Muhammad 'Abd Al-Muttalib Al-Houni has hit up one something that most people don't think about in the whole debate about whether Shari'a should be allowed in the UK (or anywhere else in the West) or not: The concept of citizenship in Europe will change. There will be [different] classes of citizenship and of citizens, with …
Was Benedict’s Baptism of a Muslim Convert a Good Idea?
Pope Benedict XVI's rather spectacular baptism of a Muslim convert has generated a good deal of discussion amongst Christians and Muslims alike. Rather than adding unnecessary heat to the subject, I commend the dialogue between Abu Daoud and Sister Sherry--Anglican and Roman Catholic respectively working in the Middle East--on this subject. On this, I am …
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Resurrection Power
Rising from the dead was not an ordinary occurrence before or during Jesus time on the earth; it is still not. In order to accomplish such a thing, it takes power, lots of it. Jesus Christ was able to rise from the dead because, being God, he had the power within him to do so. …
Richard Russell and Tribal Wisdom
Some good stuff to think about from 1964, during the Vietnam era: Redolent of the late 1940's, (U.S. Ambassador) Henry Cabot Lodge cabled Washington that South Vietnam might have to be run by a U.S. "High Commissioner," having himself in mind. Georgia's Richard Russell was still chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and had …
Rowan Williams: Old Earth Creationists Still Hung Out to Dry
It seems that the Archbishop of Canterbury has a talent for leaving people who just might help solve problems hanging out to dry, as he blithely ignores the existence of "old earth creationism" in the debate over evolution: Dr Rowan Williams, said "Neo Darwinism and Creationist science deserve each other. Creationism is a version of …
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The Letter I’d Write if I Were an Anglican Primate
Lisa Severine Noland's article about the perils of going to Lambeth this summer has galvanised me to draft the letter I'd write if I were an Anglican primate in a predominantly "reasserter" province: Esteemed ++Rowan Williams! It is with the deepest regret that I find myself compelled to write this letter to you. At this …
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The Speech Barack Obama Should Have Never Had to Make
Barack Obama's speech on race and Jeremiah Wright yesterday is part of an issue that, should Obama do as expected and win the Democrat nomination, will certainly come up over and over again in the fall, like the YouTube videos he referred to yesterday. Jeremiah Wright and his Liberation Theology is something that no American …
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Frankie Schaeffer: Are We Really That Unpatriotic?
Frankie Schaeffer evidently doesn't like some of the things some of us have been saying about Obama and patriotism: Dad and I were amongst the founders of the Religious right. In the 1970s and 1980s, while Dad and I crisscrossed America denouncing our nation's sins instead of getting in trouble we became darlings of the …
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Now Alan Greenspan Tell Us What a Mess We’re In
Alan Greenspan tells us the obvious: "The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War," Greenspan said in a Financial Times commentary. "It will end eventually when home prices stabilise and with them the value of …
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Planned Parenthood: Was It Really a Mistake?
Planned Parenthood assures us that the following was a mistake: Planned Parenthood of Idaho officials apologized Wednesday for what they called an employee's "serious mistake" in encouraging a donation aimed at aborting black babies. But such "eugenics" were the original intent of Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's founder.
Positive Infinity 