THE WILSONS SPEAK!
Jonathan Wilson, pastor of Cuyler Covenant Church in Chicago, writes about his disappointment with the Bush administration, the UN, and the Arab world in a new essay just posted on the Partial Observer. "As an American, I am feeling the acute paradox of living with a government that has pursued a thoroughly unjustified unilateralism since coming into office, and is now feeling the back-lash on an issue in which the American position is both legally and morally justified."

(Jonathan's article on Hawks, Doves, and Owls is also worth a look.)

In the meantime, Jonathan's father, Everett, pastor of Prairie Lake Evangelical Covenant Church in Chetek, Wisconsin, (a.k.a. Barnabas) writes in his Curmudgeonry column about the moment of humiliation. "To take your gun to town and lose is to lose everything. But winners may also lose big."

Both Wilsons are independent thinkers that don't fit very tightly into anyone's boxes. And no, they don't always agree with each other.