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Supreme test

Obama's Supreme Court pick is going to put my blogging resolve to the test. 

Apparently, Affirmative Action is going to be a key factor in the coming confirmation battle over Sonia Sotomayor. If I can't get fired up to discuss this subject, then I am in real trouble.

Reverse discrimination, which I am happy to see MSNBC using instead of the euphemistic Affirmative Action, is often mentioned by outraged majority culture people who seem to have just figured out what AA is.

Once we decide to call it what it is we can get around to talking about why we should or shouldn't do it. One of the reasons we have such outrage about the idea, I will contend, is that we are still not repentant as a nation. 

We'll take a look again at reconciliation principles and see how it applies. 

Talk to you soon.

Another boost

Last night I got back on the lecture circuit with a short presentation on how Martin Luther King's faith influenced the Civil Rights movement, and, conversely, how the movement influenced his faith.

I was invited to speak on the subject by a campus group and spoke before a small group of international students on the subject. This particular talk was a first for me, so it was fun to launch some new material.

To me it's vital to understand that the principles of reconciliation can be applied and experienced by people, regardless of their faith status, and that the subject provides a perfect opportunity for people to discover faith in action rather than just in words.

King was a man of doubts and publicly disclosed personal shortcomings, but he held tight onto one core belief, that all of God's people were created equal and were deserving of life and love and respect. This was true of his black brethren. This was true of his enemies and oppressors. This was true of poor people from every race and background. This was even true of Vietnamese halfway across the world.

He put into action the one thing he was sure about, and along the way, according to biographers, he discovered a deep faith that allowed him to face down and even accept death.

Breaking the slump

OK. Trying to get out of the longest, most-serious writing slump of my life.

A good friend of mine told me that the only way to get out of it was to get out of it. 

So, I am writing today and hopefully will continue posting until I actually start writing something worth reading. I have promised to write about Somali pirates, and there is a whole bunch more on my mind these days.

So, here's hoping this is the beginning of a my return.

If you're one to pray, send up some words for me. OK?

See you soon.