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Day: October 18, 2008

CBN and the Democrats

October 18, 2008 No Comments

David Brody, Washington correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network, has interviewed many people during his coverage of campaign 2008. As keynote speaker at the Baptist Press Collegiate Journalism conference awards banquets last weekend, he made special note of how the climate has changed for democrats at the network. Brody has interviewed numerous Democrats, part of their “strategy” to address “values voters,” says a Scripps Howard article, but Brody never questions their authenticity, he says.

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Riding a spiritual wave

October 18, 2008 2 Comments

Here’s a new take on observing the Feast of St. Francis, in case you’d rather spend it at the beach. With 6- to 10-foot waves crashing down behind them, two Catholic priests led some 400 interfaith worshipers in a “Blessing of the Waves” at Huntington Beach.

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Duncan goes to England

October 18, 2008 2 Comments

In England yesterday, former Pittsburgh bishop Bob Duncan urged British traditionalists to be ever-vigilant lest what happened to him happen to them. He is touting his deposition as a cause célèbre which should give all conservatives pause as to their own status and a sign that the center of Anglican Communion will move outside of England.

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Evangelicals in the newsroom: If not, why?

October 18, 2008 1 Comment

The media — journalism — remain one of the hardest fields for them to realize their power. Many evangelical journalists start out in secular news organizations but they soon join Christian media that offer an environment more accepting of their beliefs.

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Warmth, metaphorical and otherwise

October 18, 2008 No Comments

When I think of the warmth of the oven as the bread comes out, or of the pleasure I’ve taken by a warm fireplace, or in that first cup of coffee on a cool morning, I have my own empirical sense that the connection works both ways. That sense of warmth, of comfort and safety, contributes to my own experience that “all’s right with the world,” including my own place in it. I wonder what that might mean for our congregations.

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Physician and evangelist

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Luke, which is a familiar form of Lucius, was a Gentile, a physician, and a close friend of Paul (Col. 4:10ff.), a fellow worker with Paul (Phlm. 24), and a companion of Paul’s in prison, probably in Rome (2 Tim. 4:11). Greek was obviously his native tongue, as his language is flawless Koine, the common Greek of the time (which was much less sophisticated than the language of Homer and the great philosophers).

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