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Today It’s Socks the Cat. Tomorrow It Will Be You.

If Hillary can dump Socks the cat, she's capable of doing anything. Our reaction:

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The Two Hard Questions About Evangelicals Moving Up

D. Michael Lindsay's book Faith in the Halls of Power documents the rise of evangelicals in American society.  That's an interesting subject, one that I dealt with some in Taming the Rowdies.  But I think there are two hard questions that need to be answered before people on both sides get too excited about this. …

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Reply to Susan Russell on Inclusivity and Grace

Kendall Harmon had a recent post on the Presiding Bishop’s webcast that included the statement, “There will be no outcasts in this Church.”  I could not resist responding as follows: You cannot continue to give preference to one without slighting another, for selection implies rejection. You despise, therefore, those whom you thus reject; for in …

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Anglican parishes to ordain own clergy. And on the flip side…

A couple of days ago I took the Anglo-Catholics to task for their ambiguous position relative to Roman Catholicism and how they needed to decide whether they are in or out of the "true church." It works both ways.  Now we see that that magnificent island which filled two continents with those who wanted or …

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There’s Catholicism and Then There’s…

The announcement that the Traditional Anglican Communion seeks full union with Rome isn't really news. It's been their objective for a long time.  The obvious dumb question here is, "why don't they just swim the Tiber and get it over with?" Part of the reason may lie in the fact that the Roman Catholic Church--wrongly, …

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Turkey fears Kurds, not Armenians

America is not responsible for chaos in the Middle East. The Middle East has known nothing but chaos for most of its history. The colonial policy of the European powers after World War I left inherently unstable structures in place that must, one day, meet their reckoning. But America’s obsession with the surgical implant of …

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A Fistful of Yuan: The Series Begins

Although blogging has become a big thing for me, I have other sites with more specific interests.  But one new feature may have some broader appeal: A Fistful of Yuan, which describes my family business dealings with the People's Republic of China in the early 1980's.  With the upcoming Olympics and all of the news …

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Is Texas Preparing for the Inevitable?

A long time ago, I wrote Archie Lowe: Before the Republic of Texas, about a friend who became involved in the Republic of Texas militia movement. On a recent visit to Texas' Secretary of State site, I noticed two interesting sections. The first was the Texas Border and Mexican Affairs part of the site.  Isn't …

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Religious-based education on trial

It seems that the People's Republic of California is at it again, as a group of Christian schools is suing the University of California system, claiming that their alumni's chances for admission are impeded by the system's rejection of some of their courses. For Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Centre for Law and …

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Israel May Propose Division of Jerusalem

Now that Israel may propose the division of Jerusalem, many evangelicals will panic.  With some justification. But it's a reminder to Jew and evangelical alike that, as I noted two years ago, if you're going to take the land, take it.  Neither has the stomach for such an adventure, and in part for the same …

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