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I Don't Know What To Make Of The Muslim Mystics, Especially Those Who Have Come To Be Known As The Sufis. What Do They Experience In Their Mystic Experiences? Could They Have Encountered The Same God We Do In Our Christian Mysticism?

What We Need To Affirm Is That Jesus Is Neither A Democrat Nor A Republican. Whenever We Marry Jesus To A Political Party, We Are Committing The Sin Of Idolatry. We Are Making Jesus Into The Image Of Our Political Party.

I Am Not Suggesting That All Those Missionary Organizations Working In Haiti Should Pack Up And Go Home, But I Am Urging Them To Understand That Haiti Does Not Need Clever Americans With Newly Contrived Schemes For Saving Their Country.

I Have Serious Problems With Fundamentalist Christians And Their Creationist Theories. Although I Believe That Scripture Is Divinely Inspired And Infallible, I Have A Hard Time Going Along With The Belief That The Whole Creation Process Occurred In Six Twenty-four Hour Days. My Skepticism Is Due, In Part, To The Fact That The Bible Says That The Sun Wasn’t Created Until The Fourth Day Of Creation (genesis 1:16-19). I Have A Hard Time Figuring How Twenty-four Hour Days Could Have Been Measured Before That.

Because Of The Increase In Life Longevity, America Can Now Assume That At Any Given Time Three, And Perhaps Four, Former Presidents Will Still Be Alive, Even When The Current President Is Occupying The White House.