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Wednesday October 31, 2007
Categories: Popular CultureUmbert the Unborn
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Categories: FaithThin Places
A new thin place...
There is nothing quite like getting away to a remote part of the Amazon jungle. Add to that the hunt for our fine finned friend, the peacock bass, and you have an amazing trip on your hands...The guide takes you to a perfect fishing hole. Some fish are lost having bent even titanium hooks. But once the hook is set the battle is on. In the case of my 21 pounder, he made a mad dash for cover under some brush. But that never stopped a good guide. He slips into dark water of the Rio Negro and disappears out of sight. Suddenly he emerges from under the water with fish in hand. The fish is weighed, photographed with all, and then returned to fight another day.
Some fish are consumed. Some fishermen are consumed with catching even larger, world record breaking fish. Just a game of deception played with a fish for sport. Thank God for the experience. Thank God He is not playing such games with us. There is no catch and release in the kingdom of heaven.
Thanks Richard and please do send more Thin Places - I'm running low. dkuoblog@mac.com
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Wednesday October 31, 2007
Categories: PoliticsPresident Hillary Clinton
I just had to see what it felt like to type those words - President Hillary Clinton.
It doesn't seem possible that it is a possibility save for one thing - right now it is the most likely of all possible scenarios. And based on tonight's debate performance it is hard to see that changing. Don't take my word on it, take the word of conservative commentator John O'Sullivan over at National Review's "The Corner."
In Need of an Adult Beverage What depresses me about tonight's debate is not merely that Hillary Clinton is the strongest and most adult person on the stage—it's also the possibility that the same thing might at least look true if she were parachuted into the GOP debate.
All obligatory statements aside - it is early, in politics anything can happen, Obama or Edwards may catch fire, frontrunners always stumble, etc. - the current crop of Democrats don't seem capable of either taking her down or lifting people to a vision sufficiently compelling to bump her out of the way.
Barack Obama's "politics of hope" seems to have become the "politics of smacking Hillary." John Edwards is certainly trying to campaign based on a particular vision of helping the little guy. And he may be the most likely long-term foil to Sen. Clinton. But she is looking a whole lot like the New England Patriots right now - built to win.
Filed Under: Barack Obama, casting stones, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
Categories: Popular CultureLove the Internet, just don't LOVE the Internet?
A new poll from Zogby provides interesting insights into our use of and feelings towards, the Internet.
The Zogby/463 Internet Attitudes poll found that 24% of Americans said the Internet could serve as a replacement for a significant other. Not surprisingly, the percentage was highest among singles, of which 31% said it could be a substitute. There was no difference among males and females but there was a split based on political ideology. Thirty-one percent of those who called themselves “progressives” were open-minded to the Internet serving as a surrogate significant other while only 18% of those who consider themselves “very conservative” would consider it a substitute.
But wait, there's more.
Most Americans don’t think the Internet has had an effect on their spirituality. Ten percent said it made them closer to God, while 6% percent said it made them more distant. Those who call themselves “Born Again” were the most likely to feel it affected them spiritually. Twenty percent of Born Agains said it made them closer while 11% said it made them more distant from God.
And my favorite, of course:
Despite the hype surrounding the launch of the iPhone and the adoration that its biggest fans hold for the device, people still find other people more attractive. When asked who or what is sexier, the vast majority of Americans don’t think the Apple’s phone gets their blood flowing like Halle Berry, Scarlett Johansson, or Patrick Dempsey does. In the face-off of good-looking stars versus smart-phone, Berry dropped the most jaws with 27 percent of the responses. Johansson got 17% and Dempsey 14 percent. The iPhone shared a spot with Derek Jeter at 6%. It hasn’t been a good year for the Yankees. (31% were too flummoxed to answer.) Johansson was the favorite of those age 18 to24 (30% ), but Berry was selected the most by every other age group.
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
Categories: ScienceHIV origins
I missed this yesterday and perhaps everyone has already seen it, but this made my jaw drop for several reasons. First, that scientists were able to put the pieces together to make this conclusion. That is just staggering to me. Second, so much horror came from that single source is more than I can comprehend. I've known, as we all have, about a 'patient zero' but somehow this news makes it that much more... horrifying.
