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People Completely Forgotten
THIS is injustice. We are too silent on behalf of people who have been pawns for generations.
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Popularity of Mysticism
Who woulda thunk it? This Ross Douthat column in the New York Times reflects on the popularity of so many mystical practices, but it has its downside. We are dabbling in so many things, we are diving into nothing. We are not fully entering into ANY of the practices, so we might think we are mystics, but the proof is…
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Compassion and Conservative Christians
Who knew? Obviously, no one had any idea “conservative” Christians could be compassionate… that is until someone like the New York Time officially recognizes that, hey, conservative Christians actually do some good! Okay, NOW, conservative Christians can be considered as compassionate. (It was like the media “discovering” Pentecostals in 2006, the 100th Anniversary of Azusa Street.) Nicholas Kristof gives a…
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Is the Age of Entitlement Over?
A column by Thomas Friedman thinks so. Friedman is a great observer of American culture. In his view, we truly have reached lean times when residents of a county have to think about paying for a 911 call. They can pay a flat fee per year, or a huge fee per call. So many things we just simply take for…
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Follow up on Mixed Martial Arts…
The other day I linked to a crazy article about MMA and our bloodlust. Here are some reactions to that same NY Times article.
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Marketing and the Church
I get into debates with myself over what is “marketing” for the church. What “counts” vs. what “doesn’t count,” etc. But then I read articles like this one and just get sick. The article begins like this: In the back room of a theater on Beale Street, John Renken, 42, a pastor, recently led a group of young men in…
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Faith in the Public Square
Apparently Brit Hume stepped into a firestorm a week ago on a news show. He recommended that Tiger Woods actually consider Christianity. Since that time, Hume has apparently been vilified all over the media and blogososphere. This column pointed out some of the fallout, then raised the idea that maybe we should, indeed, talk about faith. One of the main…
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Does Capitalism Do Better With an Enemy?
There is a new book, among many to come, discussing the current financial collapse. This paragraph of the review stuck out to me: Once upon a time in America and Britain, he observes, “the jet engine of capitalism was harnessed to the ox cart of social justice, to much bleating from the advocates of pure capitalism, but with the effect…
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Belief as Dementia, Evangelicals as Wimps, and HOW ABOUT THOSE TWINS
Leave it to The New York Times to equate religious belief with mild dementia. Check that. What they are really offended at is the thought of an intellectual having a Christian worldview. This must drive them nuts. We live in a day when David Letterman can confess on air to having multiple affairs with staff women and there isn’t one…
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