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4/09/2010
Should Christians Pay Taxes After Obamacare? What about Government-Sanctioned
Torture?
4/05/2010
Does Your Politics Cause You to Sin?
3/22/2010
Stupak votes for Health Care Bill After Being Promised an Executive Order
Banning Abortion Funding
3/19/2010
Glenn Beck: American Progressivism = Socialism
No, it isn’t. It is actually American Individualism to the Max. David
Koyzis' insights into the American Political Progressive Movement
3/18/2010
Is “Progressive” as evil as Glenn Beck makes it to be?
Glenn Beck: “We’re declaring war on the progressive movement.”
3/15/2010
Do Not Pledge Allegiance to a Political Party
James K. A. Smith on our allegiance the King-in-waiting.
3/12/2010
Senate Health Care Reform Bill is Not Good Enough
It is Not Explicit Enough About Abortion Funding
3/11/2010
Glenn Beck: If Your Church Teaches "Social Justice," Leave It.
But the Gospel of Jesus Christ demands that Christians engage in justice issues.
2/25/2010
An Example of the Stormin' Mormon (Glenn Beck)'s Mode of Operation
Glenn Beck and Historical Inaccuracies
2/23/2010
Glenn Beck: The Stormin’ Mormon’s Credentials to Teach History
Christians believe that Glenn Beck is a legitimate historian of American
history? Really?
2/08/2010
Betty White Undermines Tim Tebow's Punchline
2/02/2010
Tim Tebow defended by a pro-choice, female sports writer
1/26/2010
The Supreme Court Ruling on Corporate Funding of Campaigns
1/23/2010
Letter to Pat Robertson from Satan concerning Haiti
1/22/2010
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert take on the Political Pundits
12/16/2006
Praying for Our Troops during this Christmas Season...
...And that Our Nation Would Learn the Meaning of Peace.
1/21/2010
Andy
Crouch on Creating Culture
1/20/2010
Gabe Lyons on Influencing Culture
1/19/2010
Kiva's Jessica Jackley on Creating Sustainable Financing to Overcome Poverty
GLOBAL WARMING: The Cornwall Alliance's "An Evangelical Declaration on Global
Warming”
1/05/2010
Cornwall Alliance's Calvin Beisner Weighs In
12/30/2009
Cornwall Alliance’s “Christian Worldview”: Free Market Capitalism
12/22/2009
Cornwall Alliance's Denial of the Power of the Fall
12/17/2009
Imago Dei is More than "Dominion"
12/17/2009
Things We Can Affirm in Cornwall Alliance's Declaration
12/16/2009
Fundamentalist Suspicion Toward the Scientific Community Dies Hard
12/15/2009
Do All Evangelicals Hold to a Conservative Political Viewpoint on Economics?
12/14/2009
Evangelicals Divided Over Climate Change
12/19/2009
Help End Child Slavery - Send This to Chocolate Companies
12/08/2009
Slavery and Chocolate
11/30/2009
Pulpit and Politics: a third way is possible
11/04/2009
Oh, Those Stinkin’ Democrats and Their Stand on Abortion!
Ummm... Wait a minute. This is not the kind of news you hear on Focus on the
Family.
10/20/2009
Religious Right Admits that Marriage is Hard
Lisa Miller of Newsweek writes this week in her Religion column that “Marriage
is Hard—the religious right admits it.”
10/19/2009
Uproar: Obama Tells Muslim Nations that the United States is Not a “Christian
Nation”
Obama Says the Same Thing as Washington and Adams, but the Religious Right Do
Not Want to Acknowledge It
10/14/2009
Christian Ideas that Create a Better World
Q Ideas: A great new resource for Christians seeking to transform the culture.
9/30/2009
Christians MUST NOT Participate in Demonizing Obama
HEALTH CARE REFORM
9/09/2009
Our Ineffective and Bloated Health Care System
The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
9/08/2009
Is Health Care a Commodity?
As the left and right blast each other concerning health care, a major
question remains unanswered.
9/02/2009
Health Care Reform: Subsidiarity and Sphere Sovereignty
These two Christian political philosophies should inform the debate
9/01/2009
Health Care Justice
Most health care is not “rescue care.” Most health care is helping people
deal with illness on a day-to-day basis – and this is where
America is bad. Really bad.
9/08/2009
AHHHHHH!!! Obama is going to speak at my kids’ school!!!!
