Social Justice and that radio guy

Posted by Sean on March 14, 2010 at 3:13 pm

Earlier this week Glenn Beck made waves by urging Christians to leave any church that supports social justice.  Promptly after he made these statements, prominent Christians all over the country reacted negatively and started to urge their followers to boycott Beck.  While I understand the reaction, I’m wondering if it was the correct one.  After all, this wouldn’t be the first time Christians made a knee jerk reaction and made the wrong move. Read the rest of this entry »

In praise of honest questions

Posted by Sean on April 22, 2009 at 2:15 pm

No doubt you’ve heard about the kerfuffle surrounding Miss California in the Miss USA pageant on April 18.  If you haven’t then you are truly a blessed person and I’m going to introduce you to it – and thus remove your blessing I guess. Basically in the Q&A section she was asked whether she thought states should allow homosexual marriage.  She answered honestly and happened to say that she did not believe in homosexual marriage. She ended up as the runner-up – many people say she would have won has she answered the question oppositely. I really don’t care about her answer, which I thought was oddly phrased and not well thought out, but hey she was nervous and probably expecting a question about world peace or something. My problem is with the questioner, a well known tabloid personality, who happens to be very pro-homosexual marriage.  He asked the question thinking that he would get a particular answer based upon his bias and he didn’t get that answer.  Ever since he has ravaged this young lady at every opportunity, because she did not answer the way he would have liked. Read the rest of this entry »