Spent the week updating more of the position papers [see: “Life Issues”], readying for our next tour, and preparing for a talk I gave tonight at Cleveland’s Whitman House. The monthly event is called: “Soup and Substance.” And tonight I was, theoretically, the “substance.” (Although my wife Liz might contend that at times.)… For part of the presentation, I played an excerpt from a radio show I’d done on a 50,000 watt station in Columbus, Ohio. Talk show host Carla Wren had asked me my take on the economy. I said we had the biggest gross national product of any country in the history of the world — yet we have a 60% divorce rate, with the nuclear family being blown apart. We have kids sleeping on inner city streets. And the violence continues to mount, all over. I continued that, perhaps, our priorities are a bit skewed. I added we propose a 20 to 30 hour work week, so there is more time for faith, for relationship building in families, for community volunteering… Ms. Wren smiled and said: “I’m for that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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