7/29/2009
More Mythology about the Founding Fathers: Franklin at the Constitutional
Convention
Mark Noll blows up Peter Marshall's revisionist American history books
7/27/2009
Texas Board of Education May Revamp History Curriculum toward Revisionist
Christian and Conservative Themes
Texas is a big state; therefore, their curriculum often affects the nation’s
curriculum.
6/30/2009
Call 2 Fall: An Exercise in Bad Biblical Exegesis
Family Research Council reinterprets 2 Chronicles 7:14
6/25/2009
Rumsfeld's Holy War
During the Bush administration, we were assured over and over again that the War
in Iraq was not a “Holy War.” But Rumsfeld's daily
Worldwide Intelligence Update showed a different story.
6/16/2009
What do evangelicals need most concerning politics?
My response to this question posed by Gideon Strauss (of The Center for Public
Justice)
6/15/2009
My article "Who Am I?" included in "Worldview Coursepack"
5/26/2009
American Patriotism and the Bible - This is Getting Ugly
The American Patriot's Bible from Thomas Nelson Publishers.
3/24/2009
Should the motto "In God We Trust" be removed from U.S. currency?
The Christian and Economics
3/13/2009
The Economics of the Kingdom
Here are a couple issues that arise from believing in strict “free-market,”
“laissez-faire” or "pure” capitalism.
3/12/2009
Market Economy vs. Market Society
3/11/2009
Is Capitalism God’s Ordained Economic System?
1/23/2008
Yes, Income Redistribution is WRONG.
1/21/2008
Inequity between the Rich and the Poor
2/01/2009
Focus on the Family's THE TRUTH PROJECT
Does The Truth Project Have a Hidden Agenda? And If So, Is It Really Seeking
"Truth?"
1/28/2009
I supported Obama, but not this...
Fight FOCA
1/16/2009
Gary Haugen and International Justice Mission featured in The New Yorker
1/07/2009
Sign this Ecumenical Christian Letter to President-elect Obama
Support diplomatic efforts for a two-state solution for Israelis and
Palestinians
12/02/2008
The Seven Deadly Sins of Evangelicals and Politics
courtesy of John Ortberg at the Out of Ur blog
11/26/2008
Homosexuality: Yes? No? Maybe?
11/20/2008
Radio
Pulpits
Do this as an experiment: Turn on your AM radio and find one or two of your
local Christian radio stations. Listen for a while to the
preachers there. Once you’ve done that for a while, hit the "seek" button and
isten to Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, or Rush Limbaugh,
reflect on this: How is their rhetorical style similar to the preachers on the
Christian radio stations?
11/12/2008
The
Dignity of Plants?
Colson's Misunderstanding of the Goodness of All of Creation
11/05/2008
Evangelical Fear - Rise Above It!
Thoughts in light of this presidential election
Evangelicals and the Election
11/03/2008
McCain or Obama ? - A Plea for Unity
10/30/2008
Reasons Why Evangelicals SHOULD Vote for Obama
10/23/2008
Reasons Why Evangelicals SHOULD Vote for McCain
10/02/2008
The Blame Game – Pointing Fingers Concerning the Financial Crisis
9/29/2008
$700,000,000,000 - What you could do with that much money?
The cost
of the war in Iraq
9/25/2008
Fearful Politics and Evangelicals
"God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control." (2
Timothy 1:7)
9/24/2008
Provocative Questions
The New Conspirators by Tom Sine
9/19/2008
The Postmodern Narrative-Based Election
Oh, how we love story above rational analysis and propositional truth. That is
one of the big digs against postmodernism and the
emerging church. In Newsweek, there’s an article entitled, “Heard Any Good
Stories Lately?”
9/08/2008
Vetting the Candidates on Their Religious World Views
9/06/2008
Hypocrisy of Political Pundits
9/05/2008
What Happened to the Maverick?
John McCain's loss of who he is
7/03/2008
The Real Problems with the "Separation" of Church and State
The First Amendment does not say that the government cannot aid or cooperate
with religious bodies.
7/01/2008
Is Obama the “Emerging Church Candidate?”
6/26/2008
James Dobson v. Barack Obama
6/20/2008
The Creation Sets in Motion the Development of Human Creativity
God is the creator of potential.
6/18/2008
How Will History Regard George W. Bush?
And, what will be God’s judgment upon him?
