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Tag Archives: politics
What to do in the worst of times
It’s been a long week of confrontation here in this country. Far right groups, sometimes including elements of the KKK or white supremacist neo-Nazi groups have been countered by those on the left supporting anti-racists and anti-hate positions. Last night … Continue reading
Pardon the politics; feel the pain
The Catch has a friend; his name is Alex, and he is 25 years old. That makes him an official millennial. We consult with him about the Internet, and he teaches us a lot about his generation. First off, he … Continue reading
Homogeneousness is not next to godliness
“We are in a season of lament,” says the pastor of a church divided politically down the middle, right down to his own marriage. Linda, one of those church members and a regular Catch reader who experiences that division in … Continue reading
Get serious!
I’m getting close to being mad, but then again, that would be against everything I’m about to say. Still I have a question: how long have I been holding forth in this little corner of cyberspace — questioning, suggesting, sometimes … Continue reading
What America needs now
It’s the hammer of justice … Continue reading
What’s great about living in America right now
“It’s not about morality, it’s about grace; it’s not about politics, it’s about people; it’s not about what we’re against, it’s about who we’re for.” And the battle’s just begun There’s many who lost, but tell me who has won? … Continue reading
Living in a meaner, tougher nation
Where is George Herbert Walker Bush when we need him? If we ever needed that “kinder, gentler nation” he talked about, it’s now. But it seems so distant, doesn’t it? Isn’t that soft? Isn’t that weak to be kind and … Continue reading
Christians and cultural ambiguity
Yesterday’s Catch apparently created a number of favorable tweets. My wife, Marti, thought it contained one of my best sentences ever in, “And even if [government] could get people to behave like Christians, without a relationship with Jesus Christ, they, … Continue reading
