Friday, June 20th, 2008
Separate This, IRS…
More churches and pastors are deliberately challenging federal tax laws prohibiting the promotion of political candidates from the pulpit:
[When Pastor Gus] Booth addressed the members of his Warroad Community Church one Sunday in May and told them, “If you are a Christian, you cannot support a candidate like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for president,” [...]
15 Comments » - Posted in First Amendment, politics, religion by ME
Monday, May 19th, 2008
I Think the Technical Term for This is ‘Blasphemy’
But what do I know… I’m not a theologian, I’m a political scientist.
[Georgia] State GOP chair: McCain ‘kind of like Jesus’
Columbus — Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said Saturday that the party’s presumed presidential nominee has a lot in common with Jesus Christ.
“John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross,” Everhart [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in John McCain, religion by ME
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Jim Wallis
I went to Little Rock yesterday for a short presentation by Jim Wallis, founder and editor of Sojourners magazine.
Wallis was in town as part of a book tour to promote his newest book, The Great Awakening. Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America and the event was co-sponsored by the Clinton School of [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in Harding University, politics, religion by ME
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Good Question
One of the things we’ll learn from the exit polls in North Carolina and Indiana tomorrow is the answer to the all-important question: Do voters really care about the pronouncements of Barack Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright?
A related question, posed by E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post, asks: Do white right-wing preachers have it easier [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in politics, religion by ME
Monday, April 28th, 2008
God Bless Our Walled City
Several years ago, I participated in a weekend exercise with a group of high school students at a church in Nashville designed to teach us something about global poverty.
We fasted, prayed together and read stories that were intended to get us to think more seriously about poverty and how Christians should respond to it.
I still [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in America, poverty, religion by ME
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Politics: Bringing Out the Worst in Christians for 1,975 Years
Mike Cope opened the floodgates at his blog yesterday by suggesting that there are a lot of people who hate Hillary Clinton and he isn’t one of them.
Good for Mike. It takes a lot of guts for a preacher in our fellowship to state publicly that he respects someone who is vilified as often [...]
14 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Christians, politics, religion by ME
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Yeah, But Can He Sing 728B DCCXXVIIIB in Latin?
I wasted a good portion of my youth arguing with my numerous Catholic friends about religion.
They all should know now that much of my youthful angst was the product of pure jealousy. After all, my Catholic friends had all those ethno-religious holidays to celebrate every year and all I had was Vacation Bible School and [...]
20 Comments » - Posted in Church of Christ, religion, travel by ME
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Reason #4,231 Why the Secular World Thinks Christians are Nuts
Carmen: Satan Bites the Dust.
h/t: tj
7 Comments » - Posted in Christians, music, religion by ME
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Stop ME If You’ve Heard This One
I’ve been trying to decide if the following joke is anti-semitic or anti-anti-semitic.
If it’s anti-semitic, I’ll never repeat it again but if it’s anti-anti-semitic I’ll keep it in the joke file.
I first read it in Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar…
Two Jewish guys pass a Catholic church. A sign out front says “Convert [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in humor, religion by ME
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#125)
A new religous war appears to be breaking out in Europe: Darth Vader has attacked the founder of the Jedi church.
Barney Jones, 36, known in the Jedi church as Jedi Master “Jonba Hehol” was filming a TV interview in his backyard when a man dressed as Darth Vader jumped his fence and assaulted him.
The [...]
