Category Archives: Christianity in the Public Square

December twenty-first is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. That makes the 22nd the first day of more sun! Let me spell that out. Beginning this week we’re on a path toward “sun breaks” and dry sidewalks, a … Continue reading →

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-tarico/canadian-health-care-five_b_397424.html I married a Canadian, which got me, among other things, some pretty awesome Canadian in-laws, a bunch of friends who think hockey is actually worth watching (not for the same reason I do, which is to nerd out on … Continue reading →

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-tarico/ode-to-health-care-reform_b_389456.html   Since I’ve been told this is the season of doggerel . . . The Party of Nohad nowhere to gobut backwardsto get to the future."Uh, that doesn’t work,"said a brazen Young Turk."Someone please shut them upwith a cloture!" … Continue reading →

(Huffington Post, November 5, 2009) As the Right Wing base sinks to new levels of insanity taking the Republican brand with it, “going stealth”  has become the campaign strategy of choice in districts where an all-out, Teabagger Town Hall, Palin-Beck, … Continue reading →

(Huffington Post, October 18, 2009) The most controversial check I write each year is the one that goes to a small nonprofit called Project Prevention. Project Prevention pays drug addicts and chronic alcoholics to get permanent or long term birth … Continue reading →