The Anti-Manichaeist

Once again I’m piggy-backing off of Jesus Politics. The New PantaGruel is a prime example of how social conservative thinking does not dovetail naturally with economic conservativism. They show what happens when socially conservative Christians develop deeper habits of political deliberation. They do not become “liberals”, they become independents who are critical […]

Thanks to Jesus Politics for this prophetic polemic by Rick Mercier.my favorite paragraph:
Jesus was quite a troublemaker. In fact, I’m thinking the Bush administration would have a special place for Jesus were the swarthy Nazarene to take up his ministry today in the U.S. of A.–in a cell with other Middle Eastern men awaiting deportation.
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Just read the recent editorial by Frank Rich. I have to say I wish the religious right played a smarter game. Because I do not like having children so easily exposed to brazen heterosexual promiscuity in the media. But at least we’ll be have the president pushing for an amendment to protect […]

Gracias a Carlos over at JesusPolitics for bringing to my attention a beliefnet interview of Christian author, Max Lucado.
I’m going to get my friend Solly somewhat tiffed at me, but you know what they say, the only good calvinist is an inconsistent one. Lucado shows his inconsistencies in a manner that is […]

The Ukraine has a special place in my family’s hearts, inasmuch as my parents and other family members have visited it several times with short-term mission trips to their sister-Baptist church in Ukraine. My parents have learned important ukrainian phrases like, “Please, No more Food!”
I read with much interest Timothy Ash’s Guardian […]

Wikipedia has an extensive entry on Fundamentalism. It would be good for liberals who seek to avoid another rout like the past election to understand the meaning.
For fundamentalists, the belief that the Bible alone is the basis for determining what is right conduct has discouraged a sweeping dedication to the life of […]

Kaysea of Any Girl Can be Glamorous suggested for me to read Naomi Wolf’s 1995 article in the New Republic after I had argued that Kerry would have won if he adopted my proposal for compromise on abortion. She brought up Wolf’s piece in tandem with her distrust of our ability to take the […]

my past writings reflect my moderate, heterosexist views on the matter. By heterosexist, I mean I do not believe homosexual and heterosexual orientations are equally valid in God’s eyes. The only reason I believe this is because of the Bible’s strident condemnations of homosexual acts. Because I give the Bible authority over my worldview and […]

Bob Jones III writes a congradulatory letter to prez Bush. Both Andrew Sullivan and Josh Marshall have posted about it at their widely read blogs. Its scary the extent that so much gets read into these issues of abortion and homosexuality and what-not. Its clear to me that Bush’s win may be […]

Frank Rich’s recent article points out how religious conservatives in Blue America are only getting largely symbolic votes on proposals guaranteed to fail, such as the gay marriage constitutional amendment, which still doesn’t have a prayer of rounding up the two-thirds majority needed for its passage. He points out the hypocripsies of Fox News […]