The AIDS virus invaded the United States in about 1969 from Haiti, carried most likely by a single infected immigrant who set the stage for it to sweep the world in a tragic epidemic, scientists said on Monday.Michael Worobey, a University of Arizona evolutionary biologist, said the 1969 U.S. entry date is earlier than some experts had believed.
The timeline laid out in the study led by Worobey indicates that HIV infections were occurring in the United States for roughly 12 years before AIDS was first recognized by scientists as a disease in 1981. Many people had died by that point.
"It is somehow chilling to know it was probably circulating for so long under our noses," Worobey said in a telephone interview.
The researchers conducted a genetic analysis of stored blood samples from early AIDS patients to determine when the human immunodeficiency virus first entered the United States.
They found that HIV was brought to Haiti by an infected person from central Africa in about 1966, which matches earlier estimates, and then came to the United States in about 1969.
The researchers think an unknown single infected Haitian immigrant arrived in a large city like Miami or New York, and the virus circulated for years -- first in the U.S. population and then to other nations.
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
Categories: Faith, Popular CultureGod and sports, pt. 2
Noted columnist EJ Dionne weighs in on sports and politics and faith and Giuliani. It must be noted here that Mr. Dionne is a passionate member of the Red Sox Nation, deliriously happy at a second World Series title in...
Filed Under: Boston Red Sox, EJ Dionne, George Fletcher, loyalty, New York Yankees, Rudy Giuliani
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
Categories: Popular CulturePeanut butter... by jelly
This is funny - a mock wikipedia entry about peanut butter written by jelly. Is there any end to American creativity? My favorite part: By 1904 people everywhere were tainting perfectly delicious Jelly sandwiches by smearing on greasy peanut butter....
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
Categories: Faith"the one true gift"
From my friends at Providence Ministries... read on here. It doesn't look like it on Good Friday, but when Easter finally arrives it will be known that every single loving word and gesture done toward "the least of these" was...
Filed Under: Haiti, poverty, suffering
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
Categories: Faith, PoliticsEvangelical principles?
Over at the Evangelical Outpost, Joe Carter confronts the David Kirkpatrick article on the 'evangelical crackup' by saying it "is mostly a rehash of the dominant media perspective on evangelicals and politics, though it is noteworthy for Kirkpatrick's style of...
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
Categories: Faith, Popular CultureWatching sports to God's glory?
Ok, watching sports can be a lot of fun - particularly when the Patriots or Yankees are losing or the Steelers or Mets are winning. But here is someone who is thinking long and hard - too long and too...
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Monday October 29, 2007
Categories: Faith, PoliticsAn apology
Richard Land's most important assertion in his post is correct. The language I used in my post on Mike Huckabee and evangelical leaders was, "unchristian, harsh and hostile." While I stand by the substance of what I wrote - that...
Monday October 29, 2007
Categories: Faith"The Opiate of the Morally Corrupt"
Bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza has a new book out - What’s So Great About Christianity. It has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with defending the Christian faith against the recent attacks of men like Sam Harris...
Monday October 29, 2007
Categories: FaithD'Souza and Hitchens... on God?
Last week Dinesh debated Christopher Hitchens. Here is a link to the full debate. Below is an excerpt:...
Monday October 29, 2007
Categories: Faith, Popular CulturePraying for (and writing to) Britney
A church in Kentucky isn't preaching to Britney, they are praying for her and writing to her: "Take a few minutes and write a note to Britney Spears," [Southland Christian Church Pastor Jon] Weese said. "No preaching. No criticizing. Just...
Monday October 29, 2007
Categories: Faith, Politics"The Evangelical Crackup", pt. 2
Three thoughts on the NYT piece entitled "The Evangelical Crackup". 1. The evangelical political leadership we've known for the past 20 years is headed out. The founding generation of leaders like Falwell and Dobson, who first guided evangelicals into Republican...
Sunday October 28, 2007
Categories: Faith, Politics"The Evangelical Crackup"
Long and brilliant piece in today's NYT Magazine on the cracking up of the evangelical political world. I'll write more later but here is the piece's core: Just three years ago, the leaders of the conservative Christian political movement could...
Saturday October 27, 2007
Categories: Social JusticeAnne Rice on New Orleans, still right
I came across this piece that famed novelist Anne Rice wrote as New Orleans sank. It is as true today as it was two years ago. But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed...
