Tom Toles, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1990, is the editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post. His cartoons appear in the newspaper and on its Web site every day except Saturday, and are syndicated in nearly 200 publications nationwide.
David K. Clark, (Former) Professor of Theology Bethel Seminary & currently Executive Vice President and Provost of Bethel University
The Purpose of Theoretical Foundations
We seek shalom. This includes acting against racism. Action presupposes and lives out a theoretical foundation. Any attempt to prevail over racial conflict demands solid theoretical analysis. While building theories is necessary, it's never sufficient as a response to racism.
Racism evokes sadness, anger, and disgust. Sometimes we merely think about racism; sometimes we only develop right opinions about racism. That makes us feel as though we're doing something about racism. Thinking for understanding is good, but thinking about racism instead of acting on it is not. Racism should ignite emotions and stir up action. If any person is subjected to a racial slur or insult, a racial injustice or systemic oppression, our common humanity should cause us to feel as though someone just made a lewd remark about a beloved family member. And we should respond with action. Read the whole article here.....
The two cities, victims of the atomic bomb, would like to host the Games to launch the message of a nuclear-free world by 2020. All in agreement, but political and economic problems may lead to the rejection of the idea.
THE HOARIEST and most oft-repeated cliche in American politics may be that America is the greatest country in the world. Every politician, Democrat and Republican, seems duty bound to pander to this idea of American exceptionalism, and woe unto him who hints otherwise. This country is “the last, best hope of mankind,’’ or the “shining city on the hill,’’ or the “great social experiment.’’ As if this weren’t enough, Jimmy Carter upped the fawning ante 30 years ago by uttering arguably the most damning words in modern American politics. He called for a “government as good as the American people,’’ thus taking national greatness and investing it in each and every one of us.
Carter was speaking when Watergate was fresh, and government had been disgraced, but still. The fact of the matter is that whenever anything really significant has been accomplished by our government, it is precisely because it was better than the American people.
Think of World War II, America’s entrance into which was strenuously resisted by the populace until Franklin Roosevelt carefully laid the groundwork and Pearl Harbor made it inevitable. Think of civil rights, which Lyndon Johnson pressed despite widescale opposition, and not just in the South. Even then it took more than 100 years. Or think of the current health care debate in which Americans seem to desire some sort of reform, just not a reform that would significantly help people in dire need, while the Obama administration is pushing to provide that assistance. In the end, government has inspired Americans far more than Americans have inspired their government. They are too busy boasting. Read the whole editorial here………… Neal Gabler is the author, most recently, of “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination.’’
American who took kids from ex-wife remains jailed at least 10 more days
Fri., Oct . 9, 2009
TOKYO - Japanese police said Friday that they are keeping an American man in custody for 10 more days before authorities decide whether to press charges against him for snatching his children from his ex-wife.
Christopher Savoie, of Franklin, Tennessee, was arrested Sept. 28 after allegedly grabbing his two children, ages 8 and 6, from his Japanese ex-wife as they walked to school. He will remain held in city of Yanagawa where he was arrested, on the southern island of Kyushu, police official Kiyonori Tanaka said.
Savoie's Japanese lawyer, Tadashi Yoshino, was not immediately available for comment.
Nissan unveiled Thursday a futuristic concept car, the "Land Glider," that tilts to the side when going around bends to make drivers feel like they are gliding through the air.
Norman Grubb gave this series of addresses in 1954 at the Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan and Deeper Life Conference in Karuizawa, Japan. In these eight days of love and fellowship he pours out his own 'missionary heart' to them as only one who has "walked their walk" can do!
We, the reader, also profit from his wisdom as he thoughtfully develops each stage of our union with Christ from the beginnings in our new birth to our entire sanctification and finally as intercessors for our worlds… "Little children, Young men, Fathers.” Throughout the days shared we find Norman's life motto…"Not God and – but God only!"
The principal of the kindergarten-junior school of the InternationalSchool of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo and her husband have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling marijuana into Japan from the United States, Tokyo police said Friday. Shirley Lane, 59, who lives in Tokyo, allegedly had her 62-year-old husband Thomas send a parcel containing 5.9 grams of marijuana to her in late September from Florida.
The marijuana was found by customs officers at Narita airport near Tokyo. The international school in the Sacred Heart school group said Shirley Lane arrived in Japan to take the post last August. Yvonne Hayes, the headmistress of the international school, told reporters Friday she was so shocked she did not know what to say.
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Norman Grubb gave this series of addresses in 1954 at the Evangelical Missionary Association of Japan and Deeper Life Conference in Karuizawa, Japan. In these eight days of love and fellowship he pours out his own 'missionary heart' to them as only one who has "walked their walk" can do!
Tom Toles, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1990, is the editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post. His cartoons appear in the newspaper and on its Web site every day except Saturday, and are syndicated in nearly 200 publications nationwide. 
We seek shalom. This includes acting against racism. Action presupposes and lives out a theoretical foundation. Any attempt to prevail over racial conflict demands solid theoretical analysis. While building theories is necessary, it's never sufficient as a response to racism.
THE HOARIEST and most oft-repeated cliche in American politics may be that 
