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9/24/2007
Ron Sider and Chris Seiple - a Better Approach to the Israel/Palestine Issue
8/24/2007
Dispensationalism vs. the Rest of Evangelicalism on the Israeli/Palestinian
Controversy
8/16/2007
Forgiveness: The Way of Deliverance from Evil (Desmond Tutu, Miroslav Volf, NT
Wright)
7/27/2007
Conservatives and the Minimum Wage
7/09/2007
Justice and Fair Trade Coffee
7/09/2007
Missing White Woman Syndrome - The Media and Jessie Davis
7/01/2007
When Patriotism Warps the Christian Faith - Bob Hyatt, "Faith shouldn't be red,
white and blue."
7/01/2007
Responsibility in Marketing
6/29/2007
Immigration - A Christian Response
6/27/2007
Social Justice and the Individualistic Gospel - relegating social justice to
merely a “program in the church.”
6/25/2007
A Culture that Revels in Denying the 10th Commandment
6/24/2007
Happening Upon an Alleged Murderer's House
6/22/2007
Fire Destroys The Simple Way Community Center
6/20/2007
Just Generosity and Poverty - Here's some great book recommendations
5/16/2007
The Cost
of the War - Bill Moyers Journal
4/25/2007
Peace - The Art of Children
3/29/2007
41% Percent of Your 2006 Taxes Go to War
3/29/2007
Why Justice is So Important to the Emerging Church
3/28/2007
Gospel Proclamation or Social Justice? Why Not Both?
3/15/2007
Dobson, et. al. Versus the Rest of Evangelicalism
3/12/2007
Embrace or Distance - The Return of the Prodigal Son
2/27/2007
Amazing Grace, How Sweet is the Sound of Justice?
2/26/2007
Balmer’s Left Ideological Rhetoric Undermines His Book Thy Kingdom Come by
Randall Balmer
2/19/2007
This Will Cure Your Cynicism - reflections on the Jubilee Conference (Shane
Claiborne, Gary Haugen)
2/14/2007
Jubilee 2007
2/12/2007
Evangelicals, Homosexuality, and Divorce
1/15/2007
We
Still Have a Dream - Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech
12/20/2006
Shalom is a very practical thing
12/19/2006
Peace in place of Affliction, Storms, Despair
Reflection on “Peace” at Christmas (Isaiah 54 & 55)
12/16/2006
Praying for Our Troops during this Christmas Season...
...And that Our Nation Would Learn the Meaning of Peace.
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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