Saturday October 27, 2007
Categories: NewsNew Orleans and Malibu and Ground Zero
There is something about those awful California fires and our government's response and President Bush's response that is bugging me. I've isolated the problem. It is two words long. New Orleans. Our government's response to the fires has been basically...
Friday October 26, 2007
Categories: Faith, NewsWhat Christians should be combatting
For all the talk about taxes and budgets and Supreme Court justices and gay marriage, here is something that Christians should be uniquely qualified to address - a ridiculously over-stressed nation. Forty-eight percent of Americans say they're more stressed now...
Friday October 26, 2007
Random Friday question
Ok, another random friday question: What is a cause for which you would be willing to give your life?...
Friday October 26, 2007
Categories: Popular CultureHonoring the World Series
...see if prayer helps you win... Play Games at AddictingGames...
Friday October 26, 2007
Categories: Popular CultureDoes Jesus want the Rockies to lose?
The Colorado Rockies - the team losing 0-2 in the World Series - have garnered some attention for their faith-based baseball. My friend Patton Dodd, loyal member of the Red Sox Nation (no matter what he might say) even wrote...
Friday October 26, 2007
Categories: PoliticsTerrified of Huckabee
Wow, Mike Huckabee does have the front runners very, very nervous. Check out this piece in the WSJ by conservative (very, very economically conservative) John Fund hacking away at Huckabee as a conservative Bill Clinton. ...I also know he is...
Friday October 26, 2007
Categories: PoliticsStumbling across wisdom
I just discovered a brilliant oped - unfortunately I am a little more than five years late. In January 2002, former Bush (the first) and Reagan (the only) aide, James Pinkerton wrote a piece criticizing George W. Bush after his...
Thursday October 25, 2007
Categories: Faith, Popular CultureAwe, pt. 3
Here are more of Paul Potts' performances: Semi-final: Final: Results: Today Show:...
Thursday October 25, 2007
Categories: FaithAwe, pt. 2
From my friend Pia who sent along Awe and watched the GodTube video. There is something that links the two videos you posted - vulnerability redeemed. Maybe it is this that makes our breath catch in our throat--seeing the manifestation...
Thursday October 25, 2007
Categories: FamilyDangerous daughters
My fiendish older daughters showed this to me last night. I'm such a sucker for things like this. They knew that. I'll have to ground them later. Right now I have to play some more. Helicopter Game...
Thursday October 25, 2007
Categories: Popular CultureSounds like something Jesus would say...
Ever hear of "no impact man"? Short, short, short version - he and his family live in NYC and aren't using electricity or any other modern convenience. He has a blog. Today he had this to say and it was...
Thursday October 25, 2007
Categories: PoliticsChristian Coalition v. Values Voter Summit
Quite a lot has been made of last weekend's "Values Voter Summit". It was the largest DC gathering of Christian conservatives since the late 90s. All the major Republican presidential candidates attended. The media was all over it. Many are...
Thursday October 25, 2007
Categories: FamilyParental guilt
We are actively deceiving our two-year-old daughter and my guilt is getting the best of me. The area of deception centers around food - specifically on "ice cream." Last night I heard her saying "green ice cream, I want green...
Thursday October 25, 2007
Categories: FaithWhat's on GodTube
3.2 million hits, 2700 comments: ...Jesus' story will be told and retold and retold in every form for every age to come....
Wednesday October 24, 2007
Categories: Faith, Popular CultureAwe
More than anything anyone has written or said in recent memory, here is proof of God. No accident can explain this wonder or this beauty....
Wednesday October 24, 2007
Categories: PoliticsDems, don't count your votes...
Are Democrats, buoyed by President Bush's historically low approval ratings, counting their votes before they are cast? There is increasing evidence they might be: Some Republicans also drew confidence from Saturday's election of Republican U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal as governor...
Wednesday October 24, 2007
Categories: FaithWhat Muslims love about Jesus
Between 1991 and 2007, Fuller Theological Seminary's School on Intercultural Studies assembled a report on what drew Muslim converts to Christianity. The study of 750 people doesn't claim scientific precision, but rather, a glimpse into what makes Jesus attractive to...
