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The Last Text Message
Today is my last day with Beliefnet, and my last day as the author of this blog. The Text Messages archives will remain live at this location, but posting will cease. If that sounds gloomy, it's an accurate reflection of my mind this afternoon. I've chosen to pursue new opportunities, but I'm n
posted 3:47:12pm Feb. 04, 2009 |
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Quitting Church: A Q&A with Julia Duin
Why do people stop going to church? This big question is the subject of Julia Duin's small book, Quitting Church: Why teh Faithful are Fleeing and What To Do About It. Duin is not a disinterested observer of the phenomenon of church-dropping; rather, she's a churchgoer who wants churches to work wel
posted 4:03:51pm Feb. 03, 2009 |
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Rob Stennett vs. Marilynne Robinson
I'm overjoyed that my good friend Rob Stennett has won the Award of Merit from Christianity Today for his novel The Almost True Story of Ryan Fisher. (Here's CT's review of the book.) Stennett's hilarious book is about a real estate agent who joins a suburban church in order to reach the Christian h
posted 2:36:44pm Jan. 30, 2009 |
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What is spiritual restoration?
Slate asked for an essay on Ted Haggard's spiritual restoration. I'm okay with what I came up with for now, but the more I think about it, the more I think we need better thinking on what restoration looks like for very public, outspoken, influential men and women like Haggard:Most people who fail n
posted 9:00:56am Jan. 29, 2009 |
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It's Not TV; it's Ted TV
A blog might not be the best medium for an essay like this. But I want to offer some more considered thoughts on Ted Haggard and his HBO documentary; I hope this performs some kind of service in a story that I hope will end--in its public iteration--very soon. This was written as a stand-alone essay
posted 3:57:44am Jan. 28, 2009 |
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posted November 18, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Let’s just hope the laid off workers feel prop 8 was worth their jobs.
posted November 18, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Personally, I think it’s a shame Focus on the Family did not invest several million more to make sure Proposition 8 passed by a convincing mandate.
posted November 18, 2008 at 10:10 pm
James Dobson is bff with Larry Craig. They share a stall at the airport.
posted November 19, 2008 at 9:12 am
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
posted November 19, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Focus on the Family Action is a fiscally-separate lobbying organization. Its finances are not connected to Focus on the Family, the tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization, and so the two pieces of the story (Focus on the Family Action spends .5 Million lobbying for Prop 8, and Focus on the Family has job cuts) are not directly related.
While the fundraising of FOTF Action almost certainly cut into the fundraising ability of FOTF, the political lobbying entity could not transfer its assets to the ministry, even to save jobs.
posted November 19, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Michael:
Legally, no doubt you’re right.
Morally, the symbolism could not be worse — and dare I say, un-Christian.
posted November 28, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Note to Michael-
The money Focus on the Family spend to pass prop 8 did not come from Focus on the Family Action. It came from Focus on the Family.
I wonder how many starving or dying children could have been saved with that money. FOTF needs to expand their definition of life. As Ron Sider says, life does not start at conception and end at birth. And they need to expand their definition of family to include every person born upon this earth.