There seems to be a growing dissatisfaction in the way American Evangelical churches are going these days, and there is emerging a group of spokesmen for this feeling. I've taken a look at the likes of Leonard Sweet and Brian McLaren, but another one of those who is looking for a new way of doing …
Just When The Democrats Thought It Was Safe…
New York Governor Elliot Spitzer is linked to a prostitution ring: Just last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation. Administration officials would not say that this was the ring with which the governor had become involved. But a person with knowledge of the governor’s role said that the …
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Mike McManus and Successful Marriages
One frequent contributor to Virtue Online is Mike McManus, whose best known efforts are at saving marriages. He was featured on the 7 March 2008 700 Club, and that segment is this week's (delayed) podcast.
Underestimating the Clintons is a Dangerous Game
Johnathan Chait's piece in the New Republic is correct in showing how Hillary Clinton could win the Democrat nomination: Clinton's path to the nomination, then, involves the following steps: kneecap an eloquent, inspiring, reform-minded young leader who happens to be the first serious African American presidential candidate (meanwhile cementing her own reputation for Nixonian ruthlessness) …
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Californians for Home Schooling: Take a Cue From the French
The action by a court in the People's Republic of California threatening the end of home schooling there can be fought. Just take a cue from the French, as I noted last month: One of the Englishmen (whom I was having dinner with) noted that one reason the US is "behind" with cameras is that …
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Honor Moore: My Father, the Bishop, was gay. So what’s the big deal?
Honor Moore's article in the New Yorker about her father, the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Episcopal Bishop of New York, and the discovery that he was homosexual, has generated quite a buzz in Anglican/Episcopal blogs and websites (such as this and this.) But in reading the piece, it's hard for me to understand what the …
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Chain Ball, Anyone?
I've mentioned the sequence of charity balls in the Palm Beach social season, but the lack of stigma in doing time in Club Fed may yet spawn another one: In an interview published in the 2/25/08 issue of The New Yorker, Auchincloss bemoaned the lack of stigma associated with jail time: He (former Sotheby’s chair …
I’d Rather Pick My Own Laptop Bag, But…
The idea of TSA "designing" laptop bags isn't the swiftest, but getting one that would eliminate the ordeal of separate inspections would be a major improvement: Relief may be on the way for the one-quarter of the flying public who routinely carry laptop computers through airport security checkpoints and currently are required to remove their …
So What Is a Prophet?
"Keyboard Brian" responded to my piece on tithing. He probably should have read my latest back and forth with Russell Earl Kelly. I was very gratified at Dr. Kelly's response; it has lightened this whole discussion. One thing's for sure: you have to give credit to a man who's legally blind and hang glides! In …
The Chinese Are Figuring it Out
On my companion site vulcanhammer.info, I have an entire section devoted to my business dealings in China. In the epilogue to that, I make the following commentary: The triumph of the Communists in 1949 led to cutting off the Christian church (official and unofficial) from the outside world, organisationally and otherwise. But in the long …
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