Stranger in a Strange Land

Grace and Peace to all my faithful blog-checkers!
I have been soooooo busy with school this semester that I have fallen down on the blogging job. In addition, I have been living on Facebook (add me!) and Twitter (mcgrawmatty… follow me!) because they are small, quick outlets and don’t require quite as much thought as [...]

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Below is a portion of an on-going conversation between myself and someone else being held via facebook.
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The homosexual issue is one that conservative, evangelical Christianity has landed on as being of particular importance and I’m not sure why. God does not rank sin. *If* homosexuality is in fact a sin, it [...]

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Greetings and Blessings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
You have discovered my blog. Welcome! I am glad you are here. I invite you to take a look around and read some of my thoughts. As you do, however, I would like to say the following by way of introduction.
I, [...]

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I have been blogging about McCain and Obama a lot lately as well as posting items and making comments on Facebook about the upcoming election. I have been getting LOTS of grief from friends and even people I don’t know because I have been supportive of Obama/Biden and critical of McCain/Palin. I wanted [...]

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With all the talk this election and convention season about patriotism and flag pins, I wanted to address one of many “targets” in the patriotism debate, The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. First, let’s read it together since many of us haven’t said it since elementary school:
I pledge allegiance to the flag of [...]

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I watched all but the first 5 or 6 minutes of the Saddleback Civil Forum yesterday and much of the coverage afterwords. I must say, anyone who has been concerned about the media “love fest” for Sen. Obama should feel much better after listening to hosts from CNN, MSNBC and Fox News gushing over [...]

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The Associated Press has released an article in response to an 18 minute “rant” (for lack of a better word) by Jimmy Dobson broadcast on his “Focus on the Family” radio program. As the AP has a record of suing bloggers over using their articles, you can read the article yourself via the Denver [...]

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Well, I got the redirection set up and we are ready to go at blog.thestrangeland.net!
Everyone who is reading this in a feed reader, please resubscribe at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/thestrangeland
Thanks, everyone for being so patient while things are in upheaval… more soon
possible upcoming topic: modernism vs post-moderninsm in the 2008 Presidential election
Cheers,
Matty

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Is anybody checking out the new blog? What do you guys think? I’m eager to hear some feedback!
Cheers,Matt

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