The Anti-Manichaeist

I am thankful for my old friend Steve Knight, who initially launched me into the blogosphere, for bringing to my attention the working draft of
“Evangelical Call to Civic Responsiblity”. I’ve commented some at his blog on specific policy-issues(gay-marriages, abortion) at his blog. Now, I am going to focus in the commentary below on the political […]

Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
The book is scheduled to come out on July 4th.
The author argues that “the West is losing the war against al-Qaeda and that an ‘avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked’ war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden’s hands.” According to the author, Osama […]

For Iraq Shiites, Faith knows no boundaries
The influence of shiite Sadr is unlikely to be undercut by supporting shiite “moderate” Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The reason is that there is a solidarity of sorts among shiites and Sadr has a staying power on account of the fact that his father was a prominent recent […]

Politicians Face Censure From Bishops on Abortion Rights
A lot of people have written on this issue already, but when I write about it, one point keeps coming up over and over again:Since when has the ecclesiastical leadership of the Roman Catholic Church been infallible wrt the relationship between Church and State? That is what […]

Today’s article in the NYTIMES describes how thanks to the leadership of Ralph Reed that the Bush Administration is calling on many Southern Baptist preachers to do whatever they can without losing their tax-exempt status to support the president’s re-election, which includes a great deal of voter-registration of their congregations.
Jack Graham, the president of […]

Get Connected
I’ve posted there twice and hope to get some feedback on my ideas about recasting the abortion debate in more neutral terms as concerning the legal redefinition of when human personhood begins and working out the meanings of elective vs. non-elective abortions.
dlw

BBC article on Bush’s adamancy in the face of the 9-11 counsel’s findings
Apparently, both sides agree there were contacts between the two groups, but the 9-11 counsel has concluded that there was no evidence that it led to any kind of working relationship between al-Qaeda and Iraq.
This ought to have serious consequences for the […]

US Christian Ad stands by Iraqis
A Christian organisation in the US has prepared an advertisement for Arab TV condemning the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail.
dlw:We should have more of these and we should also show the arab/muslim world the power of democracy.
I was thinking that Christian groups in the US could […]

Unfit to Print?
The above is a wonderful expose of how major USAmerican newspapers, particularly the NYTIMES, has evinced a longstanding pattern of not reporting news that would make the US look bad or diminish the credibility of the BushAdmin’s argument for immediate regime-change in Iraq.
It would strike me as a likely consequence of […]

As mentioned before, Gary Dorrien has the distinction of being the only non-evangelical to ever do a history of evangelical theology. In his introduction, he gives as his favorite def’n of an evangelical as, “anyone who likes Billy Graham”. He then offers three ideal-types for types of evangelicals.
Here’s some paragraphs from the introduction(p.10) to […]