The Anti-Manichaeist

Google News informed me today that Al Jazeera has a story on the way the US military is planting madeup stories in Iraqi News outlets in hopes that the spun news will bleed into the western media. It also shares about the extent the western media self censor in the coverage of news stories […]

I had two letter responses to my past week’s letter in the Evangelicals for Social Action’s Prism E-pistle. I wrote back a letter that replied to both of them.

A quick note on the case on parental notification for abortion before the Supreme Court. I think the underlying theme here needs to be that “all choice takes place in a moral/legal framework, Let’s talk about the framework!” For teens that framework is the sovereignty of their family. There is no good […]

Martin van Creveld, a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and one of the world’s foremost military historians, has written an article where he describes GWII as the most foolish war in over 2000 years and demands that Bush be impeached for misleading the US into the war.

I decided to write my own version of the Calvinist TULIP. A version that follows the original from a thematic standpoint.
Total divine Trust in human receptivity to and transmission of the Word of God and the leadings of the Holy Spirit.
Uncompromising Divine Pursuit of Reconciliation with and among Humanity.
Limited Atonement for […]

Mark Schmitt, at his blog the Decembrist, gives a good overview of the many ways that campaign contributions can buy favors from politicians and how just publicizing the amounts of the contributions on the internet will not be an effective check on such influence-buying. He thinks there is no alternative to some kind of […]

I am hoping to get the Minnesota Baptist Conference, who have supported extensive short-term missionaries with sister churches in Ukraine, to pay for some chapters of John M Perkins’s book, “A Quiet Revolution” to be translated into Russian so that they can be shared with the Christians in the former Soviet Union.
I’m thinking of […]

Ecumenical News International has an important article on how Christian leaders “want universal suffrage for the chief executive and legislative council elections. Currently, Hong Kong’s chief executive is picked by a Beijing-backed committee of 800 electors and only half of the 60-seat legislative council is directly elected.” They are calling on all Christians and […]

A good friend of mine shared with me about this book that has just come out that gives a revealing look at the life of Mao, drawing on many diverse sources. It corroborates Mao’s love of violence and says that Mao was responsible for the death of 70 million people.
This is an important […]

Josh Marshall points out the irony of how the BushAdmin experts are now saying “our job [in Iraq] appears to be almost done. ” And so when we withdraw prior to the 2006 election, it’s not “cutting and running”.
I hope the US people see through this game of charades and the BushAdmin’s […]