Commentary

In my capacity as a volunteer Lay Chaplain at Gritman Hospital, in Moscow, Idaho, I’ve been doing some hall walking. Walking that leads me into the rooms of perfect strangers.

There is no single definition or even description of art, is there. But in a broad sense, art is a significant form of communication.

I don’t ever want to be tolerated; I want to be accepted. Who doesn’t?

Like a great many people across our country, I was both surprised and moved as I listened to Mitt Romney speak on Wednesday. What caught my attention was not the decision that he reached – evaluating that decision, be it wrong, right, or somewhere in between, is the domain of a political commentator rather than a pastor – but rather it was the way that he spoke of making it.

The sound secular position is that governments ought to have no power to coerce belief, or enforce lack of it. That was the principle on which our Republic was founded, and it ought to be the model for all the earth.

Traditionally the water is poured into the ground in a dry well under a church or may be disposed of at another undisturbed location.