 Tales from France – Tete de Veau – bone out!On our recent trip to France, to celebrate our Granddaughter’s Cheering Your Kids Without Spoiling ThemBelow is a guest post from a great writer Melanie Hargrave. Me Book Review: It’s All About RelationshipBefore I got up the nerve to ask my wife on our first date near Piglet’s Salada da Favas – Broad Bean SaladMy original idea was to try Chica’s recipe of Broad Beans with Success – What Can Contribute To It?Last post we were discussing the roll of play and success. I aske A Chance Encounter with Jamie BeckwithIt was my lucky day recently! While shopping for a client at Rena |
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 Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for harmony and understanding — and I hope dreams of genuine good-faith dialogues are fulfilled. Maybe humbled Republicans and gracious Democrats will embrace; maybe they’ll hear the call to “get things done” and steer us from fiscal and environmental cliffs; maybe they’ll even walk hand-in-hand through meadows, whispering sweet … Continue reading: Demangling political religion, Part One  My colleague, Tom Carr, has been involved in environmental issues for over twenty years. He’s been fighting the good fight on climate change, and he e-mailed the following to 130 of his fellow clerics. With his permission, I indulged my fetish for editing (just a little bit), and I’ve posted it here, hoping it will … Continue reading: A pastor implores his colleagues: No more blindness on climate change  Knowing that the world faces issues far deeper than any one election can address — and knowing that most of the choices before me presented capable people who, nevertheless, make lousy Messiahs, and knowing that some of these capable people portrayed themselves as near-Messiahs while hinting that their opponents were the devil incarnate, and knowing … Continue reading: After filling in the ovals …  My friend Alexei Laushkin published the following prayer on his site, FOOLISHCONFIDENCE (find it here). I can’t really improve on it: ___ Lord we acknowledge you as Lord over this land. We pray for wisdom as we set out to vote today. Help us see your heart for the unborn, the marginalized, the poor. Your heart for the widow, the stranger, … Continue reading: An election-day prayer  Would anyone mind if I flung open a window and bellowed a primal scream: “It could have been different!”? Evangelical Christianity’s hijacking was not inevitable. We barely missed the bus. We could have traveled with a more sophisticated political theology, free from clichés of the Right and Left. Such were my thoughts as I read Moral Minority: The … Continue reading: Can the past point us to the future?  Some background: Poor business practices plunged the United States into the Great Depression during the 1930’s – much like poor business practices ignited the recent Great Recession. Then, as now, businesses were rescued by the federal government. Then, as now, many business associations turned on the government. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt penned this letter to Thomas … Continue reading: FDR’s frustration with business associations |
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