The Anti-Manichaeist

Allen Brill comments on Amy Sullivan’s post that the issue may really be about the maturity of Bush’s faith. He refers to an idea of stages of faith set out by James Fowler a methodist minister who also has a PhD in psychology. He suggests that Bush’s faith may be at a lower […]

The document whose full title is “For the Health of the Nation: An Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility” was just approved by an unanimous vote by the Board of Directors of the National Association of Evangelicals(NAE). According to their press release,
The drafting committee for the document included co-chairs Diane Knippers, President, Institute on […]

There is a flood of anti-Bush articles coming out right now. I think the more important ones are the ones by conservatives such as Karl Schwarz and Reaganite Doug Bandow and former MN Republican Gov’r Elmer Andersen. Also, alert your Republican friends to the Republicans for Kerry website. Conservative William F. Buckley […]

I just signed the petition for support of Church Folks for A Better America. There main theme is that we have been mislead into Iraq, a non-just war, where we have failed the Iraqi people and now we ought to see to it that the defacto non-Iraqi leadership of post-GWII Iraq is not USAmerican. […]

Please read the following post at TheologyWeb made by GRMorton.
This is going to seriously affect the world’s future and the sooner we start talking about it and doing something about it, the better.
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I splurged to watch a movie last night, Therese. The movie was not the best made movie ever, with the best acting, best scenery and best music, but it did convey how Therese’s striving for personal humility touched those around her and came to be a testimony to many others, even Mother Teresa. […]

I made a british Christian friend over at TWeb who I know as Solly. He is a Reformed Baptist who has rather leftish political views.
One of the things I found from his site was a link to a Christian Socialist website. I have had something of an interest in Christian Socialism […]

I’ve struggled with posting recently as there seems to be so much going on that is worth pointing out and commenting on, but which really is being dealt with adequately by others. I resonated very much with many of comments made by Jon Stewart on CNN Cross-Fire. We need to stop hurting America […]

Matt has a wonderful blog entry on how Kerry portrayed his faith and its relevance to his politics last night. He is a Catholic Moderate/Independent and his musings are worth reading. There also is the start of an interesting conversation in the commentary section that I would encourage people to read.
I’m afraid today […]

There are three steps.
First step: I wrote a more succinct version here. Presidential candidates could facilitate compromise at the nat’l level as to when legally human personhood begins by promising to pass a constitutional amendment that makes it so we as a nation redefine when legal personhood begins by a national referendum requiring a […]