There Are Some Christians Who Totally Disengage

I Think A Lot Of People View The Death Penalty As A Debate Class Or Something. The Cost And What's At Stake Is Really, Really A Big Deal.

I Just Have A More Holistic Sense Of What It Means To Be For Life, Knowing That Life Does Not Just Begin At Conception And End At Birth, And That If I Am Going To Discourage Abortion, I Had Better Be Ready To Adopt Some Babies And Care For Some Mothers.

But As I Pursued That Dream Of Upward Mobility Preparing For College, Things Just Didn't Fit Together. As I Read Scriptures About How The Last Will Be First, I Started Wondering Why I Was Working So Hard To Be First.

When We Put Too Much Hope In A Candidate Or A Party We Set Ourselves Up For Disappointment. When I See A Poster With [barak] Obama's Image With The Word "hope" Under It, Something In Me Cringes - Our Hope Is Built On Nothing Less Than Jesus' Blood And Righteousness, The Old Hymn Goes, All Other Ground Is Sinking Sand.

There Is One Big Misunderstanding Of The Monastics Leaving Society.