The Anti-Manichaeist

I leave tomorrow for Sweden. I am going to be a seminary student there for two and a half months. I plan to study Swedish Baptist Pietism and learn from my Swedish Christians, while, hopefully, helping them to renew their churches. I then plan to go to Ukraine in mid-June. I […]

Gracias a Haysoos Politicas and Rick Bennett, there is a wonderful link to Vanguard Church’s collection of articles on many hot political issues and a collection of Christian organizations from across the spectrum. Vanguard’s spectrum has sparked a long debate on what it means to be in the Christian center. Bob at Vanguard […]

Gracias a Jesus politics for the link to Mode for Caleb’s post. Caleb argues that the heat over the Schiavo affair is due to an extensive breakdown of inter-cultural communication in the US. He reflects on his own experience and his impulse to accuse the religious right of being hypocritical. He reflects […]

My brother in Christ, Rick Bennett posts a wonderful list of things that he believes here.
I believe I like to procrastinate on busy-work stuff, like preparing for traveling to Sweden and Ukraine.
I’m trying to watch Fargo, but it’s hard for me because I am still hyper-sensitive to the realistic portrayal of violence. […]

The answer is evangelism with a more missiological/ecclesiastical focus.
Since I began to write and do research on the politics of abortion, I’ve had lots of opportunities to interact with people from both sides. It can be frustrating to tangle with pro-choicers who implicitly associate a woman’s right to abortion on demand at […]

I found out via Steve at Knightopia about Jeff Jarvis’s recent post about how the religious right may have exceeded its reach with the Terri case and may be about to experience a back-lash.
I know that with my family that they felt it was a family issue that the federal gov’t should not […]

I’m driving to my sister’s house in NDakota to spend Easter weekend with her, her husband and my almost one-year-old niece before I leave for Sweden and then Ukraine.
As you may know, I gave up movies for Lent. I violated that fast the other night so I could watch Underworld with my […]

I emailed Christian ethicist Glen Stassen, asking for his feedback on my idea to prevent and depoliticize abortion. He wrote back saying that he could not find a succinct statement of my idea and was to busy to read the whole thing. 
So here is a succinct statement of How to Depoliticize Abortion:

Apparently Germany is not going to block Wolfowitz for becoming the president of the World Bank. According to a European source, speaking on condition of anonymity, “It’s a closed matter, because there is no willingness on the European side to oppose the nomination,” The lack of willingness stems from recent spirited efforts by Wolfowitz […]

Young and Relentless poster Bill Prescott points to bloggers that have perused the State of the News Media 2005 and found support that major newspapers are cutting costs by slashing news divisions, particularly in internet divisions. He also shares news that regulations will be coming to the world of blogdom as Campaign Finance Reforms […]