6/09/2008
Envision: Quotes on Social Justice
6/03/2008
American Civil Religion and the Problem of Israel/Palestine
5/30/2008
Are Politicians Failing Our Lobbyists?
5/29/2008
Pray for our Military Chaplains
5/23/2008
Did You
Know?
Watch this video on how the technological revolution is changing our lives and
how it must also change our whole paradigm about
education.
5/14/2008
Iraqi Civilian Death Count
5/06/2008
Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, and the Problem with Race in America
4/28/2008
Is the political enterprise a result of the Fall?
3/31/2008
Evangelicals a Liberal Can Love
Nicholas Kristof, columnist for The New York Times wrote an opinion piece
recently that takes liberals to task about their attitude
toward evangelicals.
3/22/2008
Obama, Wright, Faith, Politics, and Race
3/10/2008
Barack Obama - On His Christianity, Same-Sex Unions, and Abortion
2/26/2008
A Republican is Impressed by a Young Generation of Evangelicals
"I have seen the future of evangelical Christianity, and it is pierced. And
sometimes tattooed." - Michael Gerson
1/26/2008
Christian Politics with "Principled Pluralism"
1/18/2008
Faith and Politics: We Haven’t Advanced Very Far
The reason the candidates are speaking “religious talk” is to pander to the many
Christians. But this is simply too shallow for a truly Christian political
philosophy.
12/18/2007
FCC Changes Broadcast-Newspaper Owner Ban
11/13/2007
Pat Robertson Backs Giuliani
8/24/2007
Dispensationalism vs. the Rest of Evangelicalism on the Israeli/Palestinian
Controversy
7/27/2007
Conservatives and the Minimum Wage
Listen to well-intended fisal conservatives, and you might think that raising
the minimum wage is a lame-brained fanciful idea that will actually hurt the
poor.
7/09/2007
Justice and Fair Trade Coffee
7/09/2007
Missing White Woman Syndrome
7/01/2007
When Patriotism Warps the Christian Faith
7/01/2007
Responsibility in Marketing
6/29/2007
Immigration - A Christian Response
6/27/2007
Social Justice and the Individualistic Gospel
The problem: Social Justice is a second-tier thing, while personal conversion is
that which is of top priority. Imagine what it would be like in our churches if
there were no such division.
6/25/2007
A Culture that Revels in Denying the 10th Commandment
What would happen if American Christians took seriously the 10th Commandment –
the one that tells us not to covet? Here’s my guess: The economy would collapse.
6/24/2007
Happening Upon an Alleged Murderer's House
6/20/2007
Just Generosity and Poverty: Book reviews
6/20/2007
A New Kind of Conversation is Now in Print
I just received my complimentary copies
4/25/2007
Peace - The Art of Children
4/19/2007
Virginia Tech From the Students' Point of View
4/17/2007
"When a young person dies, a universe of possibility dies as well."
Virginia Tech Tragedy
4/16/2007
Tragedy and the Will of God
Virginia Tech Tragedy
4/07/2007
Musings on the debate between Rick Warren and Sam Harris
3/29/2007
41% Percent of Your 2006 Taxes Go to War
A report from the Friends Committee on National Legislation
3/29/2007
Why Justice is So Important to the Emerging Church
"I regard the main function of postmodernity under God to be the preaching of
the doctrine of the Fall"
3/28/2007
Gospel Proclamation or Social Justice? Why Not Both?
3/15/2007
Dobson, et. al. Versus the Rest of Evangelicalism
2/27/2007
Amazing Grace, How Sweet is the Sound of Justice?
I saw the movie Amazing Grace yesterday. And I was moved to tears. Why? Because
I wonder when we’ll get it.
2/26/2007
Balmer’s Left Ideological Rhetoric Undermines His Book
Review of "Thy Kingdom Come" by Randall Balmer
2/19/2007
This Will Cure Your Cynicism
How watching students get the gospel changes your heart
2/12/2007
Evangelicals, Homosexuality, and Divorce
Has the issue of homosexuality become a political maneuver?
1/15/2007
We
Still Have a Dream
how evangelical Christians have failed miserably to move our nation away from
racialization.
12/11/2006
Light in the Darkness (Isaiah 8 & 9)
11/27/2006
The Good News of Jesus vs. the “good news” of Caesar
11/22/2006
America: God’s Providential Blessing or a Humanist Political Experiment?