Wednesday October 24, 2007
Categories: FaithObama's huge test
Sen. Barack Obama is to embark on a gospel music tour of South Carolina. He won't be singing and so he is bringing in some help. This is where things get interesting. One of the musicians on the tour, Grammy...
Tuesday October 23, 2007
Categories: FaithGreat quote
"My commitment to the Kingdom of God has to be greater than my commitment to the Declaration of Independence." Greg Boyd Woodland Hills Church St. Paul, MN Boyd, in a sermon called "revolting beauty", talking about how the radical...
Tuesday October 23, 2007
Categories: Faith, PoliticsDefending the Values Summit agenda
My rant against the Values Voter Summit Straw Poll "agenda" question encouraged Donny to write defending it: Christians have been REALLY helping the poor since Jesus gave Peter the keys. It is done by changing the immoral into morally sound...
Tuesday October 23, 2007
Categories: PoliticsAmy Sullivan's Huckabee exploration
Amy Sullivan, Time's brilliant new political editor, writes the definitive piece on Mike Huckabee and what his tremendous weekend performance at the Values Voter Summit means to him and the rest of the Republican field. Never count out a man...
Tuesday October 23, 2007
Categories: ScienceGlobal warming hysteria?
In today's Wall Street Journal, a fascinating piece by a long-time, pro-environment scientist who does not deny the reality of global warming but rather tries to put in perspective... in hopes that we don't forget to take care of things...
Tuesday October 23, 2007
Categories: Faith, PoliticsAmerica's wealth from God or...
What an extraordinary exchange about my furious post on the Values Voter Summit "agenda". Thanks to everyone for both posted comments and private emails. Here are just two: Eleanor: We need to start with the vision. When you start with...
Tuesday October 23, 2007
Categories: FaithSmart Christians
An important point from Aquaman. I know, hard to believe Aquaman could make profound points But since we don't discriminate against anyone on this blog: It's my privilege to worship each Sunday with a renowned scientist who teaches at...
Monday October 22, 2007
Categories: Faith, Popular CultureAnd Dumbledore
And so Albus Dumbledore is gay. As most of our solar system has now heard, Mr. Dumbledore was outed by author J.K. Rowling. No one has heard anything from Mr. Dumbledore. That is probably because he is a fictional character....
Monday October 22, 2007
Categories: Faith, ScienceStephen Hawking and God
An interesting article in Christianity Today on famed physicist Stephen Hawking and his dance with God. Hawking is a major public intellectual, a leading scientist with a flair for popular exposition and a platform from which to explain science to...
Monday October 22, 2007
Categories: Faith, PoliticsRudy's new tack
Family Research Council's chief, Tony Perkins, is saying Rudy Giuliani told him: "if the Defense of Marriage Act appeared to be failing or if multiple states began to legalize same-sex marriages, then he would support the constitutional amendment." Given Giuliani's...
Monday October 22, 2007
Categories: Faith, PoliticsHuckabee rising
Andrew Sullivan has a terrific recap of the Values Voter straw poll showing that the true winner was Mike Huckabee. It makes sense. Now that Brownback is gone, his supporters are most likely to go with his ideological and theological...
Sunday October 21, 2007
Categories: Popular CultureThe Teacher
A beautiful tribute to former Steelers head coach Chuck Noll - winner of four Super Bowls. No, he's not dead, but the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is doing a history of the Steelers in their 75th year and the tribute is just...
Sunday October 21, 2007
Categories: PoliticsChristian conservative confusion
Mitt Romney won the straw poll conducted at Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit with 28 percent of the 5,776 votes cast, just 30 votes ahead of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Rudy Giuliani got 2% - or 107 -...
Saturday October 20, 2007
Categories: PoliticsValues Voter Summit Straw Poll
Just in case there was ANY doubt about how little Christian conservative leaders care about the poor, here is their list of big issues on their presidential straw poll being taking this weekend: 3. Please indicate which issue is the...
Saturday October 20, 2007
Categories: PoliticsGiuliani at "Values Voter Summit"
Leaving aside the surreal and throughly un-Biblical mixing of Jesus and politics at the Values Voter Summit - replete with worship leader Ron Freeman jazzing up the worship hymn with "We’ve got the right Senate and the Congress!” Some thoughts...
Saturday October 20, 2007
Categories: FaithLearning forgiveness
This is forgiveness. Thanks Erica for sending....
