Having faith in a person, a spouse perhaps, doesn’t require any specific action from the one in whom you have faith. It is a matter of sheer trust. It is open-ended: My faith in Christine is based not on facts I know about her (though they certainly enter in), but on my relationship with her, my experience with her. Faith in her doesn’t require her to do something, as in “I have faith that she will win the race.” It just requires her to be her. Faith in a person is trusting the character of the person. And that comes from relationship–shared experience over time.
by Thomas Paine Retiring Indiana Senator Evan Bayh is right on. The original concept of the public servant is dead. All we are left with is career politicians whose only ambition is to either hold their office forever or seek higher ones. There is no difference between Republicans and Democrats. In addition to voting out …
By Foster Kedzie III What is behind the Chinese government’s ideology that it needs to repress religion and cultural diversity? This question came up in the context of the supression of Tibet and the objections raised by the Chinese government when world leaders meet with the Dalai Lama. With regard to the “religion” issue, it …
By Steve Stav China is urging the US to cancel a meeting between Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama. This has gotten me thinking. If we’d only paid attention to MacArthur and dropped a bomb or two on these bastards, they wouldn’t be beatin’ up monks, imprisoning dissenters and executing retarded people today. But then …
by Steve Stav Just as the old saying about a liberal is just someone who hasn’t been mugged yet, logic would seem to dictate that the Right’s foot soldier-regiment on this issue would be in a constant state of flux. Reason would suggest that the dum-dums, as they experience their own health care crises, would …
Thoughts about Haiti and Pat Robertson By Greg Sager I don’t claim to be an expert on the nation of Haiti, but unlike a lot of people who’ve chimed in with their two cents on the country in the wake of this week’s earthquake I’ve actually been there. I went to Haiti on a missions …
Many of you already know and love John X. Ambrosavage. In the 1990s, he was named “America’s Best Loved Cartoonist” and “An American Treasure” by persons who ought to know. Time has only sharpened his humor. He has built up a website loaded with years (decades) of furious hahas. East PortlandBlog is an ardent Ambro …