Community Organizing 101
5 Sep 2008 3:28pm GMT At the Republican National Convention this week, Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin mocked to great applause Barack Obama's role as a "community organizer" in Chicago more than two decades ago. According to a story in the Chicago Tribune, Obama worked "alongside low-income residents in the Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development." The work itself involved "pushing for asbestos removal at Altgeld, pressing for a local job-training office, even agitating to fill potholes...
The Palin Choice
29 Aug 2008 6:13pm GMT John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin works on so many levels:-- Palin is a pro-life person of faith, energizing evangelicals about the ticket in a way McCain hasn't;-- She is (obviously) a woman, thereby stealing a lot of the Obama thunder as the first African-American nominee and probably attracting the votes of many women;-- Palin has first-hand knowledge of the energy industry, no small thing in the current political climate of $4 a gallon gas and the growing national desire to start...
Redeeming Law
26 Aug 2008 8:35pm GMT In a cynical society suspicious of lawyers, Christian law schools are decidedly not.By Tim Stafford
Ancient Parable, Urgent Time
21 Aug 2008 3:10pm GMT We face a challenge of both global and spiritual proportions.
The Excitement of Hope
11 Aug 2008 7:14pm GMT A CT editorial.