Post-Election Lessons for Liberal Evangelicals
I walk down my front stairs, do some quick stretches, and then start my warm-up walk. Over the last few months this has been my opportunity to scroll through my…
Evangelicals, Palin and Politics
With the 2008 election just around the corner Evangelicals are wrestling with many issues, but the very fact that we are wrestling with issues and thinking seriously about candidates is…
Bill Maher’s Religulous: I can’t get over it.
Just saw Religulous... ok, I admit that I laughed. To say otherwise would be like Clinton claiming to have smoked it but not inhaled. I laughed a bunch because frankly…
Horse Manure, Ice Cream, and Pulpit Endorsements
Matthew 7: 9-11 "Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If…
Oddity of the Month: Conservative Evangelicals Want Catholic Politicians to be More Catholic
Senator and current VP nominee Joseph Biden is supposed to be helping Senator and Presidential nominee Barack Obama with the Catholic vote, except Biden has a Catholic problem. Speaker Nancy…
“Energize the Base?” Why not call it what it is…appeasement.
When the original Peter, Paul and Mary and the rest of the gang gathered in Jerusalem sometime in the decades immediately following the ministry of Jesus Christ we know that…
No “Red Meat” for Moderates
I watched Teddy and Hillary, Bill and Joe, and even Barack and Michelle and while I liked much of what I heard and was impressed with the production values and…
The Anglican “Disneyfication” of Moderation
The last several weeks have been - well - disheartening if you are paying much attention to what is going on in the World Anglican Communion and their Lambeth Conference.…
Does God Take Summer Vacation?
Maybe it's not a good policy to make light of hell, but it seems plausible that the inspiration for Jonathan Edwards' sermon, "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God"…
Jesus of Nazareth, Feeder of the 5000 and Mega-Church Leader
In a ceremony calculated to gain maximum exposure in both the local, national, and imperial press Jesus of Nazareth publicly endorsed Gaius Aelius Agrippa in his run for Provincial Quaestor.…