Having noted the widely divergent responses (both Adventist and non-Adventist) to Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling on California's Proposition 8, I decided to read for myself what he’d said. So for a Saturday night’s entertainment recently, I read through all 136 pages of the judge's opinion, word for word.

I am happy to see my friend Peter Laarman holding forth in this informed discussion with David Gushee on the futures of the evangelical and mainline Christian movements.

I realized the Christ I’ve given my life to follow didn’t live the way I do. I tend to follow rules and my church’s tradition. Jesus lived out of his heart and radically expanded his community through Love. Hated races? He placed them inside his circle of Love. Tax collectors? In. Rich? Welcomed. Prostitutes? In. Poor? Absolutely in.

I was waiting last Thursday for somebody in the corporate media to point out the sweet irony in two simultaneous announcements: 1. The stated commitment of the G-20 countries to a regime of greater regulation of private financial colossi, and 2. The news out of Washington that same day that our own Financial Accounting Standards Board will now deregulate by abandoning the “mark to market” rule that currently requires our big banks to be honest about their bad assets.

From Sojourners' Magazine, here's Rev Richard Twiss, Terry Leblanc and Raymond Aldred, Ph.D. talking about the revival of indigenous theology in North America.

Their discussion of Christianity (informed by Ricoeur and Gadamer) from their Native American perspective raises some significant questions about how we approach the early chapters in Genesis, the environment and acts of charity. These theologians reveal how context and all our particularities of identity can create deeper meaning for Christians.