 | AdventureSeeker7 is a 56 year old married guy from Michigan, USA.
If you are looking for pretty pictures you won't find them on my site unless they are of places to backpack. But you will find links to interesting articles about the Christian faith, politics and backpacking.
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 - compost toilets
 Jun 30, 2008 7:45pm  (4 reviews) environment http://www.lowimpact.org/factsheet_compo... indoors or outdoors? many people imagine that a compost toilet must be situated outdoors, but if done properly, there will be no smells, and an indoor toilet will be much more comfortable
- Forgive Us Our Debts | Liveblog | Christianity Today
- Jun 30, 2008 10:01am
 (1 review) christianity, finances http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctlive... - From the page: "As we are seeing, fiscal irresponsibility can be devestating not just to those whose houses are foreclosed upon, but neighbors, lenders, other borrowers, the growing numbers of unemployed, and on and on as the effects ripple through the economy. So, it's about time that some thinkers have begun discussing debt not simply in economic terms, but moral ones. "
- From Four Laws to Four Circles | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical...
- Jun 30, 2008 9:55am (1 review) christianity, evangelsim http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008...
- From the page: "It may not be a coincidence that when James Choung, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, set out to help college students explain the gospel to their friends, he turned to the most beloved tool in an engineer's arsenal: the napkin diagram. Choung, who now serves as the divisional director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in San Diego, has spent his life in ministry on and around college campuses, where Christians today are met with a paradoxical and perplexing combination of suspicion and openness. The Christian Vision Project's big question in 2008 is, Is our gospel too small? Choung is working to persuade skeptical studentsâ€"and their Christian friendsâ€"that the answer is "No.""
- Jun 29, 2008 5:22am
- ya-ttitude
- Jun 28, 2008 11:56am (18 reviews) self-improvement http://ya-ttitude.com/blog/
- I have a terrible attitude right now, so I am going to read a page of this site several times a week to see how good his advise is.
- Gallup.Com - Daily News, Polls, Public Opinion on Government, Politics...
- Jun 26, 2008 6:11am (11 reviews) political-science http://www.gallup.com/
- Not sure about what you think on any given issue, let George tell you what everybody else is thinking
- Gods Politics - Jim Wallis blog, faith blog, religion, christian, christianity...
- Jun 26, 2008 5:39am (3 reviews) politics, religion http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/
- From the page: "James Dobson is insinuating himself into this presidential campaign, and his attacks against his fellow Christian, Barack Obama, should be seriously scrutinized. And because the basis for his attack on Obama is the speech the Illinois senator gave at our Sojourners/Call to Renewal event in 2006 (for the record, we also had Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republicans Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback speak that year), I have decided to respond to Dobson's attacks. In most every case they are themselves clear distortions of what Obama said in that speech. I was there for the speech; Dobson was not.
I haven't endorsed a candidate, but I do defend them when they are attacked in disingenuous ways, and this is one of those cases. You can read Obama's two-year-old speech, [audio link] which was widely publicized at the time, and you can see that Dobson either didn't understand it or is deliberately distorting it. There are two major problems with Dobson's attack on Obama.
First, Dobson and Minnery's language is simply inappropriate for religious leaders to use in an already divisive political campaign. We can agree or disagree on both biblical and political viewpoints, but our language should be respectful and civil, not attacking motives and beliefs.
Second, and perhaps most important, is the role of religion in politics. Dobson alleges that Obama is saying:"
- SojoNet: Faith, Politics, and Culture
- Jun 26, 2008 5:38am (2 reviews) politics, religion http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=new...
- From the page: "For some time now, there has been plenty of talk among pundits and pollsters that the political divide in this country has fallen sharply along religious lines. Indeed, the single biggest gap in party affiliation among white Americans today is not between men and women, or those who reside in so-called red states and those who reside in blue, but between those who attend church regularly and those who don't.
Conservative leaders, from Falwell and Robertson to Karl Rove and Ralph Reed, have been all too happy to exploit this gap, consistently reminding evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage; school prayer and intelligent design.
Democrats, for the most part, have taken the bait. At best, we may try to avoid the conversation about religious values altogether, fearful of offending anyone and claiming that - regardless of our personal beliefs - constitutional principles tie our hands. At worst, some liberals dismiss religion in the public square as inherently irrational or intolerant, insisting on a caricature of religious Americans that paints them as fanatical, or thinking that the very word "Christian" describes one's political opponents, not people of faith. "
- ABC News: Court Decides Oil Spill Penalty Too Severe
- Jun 25, 2008 7:45pm (1 review) environment, supreme-court http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/sto...
 From the page: An ecosystem was forever altered. We do not know how to clean up oil spills," said Carol Hoover, an activist from Cordova, Alaska. "There is no safe way."
Cindy Shogan of the Alaska Wilderness League said, "I'm ashamed at the Supreme Court, ashamed at this decision, and I'm just shocked that, once again, the oil industry wins."
- Valdez ruling hurts Alaska relationship with Exxon| Top News| Reuters...
- Jun 25, 2008 7:15pm (1 review) supreme-court, enviornment http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/id...
 From the page: ""It's sad to consider that there's probably celebration going on in some industry board rooms right now, while right here in Alaska you're not seeing that celebration," Gov. Sarah Palin told Reuters on Wednesday.
"Exxon will know that we're very disappointed in this ruling. They will know that our commitment is to stringent, responsible oversight of the industry," said Palin during a break in a cabinet meeting on the subject."
I will run out of gas before I ever put a drop of Exxon gasoline in my car. Once again the environment loses to the Bush appointed Supreme Court. How long will his judges plague this country?
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