Added July 16th, 2009:
    Andrew Palm was one of my fellow columnists, and also had some involvement with me in some of my other other activities, such as being Covenant Group leaders at about the same time, and also living in Goodwin Hall. His articles were somewhat controversial at times because he's fairly conservative in his theological leanings. I'm also most likely understating. He called people out and people don't like being called out. As for my viewpoint on him, I maintained that while I didn't agree with everything he said, he was very obviously extremely based in the Bible and lived according to what he was saying. I've heard he's become a pastor, which doesn't really surprise me in the least.

    When I went to Point Loma, it seemed like I was one of the very few liberals there. My own political views are somewhat complex. I tend to be somewhat conservative on what I refer to as the "moral" issues, but in terms of economic policy, I favor aid for people unable to work, or who have to raise children without means. I see these things as investments. As such, I was seemingly one of the few people on campus who generally had no problem with President Clinton, even though I did disapprove of his moral choices.

    When I came up with the concept of Point/Counterpoint (a concept I found out later that I actually RE-invented, and one that was very controversial in its prior existence. I was proud of myself.), it included a word limit for the original articles. Andrew, God bless him, must have missed that minor point because as you can tell, his contributions to this article are significantly longer than mine, which was a point brought up both in the paper's staff meeting, and by people who came up and talked to me about the article. And it didn't really work as a Point/Counterpoint article as well as I had hoped because Andrew and I both had to admit we were discussing slightly different topics, and since the article was my idea, that falls on me.

    The thing that feels kind of weird these days, is that since college, I've come view myself much more of a moderate. The moral issues I mention above seem to be pushed farther and farther away from the teachings of the Bible by the left. And certain of my fellow students are now far to the left of me. There are some far to the right as well, but I find it weird that I've gone from the edge to the middle while not moving much at all.

    Even without the scandal involved with Clinton, we seem to be going into the same kind of loop with President Obama's perception and approval amongst Christians. So it'll be interesting to see