Friday October 19, 2007
Categories: PoliticsGood for Mitt Romney
Today at the Family Research Council's "Values Voter Summit", Mitt Romney said this: Bill Cosby related that in some inner cities: "There are whole blocks with scarcely a married couple, whole blocks without responsible males to watch out for wayward...
Friday October 19, 2007
Categories: Church, Evangelicalism, PoliticsAn ORU grad on "ORU-gate"
This post comes from Ian Spier, an ORU graduate: The ORU scandal has many an alumni concerned--concerned that a university with already questionable credibility has now lost whatever shred of it remained, and concerned, as a result, that their degree...
Friday October 19, 2007
Categories: FaithThin Places
This moves me to no end... and I'm not sure why. Thank you HAK....
Friday October 19, 2007
Categories: Faith, PoliticsWhat Ralph Reed is thinking...
I ran into Ralph at a conference last week after not seeing him for a long time. He agreed to a quick interview: Should we just hand the keys to whichever Democrat wins the nomination? It sure seems like the...
Friday October 19, 2007
Categories: EvangelicalismEvangelicals fearing evangelicals
A recent meeting of leading evangelical leaders issued a statement about evangelicalism that read, in part: “We have become deeply concerned about some movements within traditional evangelicalism that seem to be diminishing the church’s life and leading us away from...
Friday October 19, 2007
Categories: EvangelicalismEvangelicals fearing evangelicals
A recent meeting of leading evangelical leaders issued a statement about evangelicalism that read, in part: “We have become deeply concerned about some movements within traditional evangelicalism that seem to be diminishing the church’s life and leading us away from...
Thursday October 18, 2007
Categories: Popular CultureU2 Challenge
Can anyone name everyone in this video? Thanks to Amy for suggesting. We were on the same wavelength today because I've been sending it around... I think it is the most wonderful video ever....
Thursday October 18, 2007
Categories: FaithPrayer, again
I watched Evan Almighty last night. I am on day four of chemo and so my views could be way warped but I really liked it. Of course the fact that I misted up at one point would suggest it...
Thursday October 18, 2007
Categories: Popular CultureTop five U2 songs...
I think this is the definitive list... my wife disagrees: 5. Zoo Station - Probably just because Livvy and I dance around the house whenever it comes on 4. Acrobat - Maybe it is just because it the first song...
Thursday October 18, 2007
Categories: PoliticsAmerica's heartlessness?
Great journalism: In December, the United Nations took up a resolution calling for the abolition of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for children and young teenagers. The vote was 185 to 1, with the United States the lone...
Thursday October 18, 2007
Categories: Faith, Popular CultureFaith-based baseball
Everyone in the sports world is trying to explain the remarkable rise of the Colorado Rockies. The team was won 21 of its last 22 games and is 7-0 in the playoffs. This would be big news no matter which...
Wednesday October 17, 2007
Categories: FaithKurt Warner, Pt. 3
As Larry Parker notes, the news out of Arizona is that Kurt Warner's injury is less serious than feared and that means he might actually play on Sunday (my fantasy football team will be pleased although I didn't actually pray...
Wednesday October 17, 2007
Richard Roberts taking a leave at ORU
All the signs of unraveling scandal can be found at ORU where Richard Roberts has now asked his hand-picked Board of Regents to take a leave of absence. At a school where Roberts' wife is seriously called "the first lady"...
Wednesday October 17, 2007
Categories: Faith, PoliticsRomney's evangelical opponents
Those evangelicals opposing Mitt Romney on spiritual grounds are becoming more direct in their opposition. Concerned evangelicals oppose the belief that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s theological differences are less important than his seemingly shared conservative social values. They also...
Wednesday October 17, 2007
Categories: FaithTempting Faith
The paperback version of my book is now out. A lot has been said and written about it - mostly from people who haven't ever read it. That has been a challenge because the book is not fundamentally a White...
Wednesday October 17, 2007
Categories: Faith, Social JusticeOur world, like it or not
From my friend Jen's blog about her time in Haiti... She has managed to put words to something too awful for words... This was one of those days that just makes you wonder what the heck you can even do...
