May 07 2008
Glen Greenwald has a powerful post today concerning the presidential election and the Catholic vote. Prompted by some on the right who, commenting on the Indiana precinct where a group of 80- and 90-yearold nuns were not able to vote for lack of sufficient identification, asked what the nuns were doing voting for Obama or Clinton in [...]
May 03 2008
This coming week a group of influential American evangelical leaders will be releasing An Evangelical Manifesto that is critical of some current attempts to blend evangelical faith with politics. Notably, James Dobson and some other prominent evangelical leaders are not signatories, and this reflects a debate within the movement as to how far and for [...]
Jan 18 2007
Last Sunday, my pastor Russ Peterman gave an excellent sermon that demonstrated how we as Americans have the power and financial means to eradicate hunger in the world and do a host of other good deeds, like provide a basic education or clean water to all. Yesterday, The New York Times ran a similar article [...]
Jan 12 2007
The school board in the south Seattle suburb of Federal Way (home, it should noted, of logging giant Weyerhaeuser) has restricted showings of An Inconvenient Truth, imposing requirements that it be balanced with an adequate opposing viewpoint and be shown only with the school principal and district superintendent’s approval.
The decision was apparently sparked by complaints from parents [...]
Jan 03 2007
Pat Robertson is reporting that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in “mass killing” late in 2007.
“I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during his television show The 700 Club. “The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like [...]
Jan 02 2007
Time has an interesting article on the faith of Gerald Ford and how it may have influenced his decision to pardon Richard Nixon. The article also touches on how Ford refused to discuss, or, in his view, exploit, his faith during the 1976 campaign against Jimmy Carter.
While I think Jerry Ford was a right president at the [...]
Dec 16 2006
Today’s New York Times reports on the continuing struggle within the Episcopal church in the United States over the issue of homosexuality. After consecrating an openly-gay bishop last year and electing a woman as its head this year, some conservative churches are voting to remove their parishes from the national church and align with dioceses [...]
Dec 15 2006
As Hanukkah begins Friday night, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and synagogues around the nation are urging congregants to use energy-efficient light bulbs.
This Jewish response to global warming, dubbed “How Many Jews Does it Take to Screw in a Light Bulb” by COEJL, gives new meaning to the Festival [...]
Dec 07 2006
As one long involved in men’s ministries and as one who once delivered a sermon entitled “When Testosterone is No Longer Enough,” I knew I’d be interested in the front-page article by Jenny Jarvie and Stephanie Simon in today’s Los Angeles Times “Manliness is Next to Godliness.” Convinced that men are dodging church because it saps [...]
