Teach Me Oh Lord, To Love Like You

As I'm reflecting during Advent, I am really drawn to this idea of an Annual Posada. I'm thinking of setting something like this up next year. There are a lot of traditions that I want to collect from the past, and also new ones that my friends and family can appreciate moving forward. Check this out How to Celebrate a Mexican Posada: A Packet for Lay Leaders, Musicians, and Clergy by Hugo Olaiz Keeping Advent I am thinking about how we as Christians fail to bring the Love of Jesus, and instead bring about hate and American frustrations out on the people who are struggling through this world beside us. In People magazine I read about two Muslim Mosques that were vandalized with the word “Jesus” written on the walls. This made the news, it made my radio broadcast on KFI that I listen to, and it really got me thinking. I don’t believe this is THE WAY that Jesus set our for us. Jesus would NOT have done this. This goes back to a major point that I am starting to...

The Israeli Palestinian Conflict: 10 Myths Preventing Peace i love it when people try and make complicated issues more easily understood through bite size chunks of oversimplified information (sarcasm and total lack of sarcasm included). I'd rather they not be bite size chunks of propaganda, but people are biased.  i rather liked Richard Fecteau3's link to Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio: 'An excellent historical primer on the situation "The truth about Israel and Palestine I usually don't like listening to Atheists talk about religion, mostly because they admittedly don't get it. It's not their bag. Nevertheless, this video is artistic and worth a gander, and the video below is an interesting listen, if anything, just for perspective.