Some recent links ...
Here's part 1 of my most recent post at sojo.net, relating to the recent "Manhattan Declaration" from some important religious leaders ... Here's part 2. After the jump, an important release from the White House about Native Americans and Thanksgiving ... with a few comments and book recommendations: Continue reading Some recent links ......

Thanksgiving 2009
A song I posted several months ago, but that is still singing in my heart:

Countdown Day 76
Morning after morning, I woke up in the brutal tension between something real and something wrong in Christian faith. The sense of something real kept me in ministry and in Christian faith; the sense of something wrong kept me looking for a way out. (7-8) From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)

Discernment websites ...
I wonder if some of the "discernment websites" that enjoy featuring and critiquing the work of many of my friends and me would be willing to host some discussion on this bill currently proposed in the Ugandan parliament. I'd be interested in reading whether participants in those blogs agree with the Ugandan bill, and if not, why not. (Details after the jump) Continue reading Discernment websites ......

Musical commentary on Romans 12:1-2
from Bon Jovi ... here.