Day: June 25, 2008

noah and i went to play disc golf with penza this afternoon. we went to yulga which is not a smart place to take a kid for his first time playing disc golf.

man, that’s a hard course.

for those who have never played disc golf i’ll tell you the reason that yulga is so hard … trees. as you can tell from the photo above someone thought it would be fun to set up a disc golf course in the middle of a pine forest. all i know is that it’s frustrating because trees and flying discs don’t mix very well.

SIDE NOTE – while i’m not sure who i will be voting for in our upcoming presidential race (neither candidate sees things exactly as i do – for example, obama supports abortion, mccain supports the death penalty, i am pro-life and thus opposed to both) i would like to say that james dobson does not speak for me. i don’t think dobson treated obama’s statements fairly at all.

i love public radio. i listen to it all the time. saturday while driving back from a camp planning meeting i was able to listen to a couple of interesting interviews, 1) richard dawkins talking about how he believes religion is useless, and 2) alistar mcgrath (who is one of my favorite writers) talking about how faith is the greatest. this post is not about how i think dawkins is wrong (which i do) but rather concerning one statement that dawkins made. when asked about sin dawkins said that he felt like the only “sins” CHRISTians every talked about where private sins, which he believes do not effect society. he said that churches never discussed societal or public evil that effects everyone. this is what i would like to talk about, is dawkins right? do we only talk about private sins and never public sins? what sins do churches confront and what sins do churches usually ignore?

ok, i know it’s not much of a list but i have camp stuff that i am working on right now. all i really wanted to do was get this down somewhere. so what do you think? what evils are confronted and what evils are ignored within the modern evangelical church? what about within the modern liberal church? within the fundamentalist church?