I’m already feeling the end of the 2008 campaign.
I miss it.

I love the debate,
the focus on issues of substance,
the spike in emotional energy,
the writings of Christians about socialism and the NT, and the wondering if Christians understand either.

Here’s an idea: Let’s start engaging in debate about 2012. Will Joe the Plumber run for president?

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I’m wondering how many readers of “Into the Mystic” intellectually affirm (vs. believe in) a possibility of the existence of Big Foot.

photo: me and lucas on a wildlife hunt. could bigfoot be back in the shadows somewhere?

Long time readers will not be surprised by this inquiry. Having experienced paranormal activity including precognition and [...]

So far, the series has not captivated me. How about you?

The idea of fringe science has always jazzed me so I want it to work, but nothing yet.

See you in the mystic…

 I received a question from a friend in the Philippines. I’ve paraphrased his question below.

Alex,

Last week, I had a conversation with someone. While we were talking, he asked me if my insight was biblical.

I asked him, why does my insight have to be biblical? Isn’t that being fundamentalist?

Alex McManus
Founder, International Mentoring Network
Creator of Voxtropolis and the Culture Pubs
Part of the IMN Global Network

Washington Mutual Bank failed this week. This is the largest bank failure in US history.

A few years ago I suggested that postmodernism was on it’s last leg and projected that by 2020 it would be “history,” as they say.

The past is closed. It cannot be changed. The future, on the other hand, is open. It hasn’t been settled yet. In fact, there is no such thing as “the future.” There are only the futures (plural).

21st century planet Earth is engaged in a global conversation with seven participants plus. Imagine this global conversation like you would seven people seated around a dinner table. There is the Christian, the Secularist, the Jew, the Muslim, the Buddhist, the Primalist/Animist, the Communist.

I talked to a man who cheated on his wife. In his mind what he did was natural. He did nothing more than any animal in the wild would do, he explained to me.

Photo: Performers Jason Sharp and Ansus Berkana with part of the Crew from Thousand Oaks, California at Voxtropolis 2008
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