Crunchy Cons I am one Great New Book and New Blog
If you read this website in any depth you will discover that I am a conservative, but not a conservative in the traditional manner. For one thing, I think Hillary Clinton was right, it does take a village (but I am not sure that village should be led by Big Uncle Sam). Also, like Jedadiah Purdy points out in his book, For Common Things, the value of things is not simply their economic value. When conservative get greedy, I always walk out of the room.
For a long time, I had noticed that more and more people I talked to thought the way Tanya and I did. They were essentially conservative people who because they saw the conservative movement as individualistic, consumerist, and aesthetically handicapped, had rejected conservatism. Many of them ended up in the Democratic Party, even though there was not one thing the Democrats stood for they could agree with in the hearts.
Hey, I am a deeply evangelical Christian, be it of a Catholic/Mainline variety (though I have my seven years in a non-denominational megachurch to validate my standing). But, that helped lead me and my wife to vegetarianism and a preference for the tastiness of organic. While we love our house and our privacy, we have an open door policy and invite as many people in the world into it as we can. While we live in a sort of mini-suburb (an older one), we chose the area because there is local grocery store, library, running trail, sidewalks and the like to help create community.
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