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A son repents

January 14, 2008 2 Comments

Francis Schaeffer was a deep evangelical thinker whose mission was to save the West from itself one intellectual at a time. His son, Frank, took him mainstream bringing his father’s work together with the agenda and ambitions of American fundamentalism. Together they helped create what we now know as the religious right. That was then. Through a combination of what might be called religious and celebrity burn-out, raising a family and deep introspection, Frank Schaeffer says he has repented of nearly everything the American Religious Right stands for.

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Some purpose-driven humor

January 13, 2008 1 Comment

Devout Christians–especially evangelicals–are dull, and have no sense of humor. Right? In a daily effort to prove this assumption wrong, LarkNews is the Onion for the Christian faithful.

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Religious Democrats write the pollsters

January 13, 2008 1 Comment

In response to exit polls in Iowa that asked Republicans numerous questions about their religious beliefs, but asked Democratic voters nothing about their faith, several religous leaders, including Joel Hunter, David Neff, Jim Wallis and Brian McClaran have written an open letter to media political and polling directors.

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The moral instinct

January 13, 2008 3 Comments

We all know what it feels like when the moralization switch flips inside us — the righteous glow, the burning dudgeon, the drive to recruit others to the cause. Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University has an essay in today’s New York Times Magazine on the science of the moral instinct–and the philisophical implicationss of that science–that is well worth a read.

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A new generation honors Dr. King

January 12, 2008 No Comments

On January 21, Washington National Cathedral and young people throughout the area will honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by asking, “What would Dr. King’s platform be for the next U.S. president?”

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The lost art of cooperation

January 12, 2008 3 Comments

Whatever we make of it, today competition dominates our ideology, shapes our cultural attitudes, and sanctifies our market economy as never before. We are living in an age that prizes competition and demeans cooperation, an era more narcissistic than the Gilded Age, more hubristic than the age of Jackson. Competition ­rules.

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Is he or isn’t he?

January 12, 2008 6 Comments

Bishop Schofield appears uncertain whether or not to claim that he is a member of the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church.

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Image problem

January 12, 2008 No Comments

Almost three-quarters of Americans who haven’t darkened the door of a church in the last six months think it is “full of hypocrites,” and even more of them consider Christianity to be more about organized religion than about loving God and people, according to a new survey. Almost half those surveyed–44 percent–agreed that “Christians get on my nerves.”

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Stem cells: controversy averted?

January 12, 2008 1 Comment

The Los Angeles Times reports: Scientists reported Thursday that for the first time they have made human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos, a development that the government’s top stem cell official said would make the controversial research eligible for federal funding.

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What does “moral values” mean?

January 12, 2008 No Comments

Political commentators and journalists often use the phrase “moral values” to mean the issues of importance to some conservatives and members of the “Christian Right”, issues such as abortion, gay rights, same-sex marriage and stem cell research. In fact, when the public uses the phrase, only a few people are referring to these issues.

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