Could It Be Me?

Here's a fun quiz: http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=43870

You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan.

You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists.

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan
89%
Emergent/Postmodern
79%
Roman Catholic
71%
Neo orthodox
68%
Charismatic/Pentecostal
57%
Classical Liberal
46%
Fundamentalist
39%
Reformed Evangelical
29%
Modern Liberal
21%

What Might have Been

If you like Civil War stuff, be sure to read "Gettysburg", "Grant Comes East", and "Never Call Retreat" by, of all people, Newt Gingrich. Good stuff. It all begins with Lee winning the battle of Gettysburg, and concludes with the end of the Civil War in the fall of 1863 instead of 1865. These books really get you to thinking about what might have been.

Fate, Destiny, and Dancing With The Garth

Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared beneath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known you'd ever say goodbye

And now, I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end, the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance, I could have missed the pain,
But I'd of had to miss the dance

Holding you I held everything
For a moment wasn't I the king,
But if I'd only known how the king would fall,
Hey who's to say, you know I might have changed it all

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end, the way it all would go,
Our lives are better left to chance, I could have missed the pain,
But I'd of had to miss the dance

Yes my life is better left to chance
I could have missed the pain, but I'd of had to miss the dance

A Theology Of Nature

What if we made one simple change in the way we think about nature. What if we viewed nature as a subject, and not an object. I am not sure, but I think that one small change would completely reshape the way we approach the earth, science, other species, and one another.

Upchuck

Maybe I am missing something.

Deep Throat is finally revealed, and Chuck Colson comes out and says he was a bum for going to the press instead of to his superiors at the F.B.I. This seems to me to be total bullcrap on Colson's part. Now I want to say that I have a great deal of respect for Colson. He is a good man, he loves God, and he knows more than most people about what true repentance is. I am a true admirer of Chuck Colson.

But on what basis at all does Colson chastize Felt? Has Colson forgotten how corrupt everyone was back then? Has Colson forgotten how corrupt he was back then? Felt would have been destroyed had he gone to his boss, or to the White House. The whole Watergate mess was a sewer of corruption, and sometimes the best thing to do is avoid the sewer and go somewhere else. Felt sought to clean the sewer the best way he knew how, which was to give information to the press, which at least was less corrupt than everyone else in Washington.

Felt and Woodward and Bernstein are heroes. Heroes. And on this subject, Chuck, just shut up.