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- Revisiting Christmas past — Is there really a ‘war’ on Christmas?: It’s time for me to revisit “Christmas Past,” to borrow or misuse a phrase from Charles Dickens, and update some comments I made about the Christmas holiday season. When I [...]
- Is America a Christian nation? What should textbooks say?: Is America a “Christian” nation? In what way can any nation be Christian? How should Christianity be treated in public school textbooks? These are questions educators and parents have battled [...]
- Only bad Bible exegesis says U.S. must ALWAYS back Israeli actions: Really bad Bible exegesis says the U.S. must ALWAYS back Israeli actions, no matter what Israel decides to do, no matter how the react to opposition, no matter how they [...]
- To me at least, pomposity seems off the mark for Christian leaders: I wonder — do they make a diet pill designed to trim down “fatheads”? Oh, of course I know they don’t. But the last post I made has me thinking [...]
- Evangelical acquaintance of mine loses job for leaning toward ‘liberal’: I just found out one of the finest Christians and all-around finest, nicest people I’ve had the privilege of meeting in my checkered past is out of a job for [...]
- Somewhere between religious extremes lies the real Candidate Palin: I’ve been a “religious” person all my life, and that ranges from the fundamentalist evangelicalism and Pentecostalism of my teen and early adult years all the way over to the [...]
- Easter Sunday — musings on a special day and what it meant to me and my family: I’m not trying to get preachy or sermonize here, but this is a special day for my family, Easter Sunday, and this particular Easter has been very “up and down” [...]
- Archbishop of Canterbury raises tempers in Britain over Islamic law: Let’s see, as close as I can figure, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams was giving a lecture and got into the subject of “sharia law,” or Islamic law based on [...]
- Ah-HAH — here’s proof (?) that America is forsaking God, just look at the new dollar coins: Oh, my Lord, will the good religious folks out there never cease in their passion for persecution? A column in our local newspaper decries the way the newest U.S. dollar [...]
- Nice place, good people — I visited church to tell pastor who wrote column thanks: I visited a local church yesterday to tell the pastor thank you. Awhile ago, I made reference to a column the pastor, the Rev. Phil Snider of Brentwood Christian Church [...]
- Kudos to these parents who raised this young man of faith who knows how to think: Our local newspaper today ran an opinion column written by a 14-year-old who lives in a small town near here. The writer, Dylan Wyatt, did such a great job of [...]
- Column calls for political, religious understanding — but can we work together?: I read a reader’s guest column in the local paper’s opinion pages today which made such sense, regarding religion and politics (the two main focuses of this blog, I guess), [...]
- Religion enters the political mix as GOP candidates maneuver in South Carolina: “Nothin’ could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning …” Those are the words from an old song running through my head right now from my childhood [...]
- My present to you: A ‘war on Christmas’ letter from God himself: An evangelical/fundamentalist Christian friend of mine actually sent this to me as a forwarded email. I’ve shortened it and done some light editing. I think it is a marvelous response, [...]
- Candidate Thompson answers religion questions in predictable fashion: I found this account of Fred Thompson’s answer to questions about religion in government interesting. Interesting, but very predictable. The encounter took place following Thompson’s appearance at a South Carolina [...]
- Preaching or propaganda in North Korean plan?: OK, so what’s going to happen here — legitimate Christian evangelism or Communist propaganda? Rick Warren, pastor of one of the mega-churches here in the U.S., announced recently that he [...]