Travis Johnson gives his congregation a lesson from the great Chinese author Sun Tzu: Sometimes you just have to break things and burn things down to get people where they need to go. Have you ever had someone tell you that you shouldn’t burn bridges? Me too. It is good advice…sometimes. In the case of …
Code Pink Uses Witchcraft to Protest Iraq War
The secularists have done their best to decouple "God and Country" but obviously the anti-war group Code Pink knows better: Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley's controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center. The women's anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and …
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The Chickens Come Home to Roost over Identity Politics
It wasn't supposed to happen this way: On Tuesday night, we mentioned the dustup between two Democratic pundits, Ms. Brazile and Mr. Begala, who engaged in a prime-time debate about the coalitions being built by Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Begala, a Clinton supporter, said the party could not win in November with just …
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“Evangelicals are Being Shunned”
The new Lord Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is spot on with this one: In an interview with ReligiousIntelligence.com, he said that the good work done by many Christian and evangelical groups is often just ignored and derided. “I think there is a culture now in our society where if something is even vaguely Christian, …
Protestant or Catholic: Choose Ye This Day, Anglicans
The Vatican is trying to force Anglicans' hand on the subject of which way they need to go: The Vatican has said that the time has come for the Anglican Church to choose between Protestantism and the ancient churches of Rome and Orthodoxy. Speaking on the day that the Archbishop of Canterbury met Benedict XVI …
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When people come forward in his church to accept Jesus as their savior, I don’t say: ‘Do you have papers?’
Should we? It's a good question in Pentecostal churches where Hispanic congregations are growing and voting: Gonzalez and other Hispanic pastors across the country seized on the debate to come together as a political force gaining momentum. Hispanic Pentecostals, some experts say, can become an important swing vote in the 2008 elections in key demographic …
South Korea: The Occasional Cloud Won’t Hurt
I was amused when Sunny Lee made the following statement about South Korea's most Christian president, Lee Myung-bak: South Korea's Sunshine policy towards the North has been in a virtual coma for the two months since the inauguration of conservative Lee Myung-bak asof the South. Lee wants to act tough and teach Pyongyang a lesson …
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Can Islam be Changed?
Evidently Spengler doesn't think so: How, then, should one make sense of the joint statement signed April 30 between the Vatican and a group of visiting Iranian clerics, attesting to the benefits of reason? According the May 1 L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI and the Iranians agreed that "Faith and reason do not contradict each …
Expelled, the Movie, Enjoined. Imagine It!
The news that Yoko Ono et. al. have filed suit to enjoin Ben Stein's movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (documented here and here) is a battle fought on two levels. First: Ben Stein is obviously attacking the ideological content of the song, and by extension not only those who agree with it but also those …
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The Strange Position of Carl Hiaasen
It's hard to know where to begin in responding to Carl Hiaasen's latest rant in the Miami Herald White politicos have their own pulpit gasbags, but let me begin by making a few observations: Jeremiah Wright has certainly prospered financially off of his ministry activities, as his US$10,000,000 house will attest. (And he's done it …
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