@jake--Thanks for the comments. I think you're rig...

2007-05-30T11:00:00.000-04:00

@jake--Thanks for the comments. I think you're right: there is some validity in our natural tendency to group with those who are like us.

It's nice to have your lawyer's perspective on government and church. Law and faith...I do think there is a tension between unity and individuality that the gospel helps us live in.

Pluse, I think that unity doesn't mean uniformity, which is a helpful caveat.

Doesn't it seem like our efforts to create the per...

2007-05-30T08:22:00.000-04:00

Doesn't it seem like our efforts to create the perfect "rainbow coalition" rage against our most basic urges to break off into groups, separate with those most akin to us, etc.?

I wonder if there's a "Gospel" insight there. I.e., in much the same way that the civil government and authority ask us not to act upon our most basic impulses (toward prejudice and violence, etc.) through the passage of laws and the push for movements in the opposite direction, the Church says, "Look, we all know we've got urges toward what is less than good. Here's our insight into the metaphysics of the same problem." Hence, the dovetailing of law and faith.

I've never finished Malcom X's autobiography. I know people who were entrenched in a racist upbringing who, after reading it, were forever changed.

Comments on drew moser: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

@jake--Thanks for the comments. I think you're rig...

Doesn't it seem like our efforts to create the per...