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My Blog Has Moved
Dear Readers,
After a year with Beliefnet, I've decided to move to my own domain for my blogging. It's been a fine year -- some things worked, other things didn't. But in the end, I'll be a better blogger on my own. My thanks to the Bnet editorial staff; they've been very supportive.
Ple
posted 12:13:57pm Nov. 13, 2009 |
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The Most Important Cartoon of the Year
By Steve Breen, San Diego Tribune, October 18, 2009
posted 8:51:22am Oct. 25, 2009 |
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Social Media for Pastors
Following up on Christianity21, we at JoPa Productions are developing a series of boot camps for pastors who want to learn about and utilize social media tools like blogging, Twitter, and Facebook. These are one-day, hands-on learning experiences, currently offered in the Twin Cities and soon
posted 10:45:52am Oct. 22, 2009 |
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Ending Christian Euphemisms: "Fundamentalist"
I've taken some heat in the comment section for using yesterday's post on "unbiblical" and a "higher view of scripture" as a thin foil for my own disregard of biblical standards. To the contrary, I was pointing to the use of the word unbiblical as a stand-in for a particularly thin hermeneutic. Ther
posted 10:15:41am Oct. 21, 2009 |
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Why You Should Get GENERATE
Last week at Christianity21, GENERATE Magazine debuted. With the tag line, "an artifact of the emergence conversation," it fit perfectly at the gathering. When I actually got around to reading it last weekend, I was truly surprised at how good it is.There have been several efforts to begin a paper j
posted 3:14:37pm Oct. 20, 2009 |
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Let me agree with Rod, Ezra, and Matt that Tom Vilsack is a very disappointing pick by Obama for Secretary of Agriculture. As someone who lives in corn-producing state, I’ve seen my otherwise level-headed governor pander time and time again to Big Corn and push ethanol, even though economists and scientists agree that corn-based ethanol is bad, bad, bad.
posted December 17, 2008 at 2:33 pm
GMObama.
posted December 17, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Tony – generally I am in total agreement with you, but to start slandering a very good man just because he is from Iowa is a bit much. Do you think that none of us in Iowa care about feeding the hungry or internation agricultural issues? Is that sort of thinking only going on in Minnesota? Get real. Vilsack did a great job as Iowa Governor. When elected he promised to only stay for two terms and he lived up to his promise. He never appeared to be in big agri-business’ back pocket and in many cases went against the grain (pun intended) on such issues.
He is a smart, articulate and humble man who did not grow up in Iowa but lived from many years in small town Iowa. Christians shouldn’t go around making assumptions and accusations (especailly about other Christians) but instead looking at the facts. As Luther said in his catechism on bearing false witness, attempt to expain your neighbor’s actions (Obama’s in this case) in the best possible light.
posted December 17, 2008 at 2:44 pm
A 2006 Washington Post article wrote of the Governor:
There may be no better sign of the changing debate over the nation’s farm subsidies: A Midwestern governor running for president calls for cuts in a system that has steered hundreds of millions of dollars a year to his state…
Politicians such as Vilsack have joined a host of interest groups from across the political spectrum that are pressing for changes in government assistance to agriculture. They want the money moved from large farmers to conservation, nutrition, rural development and energy research. Vilsack, for example, favors programs that improve environmental practices on farms…
posted December 17, 2008 at 3:17 pm
It would have been nice to have an ag secretary with some street cred in sustainability, consumer orientation and local/regional/direct farmer-to-consumer marketing.
posted December 17, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Given the title of this post, shouldn’t it be included in your SSM blogalogue section?
(I know that was completely evil…the devil made me do it!)
posted December 17, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Salon.com had a brief response from Michael Pollan on the choice. http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/12/17/pollan_vilsack/index.html
posted December 17, 2008 at 5:35 pm
If Vilsack makes Michael Pollan nervous, he makes me nervous.
posted December 17, 2008 at 11:57 pm
cornhole is the coolest game ever. perfect with a cigar in your hand and giant sideburns.
posted December 19, 2008 at 11:04 am
Ga’ll, one would think, that a President who is very concerned about renewable energy and global climate change would be concerned about that activity which, left to its currents trends, uses energy wastefully in the production and use of artificial petsticides, seeds, and fertilizers; all of which deplete the soil, both by nutrient loss and erosion, and wash into our water sources and rise into our air. For goodness sake, there are major problems happening in the Gulf of Mexico because of BigAG in the midwest. We have got to support the small organic farm.
I still love you BO
posted March 23, 2010 at 6:46 pm
I agree corn is a bad idea for fuel.