Can he do it? Can he save the world?

According the the polls, Americans believe that Obama CAN save us, but according to this article,

Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama's first administration, he added.

Hmmm. I don't think he can do it, even with an extended honeymoon period and the media in his hip pocket.

As for me, I'm betting on Jack Bauer coming in at the last minute to save the world! He's already done it multiple times.


Obama or Bauer. Where will you place your faith? Choose wisely.

Time to rethink bigotry, folks.

Listening to the media, you'd think only Christians are small minded bigots (certainly there are too many of them), but this video should correct that misconception. Here is an angry mob of folks supporting gay marriage rights attacking a GRANDMOTHER who has the audacity to speak out for what she believes is right (in America!!!).



Screaming at a grandma, tearing a cross from her hands and stomping on it? I know that by our politically correct definitions that certain groups are exempt from hate speech, but this should cause us to rethink those categories.

BTW, she gets my "Hero of the Year" award for standing in the face of such bigotry and bigots. This should go without saying, but they should be deeply ashamed. But I doubt they are bothered by it.

Click here for the report.

Keeping the Heat ON!

Check out this video of folks who are making a difference. Its the story of Mark Richt (Georgia football head coach) & his family and their journey into adoption.



"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world." - James 1:27

I think I might even cheer for Georgia now!

[HT: Vitamin Z]

The Hopeless Task for Human Heroes

Filed under: "Echoes of Another World"
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Okay, I'll admit it. I really am looking forward to watching "The Dark Knight." I've heard so much about Heath Ledger's role as the Joker, so much about the issues the film raises. And then I read Margie Haack's post and it just sealed the deal for me. The Dostoevesky quote was icing on the cake....

At the end of the Dark Knight I was left in want of a hero large enough to make life meaningful again, someone who could bring light to the set, who could heal the lives ruined by injustice, crime, ambition, violence. The Batman, the faltering, finite hero we love, disappears into the night still determined to try to fix the world, but everyone, including him, knows how impossible and grievous this calling will be.

The movie underscores how hopeless this task for human heroes – to heal the earth of all its injustices, to offer choice even to The Jokers of the world. We wait for consummation, like Simeon the priest waited for the Consolation of Israel. Dostoevsky describes it perfectly in The Brothers Karamazov:

I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood that they’ve shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.

Read her whole review here. While you are at it, bookmark Dennis & Margie Haack's amazing site called Ransom Fellowship, a great analysis of pop culture from an informed Biblical worldview.