Christine Sine: Rhythm and Ritual to Live By (part 1)

Our world seems to grow busier every day with conflicting commitments that pull us in many directions. Some of us feel the weight of changing the world lies on our shoulders. We know we are too busy but don’t know how to disconnect from our fast paced cyber-spaced world. Anxiety, depression and suicide are increasing. Growing evidence suggests stress and pressure of overbooked schedules are major contributors. God’s healthy rhythms are blurred by a culture that says there is never time to slow down or take a break.

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They got their man in the White House, but now issues are coming up that they never anticipated having to address and they're noticeably unprepared.
A government with Judeo-Christian values is one thing, but how many theocracies can we cite that are working?

This country was founded and built on the backs of immigrants (illegal and otherwise). And now that it's the most affluent, safest, and powerful nation in the world—what, we don't want to share? "Okay, you guys helped us get it the way we like it, now go home. We'll take it from here."
What happened to:

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore; send these the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"?

Ran across this the other day:

"A Christianity which will bear witness to God's Word in Jesus will be a speaking, thinking,arguing, debating Christianity, which will not be afraid to engage in intellectual and philosophical contest with the prevailing dogmas of its day."

-- Oliver O'Donovan, Begotten or Made? (Clarendon Press, 1984)

The Blog of the American Chesterton Society: Consumerism

The holidays having just passed, this seemed quite timely:

http://www.chesterton.org/discover/nutshell/consumerism.htm

And, of course this past Monday...

"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind."

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.