Saturday, September 4, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Dexter Van Zile: Oslo Syndrome Redux? A Look Back at Divestment in the Presbyterian Church (USA) - '...People will be watching the PC(USA) pretty closely for the foreseeable future. The denomination's peace activists have engaged in some pretty irresponsible behavior over the past several years. They've demonized Israel, ignored the misdeeds of its adversaries and attacked Jewish groups in the U.S. in pretty ugly ways. The events in Minneapolis indicate the denomination has found another way to work for peace in the Middle East. Hopefully for everyone's sake, this is in fact the case, because as Gustav Niebuhr said, "Reputations are hard to win and they are easy to lose."'
