Give Me A Break!

This blog will not be updated for the next month or so.

See you in August!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Science and Faith

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use."  -Galileo Galilei (as quoted  here ).  Recently, there has been this idea in our culture that science and religion are opposed; that either you can understand the world through reason or through faith, but not both. But this is a relatively recent idea that developed during the Enlightenment. In my opinion, it is also a false idea.  This debate is of great importance to me. On the one hand, I am a scientist of language, while on the other, I am a person of faith. Some people might assume, then, that I experience a great deal of cognitive dissonance--that I have two conflicting views that I need to juggle in my head. But although I do experience cognitive dissonance in some areas, this is not the case at all when it comes to science and faith.  Faith can inform science and science can inform faith, but faith has no p...
Read more

No One Is Illegal

One of my friends brought a few dozen flowers to work, and was handing them out. I asked what they were for, and he said it was for a rally for someone who was being detained. The person couldn't be deported, but also they were not allowing them in the country, and so they were in jail, and had been for over five years. At the rally, there had been a flower for every day he had been detained. In an effort to understand why this had happened, I asked if they had entered the country illegally. Rather brusquely, my friend responded, "No one is illegal." They rather had a point. What does it mean to be illegal? Your very existence is against the law? Someone's actions may be illegal, but a person? Your very existence? That is pretty twisted, quite messed up. Of course, when someone is said to be "illegal" they don't mean they aren't allowed to exist, but that they're not allowed to exist "here." But really, is that any better?...
Read more

The Story of this Blog

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth,  judge righteously, defend the rights of  the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9 (ESV) The Idea I'm not exactly sure how the idea of starting a blog was planted in my mind, but from the first, I felt like the idea came from God. It seemed a little silly, like, Are you sure that God wants you to start a blog? Would anyone actually read it? What could possibly be His purpose in that?  But even more than that, it seemed scary. They say you're not supposed to talk about politics, or about religion, and definitely not about politics and  religion, in polite company. It gets people upset. But that was exactly the idea that was behind this blog--politics and social justice issues, and how the Bible and my faith intersect with them. But the thought persisted, though I pushed it down. A few days later, at a Bible study, a friend told us something he had been taught about how to di...
Read more