The Anti-Manichaeist

This is a longer post that weaves together themes dealing with Christianity and Political Change. As I understand it, Romans 13 deals with obedience/submission to existing laws/ authorities, not whether Christians may participate in changes in laws/authorities or their administration, provided such participation does not require apostasy or interfere with their mandate to overcome evil with good. 
Though, I […]

Heaven and Earth was kind enough to update me about what’s going on in the controversy over whether the People’s Republic of China had been harvesting organs for profit from their Falun Gong religious dissidents.  He also provided the link to the Falun Data Information center. 
It seems a well respected critic of the PRoChina gov’t, […]

I just found out from Sojourners about life-long nonviolent activist and respected scholar, David Cortright’s book “Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism“.  Cortright is a cofounder of The Center for Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation.  It is “a nonpartisan research and policy institute that works to improve internationally coordinated responses to the continually evolving […]

Nouriel Roubini is currently alone among macro-forecasters, but he is very well qualified and what he says does makes sense.  

This is an important precedent. 
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was sentenced to nine years in prison and fined $10 million in a US court on Friday after being convicted in 2004 of extortion and money laundering.
…

Christians in Politics is a British Christian Organization.  It is a joint initiative of the recognised Christian groups in the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties. They, despite their political differences, respect each other’s political involvement and want to encourage more Christians - and other people of goodwill, committed to the common good - into […]

To see that one need only Google News Search Philippines and “Human Rights”.  You get 992 hits.  Now, let’s say we google search “New Zealand” and “Human Rights”, you get 603 hits and the top ones are about the human rights of transexuals or whether parents can authorize schools so they can “strap” their children.  […]

Check out his interview on the Conan O’Brien show.
See here for an interview where he reveals that he is a devout Catholic.  Here’s the best part, when asked
You created The Daily Show religious-satire segment, “This Week in God.” How do you square your Catholicism with comedy?

NT Scholar Ben Witherington tells the story of the King James Version and its antecedents.  It’s a good read and shows how the spread of the Word of God has long had political implications. 

According to a recent article, the 1% initial victory margin of Conservative Mexican presidential candidate Felipe Calderon was quickly reduced to a .58% lead after a recount of 2.2% of the vote.  Now, they are doing a recount of 9% of the vote and there is an Orange Ukraine-style protesters in Mexico City.  The leftist candidate Lopez Obrador […]