Wednesday October 17, 2007
Categories: Popular CultureExploit the Beatles...and U2
A great post on the commercial (literally) exploitation of the Beatles music... what got me is the horrifying thought that one day this could happen to U2's music... Perhaps my fondness for the Beatles is slipping into dogmatic obsession, but...
Wednesday October 17, 2007
Categories: Church, Faith, Popular CultureTyler Perry's faith-based films
When Tyler Perry's new movie buried the new George Clooney flick and the new Cate Blanchett and Mark Wahlberg films as well, a lot of people began to ask why. USA Today has a succinct answer: Perry has managed to...
Wednesday October 17, 2007
Categories: FaithThin Places
Here is an unusual thin place - or perhaps there are no unusual thin places: Charlottesville, Virginia 9:20pm, September 2007 I'll admit this is a bit silly. But sitting as I was on a bench outside an ice cream parlor,...
Tuesday October 16, 2007
Categories: PoliticsObama altar calls?
This is getting ridiculous: The invitation appeared one Sunday in Joanna Chase's church bulletin: Come to a "faith forum" and join a conversation about the intersection of religion and politics. Living in New Hampshire, Chase is accustomed to pitches from...
Tuesday October 16, 2007
Categories: Faith, PoliticsSen. Obama's increasing faith
Sen. Obama's faith-based politics seem to be intensifying: Speaking before religious leaders and others at what he called an "interfaith forum on climate change," the Illinois senator said God has entrusted humans with the responsibility of caring for the earth,...
Tuesday October 16, 2007
Categories: FaithKurt Warner's prayers, pt. 2
Two different points made on my first Warner post - PatientWitness writes: Ironically enough, I think that if God had miraculously cured the elbow injury of a football player after not healing young Mitch last month, I might have ceased...
Tuesday October 16, 2007
Categories: FaithJohn Paul II, 2?
Is this a picture of Pope John Paul II appearing in a fire in Poland at a cerermony marking the second anniversary of his death?...
Tuesday October 16, 2007
Categories: Faith, Politics, Popular CultureColbert, pt. 2
A couple of my favorite Colbert moments. ;-)...
Monday October 15, 2007
Categories: Popular CultureStephen Colbert, columnist
Stephen Colbert took over Maureen Dowd's column in yesterday's NYT... I’d like to thank Maureen Dowd for permitting/begging me to write her column today. As I type this, she’s watching from an overstuffed divan, petting her prize Abyssinian and sipping...
Monday October 15, 2007
Categories: Popular CultureThe penguin returns
The penguin (and the abominable snowman) are back. As with their original appearance last fall, I want to say again that I do not endorse abominable snowmen smacking penguins and think this is just an artistic metaphor showing something...and is...
Monday October 15, 2007
Categories: Faith, Popular CultureKurt Warner's prayers
Former NFL MVP and Arizona Cardinals QB, Kurt Warner tore ligaments in his left (non-throwing) elbow yesterday during a game. Last night he apparently sent out an email to family and friends saying he expected God would miraculously cure him...
Monday October 15, 2007
Categories: Faith, PoliticsHuckabee and the Bush backlash
In yet another article wondering why Mike Huckabee isn't the Christian right's darling, there is a hint as to the real answer. Christian conservative leader, Mark DeMoss, who is helping Romney recently wrote to fellow activists: “If I believed similar...
Monday October 15, 2007
Categories: Faith, GovernmentErik Prince and Blackwater
An intense article about Blackwater and its founder Erik Prince in the newly-remodeled version of Newsweek. Prince's casual mingling of his Christian faith with his "private security firm" has always struck me as just a little bit odd. I try...
Monday October 15, 2007
Categories: Faith, Poverty"Golden Prisons"
I was talking to my friend Pia last week about poverty. She is an extraordinary woman committed to serving God with mind, heart, and hands. As we talked, she raised a question about the nature of poverty - about what...
Sunday October 14, 2007
Categories: Faith, PoliticsDiIulionism
John DiIulio, famed political scientist, Godfather of the faith-based movement, President Bush's first (and only effective) head of his faith-based initiative, has a new book out. It is entitled Godly Republic and no review I could give it could top...
Saturday October 13, 2007
Categories: Faith, Jesus, PoliticsRed-, blue-, and black-letter Christians
There is a great exchange in Christianity Today about the so-called "red letter Christians" and their political and cultural positioning. Writer Stan Gut