July 12, 2008 Jim Wallis is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sojourners and the organizer of Call to Renewal where Obama spoke on the role of faith and politics. (Interestingly, not only were Obama and Hillary Clinton speakers, but so where Republicans Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback.)
Wallis has written a good response to Dobson’s critique of Obama’s Call to Renewal speech.
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July 12, 2008 On June 24, James Dobson aired a radio broadcast severely critiquing Obama’s 2006 speech at Call to Renewal. [CNN coverage]. I was amazed by Obama’s speech when I first heard it, apparently more than a year before Dobson did. In the speech Obama expounds the essential role of personal faith in the political process. I was not used to Democrats making this case. It was an enlarging moment for me.
Apparently Dobson thinks this speech is a personal attack on him.
Alison and I had been aware of the media flareup around this, but had not heard Dobson’s actual broadcast. We stayed up late last night, first watching the video of Obama’s Call to Renewal speech and then listening to Dobson’s critique.
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July 12, 2008 If you haven’t checked out Pat’s other site lately, here’s what you’ve been missing:
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July 12, 2008 Over the last few days I’ve pushed through a long planned relaunch of my other site, embracethegodlife.com. Although there are still a few features to add in, it is mostly completed.
I’d love for you to come by, check it out, and leave a comment or two.
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July 10, 2008 If I had to pick a theme song for Alison and I at our 10th Anniversary, it would have to be Bucky Covington’s “It Good to Be Us”.
It’s good to be us,
good to be breathing
Day after night after day, this feeling
Feels the way it should
If this is as good as it gets, then good
It’s good to be us
I love the line “If this is as good as it gets, then good”. It sure fits our life now. In so many ways it seems that we’re living our dreams.
I was going to put the video to “It’s Good to Be Us” here for people to listen to, but it is so random and weird (Bucky is singing the song in a concert at a Dirtbike race in the video) that I just couldn’t do it.
So click here to listen instead.
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July 6, 2008 Tuesday: Alison is back home in Indiana after a fantastic, fun visit in GA!
Tuesday: Pat is back from the ATL.
Wednesday: Alison just enjoyed a fresh, juicy peach - yum!
Thursday: Alison is hanging out with her brother who came for the weekend.
Thursday: Pat has been married 10 years + 1 week.
Saturday: Alison loves her awesomely wonderful, handsome, fun, super terrific husband of 10 years!!!!
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July 5, 2008 Last Friday was our 10th Anniversary. In some ways, it’s hard to believe its already been 10 years. In other ways, its hard to believe its only been 10 years.
We celebrated this milestone by taking the family to the Georgia Aquarium and to Bruster’s. Somehow, this seemed like the perfect way to celebrate the changes in our lives over these years.
Here’s the Entrance of the Bride from our wedding, 10 years ago.
On our Wedding Day:
Our family now:
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June 29, 2008 Sunday: Pat enjoyed introducing “The Music Man” to the kids this weekend.
Monday: Alison is getting things ready for our GA trip.Monday: Pat just finished a great run. Now he’s going to introduce his bro-in-law to the joys of Brook’s Riverside Pizza!
Tuesday: Alison needs to finish the laundry, do some housecleaning & pack loads of stuff for our trip tomorrow.
Tuesday: Alison still has WAY too much to do before leaving for GA tomorrow morning!
Wednesday: Pat is hanging in the ATL.
Friday: Pat is celebrating 10 years married to Alison.
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June 23, 2008 Sunday: Alison thinks Pat is an awesome husband & dad!
Sunday: Pat is having a tremendous Father’s Day!
Monday: Alison finally got a good babysitter & went on a date with Pat!
Tuesday: Pat is writing a lesson on Postmodern Philosophers (and is connected to the internet in Starbucks for the first time. Yeah Starbucks rewards!)
Tuesday: Alison is getting ready to make loads of pudding for the Summer’s Cool snack tomorrow.
Wednesday: Alison is relaxing even though there is plenty to do.
Friday: Alison enjoyed spending the evening with the neighbors.
Saturday: Pat is trying hard to get back in the discipline of blogging.
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June 21, 2008 After extensive research I am pleased to announce that I have pioneered a new health plan: the ELMM Diet. Those who follow the ELMM Diet are guaranteed* to develop a greater level of health and fitness.
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