If you haven't yet seen the film "Amazing Grace" you should.

It is well done on many levels, but what struck me most vividly is its portrayal of a man wrestling with his faith/personal destiny.

We live in an era where people, especially politicians, use their "faith" as an ornament to get themselves elected or rewarded some other way.

Wilberforce dedicated his life to the abolition of slavery - with no personal reward for himself - in fact he faced years of ridicule and hostility for advocating what he just knew in his gut was right.

Anyone else nauseated by our current landscape of anemic, self-serving so-called "Christians"?

Here's a relevant verse from the Bible. Most people assume that the great sin of Sodom was homosexuality.

Ezekiel 16:49 gives a fuller picture - "Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."

Don't expect to hear a sermon on that verse on your local corporately compromised "Christian" radio station or mega church...