Abraham Lincoln said, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Has America started down this road? Yes.

I am not happy with the results of the 2010 elections. I think the elections turned on misinformation, anger, and fear.

This election, some good people were elected and other good people lost.

A local Connecticut race for the state Senate seat has shown two candidates from opposing parties running a unique campaign of civility. The race between incumbent state Senator Andrew Maynard and Republican challenger Stuart Norman is what Sojourners has been urging in our Truth and Civility campaign.

While I regularly watch The Daily Show and think its political satire is second to none, the Rally to Restore Sanity that was held on the Mall in Washington, D.C.

Van Gogh. SF Giants. All Saints' Day. Here's a little round up of links from around the web you may have missed this week.

In the last few weeks, as seems to happen every election year, both parties along with some pastors and churches are stretching (or

When a radical, small Christian church threatened to burn copies of the Quaran on September 11, here in Gainesville, Florida, the international media descended upon our city. Reporters came to town from all over the world. They gave the minister of this small church a sense of importance which only fed the problem.