The Anti-Manichaeist

I’m in an exchange with a Mike Nacrelli from Portland, Oregon on the politics of abortion via the weekly Prism E-pistles of Ron Sider’s Evangelicals for Social Action. You can sign up to receive these weekly e-pistles by emailing them at epistle at esa-online point org.
My first slightly edited letter response to […]

Douglas LeBlanc at GetReligion surveys the recent Time Magazine article on top twenty-five most influential USEvangelicals and awards them points for depicting evangelicals’ political and theological diversity. The Time article looks like an interesting read, the first person listed is Rick Warren. Ted Haggard, president of the NAE, is also mentioned as branching […]

As has been commented by my friend Matt, the successful vote in Iraq is being politicized by the right. Some claim that their Iraq strategy has been vindicated. I’m not doubting that it is a momentous occasion for the Iraqi people. I think its important that the whole story get told by […]

I plan to spend a quarter in Sweden starting in April to study about Swedish-Baptist-Pietism(and probably “fellowship” with the younger Swedish Christians there). I’d like to thank FunkyDung at Ales Rarus, an incredibly prolific blogger/writer, for an article about a Swedish pastor who is facing imprisonment for preaching against homosexuality. The issue is […]

I recently had my blog added to sixty-some blogs posted at plantemergent and Christian Unright Blogs. Over at planetemergent, I came across a sermon that Tony Jones gave at the ordination ceremony of a friend on Ordination/Hierarchy. He writes,
We are not here to make a minister. It is not to confer on this […]

Knowing full well what a sordid business much of politics is? I’ve been engaged in that debate over at Jesus Politics with a fellow Christian named Scott. Scott takes a libertarian view that is against the gov’t using violence to take from some and give to others. I’ve been rehashing Hobbsean arguments […]

My friends at the Social Gospel Today are two law-school students who plan on trying to lead a discussion of what can be done to eventually shore up social-security in the US. I’ve commented there some and would like to encourage others who are interested in that subject to hear them out.
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My friend Scott, at My Scribblings for his Amusement, has a well written post on verbal violence. He concludes that
In a world where communication is becoming easier daily and publication in electronic media is nearly cost-free, verbal abuse abounds. There are many people who would never strike a man, but would excoriate him verbally […]

The Editors of Washington Monthly go through and suggest some unusual candidates for the Democratic Party for the next election. Its a fun read. It’d be fun to read the Republican version as well, although maybe less fun because they’re not as desperate as a party for leadership as the Democrats are.
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As a former economics professor in Mexico, I picked up this book around Christmas time and started browsing it. Here is an interview with the author. The man has an interesting tale to tell, and not one that is very flattering to the economics profession. He(and the CIA jackals following up on […]