11/16/2006
“The Politics of Jesus” from Newsweek
11/15/2006
Borrowing Rhetorical Style from Babylon
Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly,
Sean Hannity,
Jon Stewart, Al Frankin, and Keith Olbermann
11/13/2006
“You are the salt of the earth.”
Those who embrace a Protective Social Action read that verse and primarily think
of salt as being a preservative agent...
11/10/2006
My Response to Francis Beckwith about Ted Haggard
11/09/2006
Beyond Religious Trappings to Really Shining God’s Glorious Light (Isaiah 58)
11/08/2006
Two Ways to Look at the Ted Haggard Scandal
11/07/2006
Why Evangelicals Have Trouble Moving from Protective to Transformative Social
Ethics (reflecting on the legacy of CFH Henry)
10/31/2006
More on Protective vs. Transformative Social Action
10/30/2006
Moving From Protective to Transformative Social Action
9/23/2006
The Myth of a Christian Nation – Wrap Up Review
9/21/2006
Jim Wallis vs. Tony Perkins on CBS Evening News
9/18/2006
The Myth of a Christian Nation Ch 9
9/12/2006
Iraq and 9/11: Bush gets testy with Reporter
9/11/2006
Five Years After 9/11 – What Christians Have NOT Learned
8/29/2006
Barack Obama and Christianity Today
The Editors of Christianity Today "Get it Mostly Right"
8/25/2006
The Myth of a Christian Nation Ch 6-8
8/24/2006
Would You Have Left Boyd’s Church?
reflection on The Myth of a Christian Nation and Colossians 1
8/21/2006
The Myth of a Christian Nation, Ch 4 & 5
8/21/2006
Kingdom Tension and Paradox: Loving the Kingdom more than the World, but
Allowing the Kingdom to Transform the World
8/15/2006
Witherington Review of "Faiths of the Founding Fathers"
8/14/2006
The Myth of a Christian Nation, Ch 3
8/10/2006
Christians in the Public Square
8/3/2006
The Myth of a Christian Nation, Ch
2
8/7/2006
The Middle East, Jon Stewart, and Armageddon
8/4/2006
Randall Balmer Review at Scot McKnight's "Jesus Creed"
(Balmer, Thy Kingdom Come, An Evangelical's Lament: How the Religious Right
Distorts the Faith and Threatens America)
8/3/2006
The Myth of a Christian Nation, Ch 1
8/1/2006
The Myth of a Christian Nation: Introductory Review
7/31/2006
Politics and the Kingdom of God - Scot McKnight's blog on Greg Boyd
7/30/2006
The Stages of the Politics of Individualism
Emerging Christian Interaction with Political Ideologies Part 3
7/25/2006
The Politics of Individualism
Emerging Christian Interaction with Political Ideologies Part 2
7/24/2006
Bush's Tactic of Refusing Laws Is Probed
Bar Association Panel Criticizes President's Many Challenges to Legislation
7/15/2006
Randall Balmer: "The Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America"
7/13/2006
Detainees in the War on Terror: Three Principles of a Biblical Worldview
7/12/2006
Tolerance in the Age of Ann Coulter (Jon Meacham on the USA's Founding Fathers)
6/29/2006
Supreme Court rejects Guantanamo military tribunals
6/29/2006
Obama: Democrats Must Court Evangelicals
6/28/2006
Is Coulter’s Enemy “Liberalism” or “Secularism”?
Excellent analysis from tothesource
6/28/2006
Emerging Call to Social Justice
Calling young evangelicals to social justice; Relationships with poor urged
6/27/2006
Global Warming - Republican Agreement!!
4/28/2006
The Supposed Faith of our Founding Fathers
4/27/2006
Marvin Olasky’s Conservative Fantasy “World”
4/12/2006
PRISM EPISTLE reviews ON EARTH AS IT IS IN ADVERTISING
1/9/2006
George W. Bush (Will Ferrell) on Global Warming: "Adam and Eve drove an
Excursion."
1/2/2006
War Propaganda Found in my Inbox
12/29/2005
Faith and Ethics
12/21/2005
Christmas and American Christianity’s War in Iraq
12/20/2005
Mohler questions the "Happy Holidays" battle
12/5/2005
James Dobson Misses the Point (Again)
12/1/2005
Today is World AIDS Day
11/28/2005
“Don’t Be Evil”: The Unofficial Google Slogan and Corporate
Corruption
11/21/2005
Have the Hurricanes Slipped from Your Mind? Joel Daniel Harris' words about
what he saw
11/4/2005
James Dobson, Bully
10/21/2005
Strict Constructionist Hypocricy about Harriet Miers
10/17/2005
Starbucks' Cafe Estima: The Ethics of Fair-Trade Coffee
10/4/2005
On Politics: SOME Evangelicals get it!
