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July 2007

July 04, 2007

Freedom Means Love

Happy Independence Day everyone! We are lucky, lucky, lucky to live under the freedom that...

July 02, 2007

Blair Gets Bushwhacked

All was good in Tony Blair’s world. Then, out of nowhere, something strange happened on...

June 2007

June 28, 2007

Global Warming Kills

This is blood-boiling stuff. A World Health Organization (WHO) study says that 77,000 people...

June 24, 2007

Tolerance or Mush?

In reading about this Episcopal priest in Seattle who recently announced her conversion to Islam --...

June 22, 2007

Israel: A Land of Competing Realities

Extremists are everywhere. In the past week the world has witnessed the extremism of Hamas...

June 17, 2007

Gary Bauer Still Doesn’t Get It

Gary Bauer wrote a response to the Sojourners faith forum entitled, “The Religious Left Still...

June 09, 2007

McChurch — “God Has Abandoned America Because of Our Celebration of Lesbian Sex”

As for calamities, what God could and should do to His people who are living...

June 09, 2007

“People of the Snowmobile” Bemoan Loss of Moral Values

According to the polling information, the people of America perceive themselves to be awakening to...

June 09, 2007

Questions for Rob Schenck

Rev. Rob Schenck of the National Clergy Council leveled below-the-belt broadsides against the leading Democratic...

June 07, 2007

The Latest: March 2007 Archive

3/31, 8:12p CT: Here's an item I initially was about to ignore, before realizing that's...

June 05, 2007

Tut-Tutting the Growing Faith Debate

There has been some hemming and hawing in the blogosphere over the faith-based forum that...

June 05, 2007

Is it Time to Strip the Word “Marriage” Out of the Civil Code?

Lead by example, yes; lead by self-sacrificing love, yes; lead by apartheid, no! In a...

June 05, 2007

A Groundbreaking Forum on Faith

Sojourner’s presidential forum on faith tonight was truly groundbreaking. We had the top three Democratic...

June 04, 2007

Moral Moments in the Democratic Debate

There was no direct talk of religious faith in last night’s Democratic presidential debate in...

May 2007

May 31, 2007

Rise of the Neo-Evangelical in American Politics

Leadership in the arts, business, medicine, politics and religion comes not from training at Harvard,...

May 30, 2007

McChurch and OPS – “Other People’s Sins”

I am sick to death of this running debate over whether homosexuality is a sin....

May 21, 2007

A New Guard of Evangelical Leaders

The political fissures among evangelicals received high-profile treatment in the New York Times today. The...

May 17, 2007

Bush Won’t Deny Authorizing Hospital Visit

At a press conference today, George W. Bush showed his true colors -- again. This...

May 16, 2007

Death of a Titan: Where Were You When Jerry Falwell Died?

In a world ruled by a sovereign God, who knows but that Jerry Falwell was...

May 14, 2007

A Mother’s Right to Choose

The cult of individuality is an insidious virus that leaves us stranded and alone. So...

May 06, 2007

The Right Story on Democrats and Faith

Finally, the right angle. The Chicago Tribune headline says: “Democrats find religion on campaign...

May 04, 2007

Hillary’s New Gambit

Hillary Clinton has a new strategy for stopping the war: revoking the resolution that authorized President...

May 03, 2007

The Latest: February 2007 Archive

2/27, 3:34p CT: No matter what you think of pre-marital sex, this is insanity. It...

May 01, 2007

George Washington Against “Christian Zionism”

Real patriots, by Washington's reckoning, may well be those people of reason who stand up...

April 2007

April 27, 2007

Flashes of Authenticity in the Democratic Debate

My favorite moments from last night's Democratic debate were the moments of unscripted authenticity. Here...

April 26, 2007

Latinos, Religion, and Politics

A new Pew study suggests that most Latinos believe religion should have a major place...

April 25, 2007

The Folly of the Partial-Birth Obsession

The early headlines referred to celebrations by “anti-abortion activists,” but no one who cares about...

April 20, 2007

Jesus, Howard Dean, and the Easter Bunny

Some evangelicals are claiming that DNC Chair Howard Dean's failure to mention the resurrection of...

April 19, 2007

Is Abortion a “Woman’s Health Issue?”

Are we ever going to get beyond this hypocrisy? You have to help me here....

April 17, 2007

Hillary’s religious? Whodathunkit?

David Brody over at Christian Broadcasting Network has noticed that Hillary Clinton has something to...