The Anti-Manichaeist

I found this post and thought it was very well done. I saw Hotel Rwanda again recently and Crash this weekend. I was impressed by Cheadle’s performances in both films.
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There is a decent summary of claims that the decline of annual aggregate oil production is going to cause apocalyptic problems over at Theologyweb. One of my students from Mexico told me that he was saving up to hole in during the coming apocalypse and I think he was only half joking.
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There is a good post by Attytood on how New Orleans is a casualty of GWII. And so it seems the cost of our immediate preemptive unilateral action in Iraq continue to mount.
My friend Matt writes a nice commentary on how Bush’s speech where he compares the War on Terrorism/Iraq with World […]

I just ran into the concept of the Full Gospel Businessmen’s fellowships while I was reading Operation World’s prayer page for Nigeria. Apparently 800 chapters of such organizations exist in Nigeria and they exert a considerable influence on the leaders of the political and commercial world in Nigeria. I’m not sure what John […]

Anyone who spends large amounts of time arguing on this topic with a hope of being the one that resolves it politically qualifies as an abortion-nut.
I contacted Colleen Rowley, the former FBI informant turned whistle-blower turned democrat party candidate for the House of Representative of MN, wrt my idea to depoliticize abortion. I was […]

I was considering XPatriatedTexan’s idea for an alternative to US occupation of Iraq. He thinks that it is worth considering having a much larger occupation force composed of Egyptians and Pakistanis. This would have the advantage of being a muslim-led occupation with the numbers needed to keep the peace for the […]

I got into a discussion with a young anabaptist, Greg, a southern evangelical conservative political wag, James Atticus Bowden(JAB) and Liberal Baptist historian Streak over at Haysoos Politicas after I stated that I thought John Yoder got the NTestament wrong in stating that the state is to be viewed as an irreparably pagan institution that […]

Operation World’s country for today is Nicaragua. Apparently Evangelicals in Nicaragua have gone from 1.8% in 1960 to 13.7% in 1990. But there are many serious divisions and problems facing the evangelicals in Nicaragua and many of them are economic and political in nature.

I just took the following denominational quiz and got the following rankings.
1: Anabaptist (Mennonite/Quaker etc.) (100%)2: Methodist/Wesleyan/Nazarene (85%)3: Pentecostal/Charismatic/Assemblies of God (78%)4: Baptist (Reformed/Particular/Calvinistic) (76%)5: Church of Christ/Campbellite (71%)6: Seventh-Day Adventist (69%)7: Baptist (non-Calvinistic)/Plymouth Brethren/Fundamentalist (62%)8: Congregational/United Church of Christ (59%)9: Eastern Orthodox (59%)10: Anglican/Episcopal/Church of […]

I was visiting Michael Kaspar’s travelblog when I found a link to the website of Operation World. Operation World has webpages that are full of information on different countries and are meant to be prayer guides for those countries.