10/3/2005
Emerging Multi-Ethnic Ministry
9/16/2005
World Vision and Hurricane Katrina
9/16/2005
Is the Pledge of Allegiance Unconstitutional?
9/15/2005
Stinkin' Liberal Media!
9/15/2005
"Faith" and "Service" in the Wake of Katrina
9/14/2005
Satire from Rick on the Senators at the Roberts Hearings
8/25/2005
More on Pat Robertson
8/24/2005
Pat Robertson: The Syncretism of Right-Wing Politics with Christianity
8/23/2005
Evangelicalism’s Anti-Darwinism Warps Our Environmental Concern
8/12/2005
Brian McLaren on Left-Right Politics
8/10/2005
How a Faithful Nation Gets Jesus Wrong
8/9/2005
Imagining Atomic Bombs
7/26/2005
White Evangelicalism and Racial Issues in America
6/21/2005
Shalom is the Way it is Meant to Be
5/30/2005
I just signed the ONE Declaration
5/8/2005
Somebody needs to be told that GOD IS NOT A REPUBLICAN...or a Democrat!
5/3/2005
The Terri Schiavo Case—Some Balance Please
4/25/2005
TV-Turnoff Week? Yea, that's it!
4/13/2005
Very Cool--Scot McKnight is blogging
4/1/2005
Fear
and Loathing It is easy to get frustrated and even fearful.
You hear frightening news on the Christian radio talk shows and read it in the
columns of your most trusted Christian leaders. “The country is no longer
Christian! We are sliding toward Babylon!”
3/28/2005
For the record, here’s where I stand politically
3/22/2005
Gives the tagline “Fair and Balanced” a new meaning Fox network dishes out
"liberal" crap, while FOX NEWS panders to the "conservatives"
3/21/2005
Top 5 Books I Read in 2004 (#1)
Heaven Is a Place on
Earth: Why Everything You Do Matters to God by Michael
E. Wittmer
3/15/2005
Top 5 Books I Read in 2004 (#2b) Mustard Seed Versus McWorld: Reinventing Life
and Faith for the Future by Tom Sine
3/14/2005
Hooray! Evangelicals Finally Addressing Global Warming!
3/10/2005
Politics and the Christian Faith - Check out the new chart on my website
3/8/2005
Why we need to become a “Vanguard Church”
3/8/2005
How
to End Poverty
3/2/2005
The Gospel of HEARTS, MINDS, MOUTHS, and HANDS
2/25/2005
Colson
v. Wallis
2/13/2005
One More Shot at the Bush Budget Proposal
2/12/2005
Jim Wallis: 'I See Genuine Soul-Searching Among Democrats' (This from
Christianity Today...)
2/10/2005
Bush Crying Wolf Again? (This seems to be a pattern...)
2/10/2005
More on the Bush 2006 Budget Proposal
2/8/2005
The Bush Budget Proposal
2/8/2005
God's
Politics - Jim Wallis has been making a rather big splash lately.
1/18/2005
The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience
1/15/2005
Top 10 Myths of Disaster Relief - Aid groups address public stereotypes about
overseas disasters
1/12/2005
Christian "Moral Values" and Bush's Choice for Attorney General
12/8/2004
What if Democrats Were Pro-Life?
12/6/2004
Stem Cells can help the paralyzed stand up and walk!
12/1/2004
The Myth We've Been Told About the Faith of Our Founding Fathers
11/24/2004
On the globalization of economy
11/16/2004
N. T. Wright on Redemption
11/14/2004
Am I an Environmental Wacko?
11/5/2004
Bush is the Winner! Kerry is the Loser!
9/2/2004
Beyond Liberalism & Fundamentalism
9/2/2004
Why is Homosexuality Such a Heated Debate?
8/26/2004
Top Ten Election Issues
8/16/2004
God is not a Republican. Or a Democrat.
7/19/2004
Does Marriage Matter?
6/17/2004
Demand some accountability from Bush and Rumsfeld!
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