The Anti-Manichaeist

Hillary Swank won her second best actress academy award. Clint Eastwood won best Director and Million Dollar Baby took the best film award. I watched “Million Dollar Baby” not too long before I started my lent fast from all movies, except maybe documentaries like “Born into Brothels” and “The Passion of Christ” for […]

Paul Musgrave, at In the Agora, has some words of wisdom for why we shouldn’t drag out the whole GWII thing in public town meetings. The debate over GWII is done and over with for now and we got many other issues to focus on. dlw

Carlos posted a link to a commentary by Simon Barrow at Ekklesia on an uproar among British Christians over a play/movie, “Jerry Springer – The Opera“. The protests revolve around the purported rights of religious communities in Britain not to be offended and, “is a standoff with no easy winners and many likely victims.” […]

Tony Jones, a fellow Minnesotan who is studying at Princeton, has a number of good recent posts dealing with sociocultural reflections on USEvangelicalism and Practical Theology(PT). I was attracted to his posts because I’ve long been interested in the cultural issues surrounding White USEvangelicalism. I also am much more interested in the sorts […]

Bob over at I am a Christian Too has a number of good recent posts. His most recent one nominates U2 singer Bono for president of the World Bank. It brings attention to Bono’s organization Debt, AIDS and Trade in Africa(DATA) that seeks to raise awareness of Africa’s problems and lobby governments to […]

Courtesy of Steve K., Ted Olsen has an insightful commentary on the Time’s 25 most influential evangelicals that us bloggers were raving about not long ago. The main points are that our influentials are based on their media exposure, not their service in ministry or knowledge of Scripture. And we are ourselves driven […]

Courtesy of Big Chris and then Carlos at Jesus Politics, Chuck Colson has advanced his own ten moral issues facing the US and slammed the muddled Moral Equivalency of the Religious Left with some muddled thinking of his own. And, Wallis has responded.
Colson’s position on abortion is similar to that of friar […]

I just received an email from the inter-faith alliance entitled, “Stop Religious-Based Employment Discrimination”. It begins with..
The US House of Representatives is expected to vote on H.R. 27, “The Job Training Improvement Act,” next week. This is the first vote on the faith-based initiative in 2005 and a crucial vote for the 109th congress.
Simply […]

Spiritual Capital is an interdisciplinary social scientific research initiative on the economic and social consequences of religion and spirituality, made possible with funding from the John Templeton Foundation. The program seeks to integrate the concept of spiritual capital into the human sciences by supporting rigorous and innovative research to build a network of scholars for […]

You can find info on the writing conference I attended this past weekend here. I recommend Jana Riess’s plenary speech on “writing for your mother” and her presentation of “How to Write a Book Proposal”.
Random thoughts from my notes:One interesting point the presenters made is that when an academic writes for a […]