The Anti-Manichaeist

Recent events show that the cultural wars political issues of Abortion and Homosexual Marriages are being cultivated to be wedge issues for this coming year’s election.  We cannot allow this to happen.  It is not enough to argue for a biblically-balanced approach like what Ron Sider and ESA did during the last election.  This is […]

Dan Froomkin at the Wapo writes
President Bush now says his 2004 victory over Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who is mulling a comeback in 2008, was inadvertently aided by al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

Josh Marshall quotes Peter Galbraith’s concise, crisp summary of why Bush is a miserable failure as president. 

Much of the Iraq fiasco can be directly attributed to Bush’s shortcomings as a leader. Having decided to invade Iraq, he failed to make sure there was adequate planning for the postwar period. He never settled bitter policy disputes among […]

The WaPo show how things have headed south recently for Bush, particularly re:his handling of Iraq and that the main bright spot for Bush is that he could be viewed as badly as Cheney.  “The poll found that 46 percent hold a negative view of Cheney and 18 percent hold a favorable view, down from […]

Iran’s president said Monday that his country supports calls for making the Middle East a nuclear arms-free zone, but he also urged the United States and Russia to give up all their atomic weapons as a threat to the region’s stability.
In a session with journalists, Ahmadinejad was asked about calls from the United States, Kuwait […]

One of my brother’s in Christ is Big Chris, a Conservative Reformed Baptist who used to interact with me a bit over at my old blog.  Big Chris has posted recently parts of a letter he received from Focus on the Family on how the US Senate is scheduled to take up the Marriage Protection Amendment on […]

Today, Gary Dorrien spoke more about Progressive and Liberal Theology.  He made the difference between the two, allowing that Progressive Theology was more broad than Liberal Theology.  He frames the prevalent conflict as between Progressive forms of Christianity and Orthodoxies that resist changes.  He believes the future of Christianity lies with Progressive Christianity, of course […]

Tonight I attended with my high school biology teacher an incredible sermon by the Church Historian and int’l manipulations rhetorical analyst Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. 

As I mentioned a while back, there is a group called Soul Force, that is going to be visting my alma mater, Bethel University as part of it’s equality ride.  One of the people organizing this ride, David Durand, posted a comment at this blog and I wrote him a brief letter, where I expressed my […]

Thanks to the encouragement of Ron Sider of the Evangelicals for Social Action, I just signed up with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and would like to encourage you to do the same.  We need to trust God to provide for our security and turn away from the support of the use of torture.  An […]