, adulterers, sodomites, witches, abortionist, murderers, drunkards, liars, atheists, hypocrites(you get the point) hell awaits you."
"God throws sin and the sinner into hell."



The Illinois fans in front of us laughed when they saw the "God hates sin" and then one gentleman looked at us and translated the sign into saying "Jesus hates you." I cringed.

The other depressing thing that we saw following the parade was the trash that was all over the streets. I was baffled that people would think that the beautiful Pasadena streets were their trash can. Ugh.




But, all was not lost, because it was an enjoyable time to be able to see something up close, first-hand, with the parents and Pierre that I have watched on TV my whole life. Some of my favorites, were the bands from Japan, who rocked, and the cute little Zurich Police band who wore their dull grey uniforms and played very Swiss-German music followed by the Oktoberfest float.