Pastor Tim, who are you voting for in the upcoming federal election?

Signed, Weye Bawther

Dear Weye,

I am going to vote for the candidate and/or party that I feel most moved by my Christian convictions to vote for (or perhaps least convicted to not vote for).  I?m not trying to avoid answering your question (as if I were running for office or something).  Rather, as a pastor I feel it is important to not risk alienating people in our church and city who may be of a different political stripe than I am.  After all, the Word of God applies to people of every political slant or lean and therefore as a servant of God I do not want to in anyway compromise others? ability to see me as anything other than that.

In response to the following joke (Telegram Scare):

Schwartz and Feldman, partners in the garment industry, had just suffered through their worst season ever. Eight thousand madras sports coats were hanging on the rack unsold, and bankruptcy was looming closer each day.

Out of the blue, in walked a buyer from Australia. "I say there," he began, "you boys wouldn't happen to have any madras sports coats, would you? I've been looking for them everywhere."

Schwartz said there MIGHT be a few left, and soon a deal was made whereby the eight thousand jackets would be . . .