Apprentice 2 Jesus

Politics

  • When Christianity and Nationalism Collide

    One of the key reasons I use the name “Apprentice2 Jesus” is the deep need I see for American evangelicals, especially conservatives, to separate themselves from being Americans who happen to be Christians and identify themselves as Christians who happen to be American. I should say “WE” need to do this, since I would fall… Read more

  • Monday Thoughts

    Some random thoughts from the weekend, last week, etc. Obama and the Supremes President Obama will get his first appointment to the Supreme Court. Souter is retiring and now the hand-wringing begins. Conservatives are worried he will find someone even more liberal than Souter. Liberals are worried Obama may not get someone liberal enough. When… Read more

  • A Republican Prays for a Democrat This election cycle gets a lot of recycling. It seems to me, and I hear it often from others, that this election is more divisive. Then, I remember saying that about the LAST election. But the election is what is on people’s minds, even if they don’t want it… Read more

  • A Republican prays for a Democrat

    This election cycle gets a lot of recycling. It seems to me, and I hear it often from others, that this election is more divisive. Then, I remember saying that about the LAST election. But the election is what is on people’s minds, even if they don’t want it on their minds. So, we “pray.”… Read more

  • It’s campaign season. Has been for, what, three years now? Seems that way. And you KNOW it’s a long campaign season when you get major breaking news over John McCain’s wife and plagiarized recipes! Nothing going on with foreign policy, economic policy, or national security. Nope. We are busy investigating FAKE RECIPES! Journalism at its… Read more

  • Another legend passes off the sceneHis corner in heaven will need to be FAR from Larry Norman’s. This is also the wide difference between my wife and myself in people we admired growing up. Larry Norman on the one hand, Bill Buckley on the other. William F Buckley passed away this week. He was a… Read more

  • Another legend passes off the sceneHis corner in heaven will need to be FAR from Larry Norman’s. This is also the wide difference between my wife and myself in people we admired growing up. Larry Norman on the one hand, Bill Buckley on the other. William F Buckley passed away this week. He was a… Read more

  • A question on politics, which is a dangerous subject… Yesterday in a Bible study an analogy was being given that dealt with the branches of government. It got me thinking. The analogy was the Legislative Branch writes the law. It’s up to the Executive Branch to enforce the law. Let me make this abundantly clear… Read more

  • What IS the deal with Kansas? Several years ago there was a book entitled, What’s the Matter with Kansas? Of course it was a liberal who grew up in a wealthy suburb of Kansas City who had not been there in years wondering what had happened to his dim memory of some “populist” state. His… Read more

  • What IS the deal with Kansas? Several years ago there was a book entitled, What’s the Matter with Kansas? Of course it was a liberal who grew up in a wealthy suburb of Kansas City who had not been there in years wondering what had happened to his dim memory of some “populist” state. His… Read more