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• Sharon Watkins and the President

  
  Ponderings on a Faith Journey — Authority: 443
  What role should religion play in public life? And what kind of person is best suited to be present in such a conversation.   My hope is that the faith leaders who are active in public life will be both willing to speak truth to power and act with sufficient humility so as not to demand that their views be heard.  ...
  8 hours ago

• Music as politics

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 481
  I graduated from high school in 1964. The music I bought and played obsessively was "folk music" by groups like the Kingston Trio, the Chad Mitchell Trio, Peter, Paul & Mary and the New Christie Minstrels. I was offended when older people I worked with at the local museum rather contemptuously, I thought, ...
  1 day ago

• Reaction caused by ignorance

  
  Sze Zeng — Authority: 127
  After the Malaysias high court announced that Allah is not exclusive to Muslims disposal, 250 UMNO Youth members who supposedly are Muslims protested in front of the high court in Penang by shouting "seditious obscenities". Previously Ive posted that, "only those who are affected are legally, semantically, and ...
  2 days ago

• Government of the people, by the people and for the people

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 481
  One of the lessons of modern history is that democratic nations seldom [almost never] engage in war with one another . The prospect of peace among nations would probably be a sufficient non-ideological, pragmatic, reason to promote democracy in the world, even if there were no others. But, of course there are other ...
  3 days ago

• NEWS: Most People Live in Countries that Restrict Religion

  
  Religion Compass Exchanges — Authority: 121
  According to a recent Pew Forum, nearly seventy percent of the world’s population live in countries with religious restrictions. According to the study, about one-third of the world’s nations can be classified as having a high level of restriction on religions, but these nations make up some of the globe’s most ...
  4 days ago

• World Order, Administrative Order

  
  Sen McGlinn's blog — Authority: 103
  " Are the friends not reading my letters? " I can imagine how sad Shoghi Effendi sounded when he said that. Its not the comment of a proud author miffed at being ignored, but of a man who knows he has provided the clear explanations that will help the friends to understand their own faith, and sees them instead ...
  4 days ago

• Unto the least of these

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 481
  St. Augustine warned Christians against becoming so attached to a particular interpretation of Genesis that, if that interpretation is discredited, the faith itself is brought into question: In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very ...
  4 days ago

• 2010 Gives Birth To New Supernatural Thriller Call BLESSED

  
  Your Story — Authority: 522
  From Mississippi native C. A. Webb comes a new supernatural thriller that combines religion and politics in a serial novel that asks the question: What are you willing to do in order to protect those that you love?
  6 days ago

• Reason and free choice or amorality and determinism

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 481
  I have enjoyed and profited from reading Robert P. George in First Things and elsewhere. He was one of the moving forces behind the Manhattan Declaration uniting many Evangelicals, Orthodox and Catholics in support of a limited number of moral non-negotiables. This past Sunday The New York Times Magazine" ...
  1 week ago

• Is Northern Nigeria A Failed Region?

  
  Thy Glory O Nigeria..! — Authority: 125
  Adeola Aderounmu. There have been reported clashes in Bauchi State in Northern Nigeria. A non-conformist Islamic group had been on the rampage and clashed with security agents. No doubts there have been ominous signs from Northern Nigeria since Mr. Obasanjo allowed the creation of Sharia States in Nigeria. Nigeria ...
  1 week ago

• The Religious Right

  
  One Eternal Day — Authority: 481
  In the Fall, 2009 issue of the Claremont Review of Books , Jean Bethke Elshtain reviews [behind a subscription wall] The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right , a book whose findings ought to [but will not] allay the fears of those alarmed by the plotting of "Christianists" — those supposedly intent on ...
  1 week ago

• A Christmas Greeting for Liberals and A Greeting for Conservatives

  
  Reasoned Audacity — Authority: 121
  Alert Reader Terry, one of the sharpest lawyers in DC, sends this along, To My Liberal Friends: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, ...
  1 week ago

• Samuel West, Calvinism, and the Big Tent

  
  American Creation — Authority: 487
  With Thanks to Jonathan Rowe For Editorial Suggestions. Following up on my last post , I study more from Jeffry H. Morrisons paper entitled, " Political Theology in the Declaration of Independence ." Lets focus more on the sermon by Samuel West that Morrison discusses in his paper. In the passage reproduced ...
  1 week ago

• Christians for War at Christmas

  
  Doug Bandow — Authority: 134
  One of the stranger aspects of modern evangelicalism is the tendency of many leading theologically conservative Christians to support war.  And not as a last resort reluctantly employed to protect American society.  But to engage in international social engineering, often with little benefit to the U.S. society, ...
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• Politicians must be held accountable

  
  Sze Zeng — Authority: 127
  Too often citizens demand accountability from their politicians only during their administrative period. After the politicians office is over, the public seldom pursue further. But the right way to do politics is to hold the politicians accountable for what he has done during his time even after he has resigned, ...
  2 weeks ago

• When the God Squad Loses

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 126
  Let’s stipulate that those who are religious take their religion seriously. Why else would they believe in whatever it is they believe in? You don’t pray to a hypothetical god, who may or may not exist, who is hypothetically benevolent, when he remembers to be nice, or wrathful when he remembers to get angry. He ...
  2 weeks ago

• Calvin, Ponnet, and Deposing Tyrants

  
  American Creation — Authority: 487
  Jon Rowe stated the following in his last post about Romans 13: " Another authentic expression of orthodox Trinitarian political theology is that Romans 13 gives guidelines for rulers, but ultimately demands submission to government no matter WHO is in power, even if pagan tyrants. This was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Just war is the last and best, among the rest, resort?

  
  Sze Zeng — Authority: 127
  Obamas recent Nobel Prize speech is the latest advocacy for just war. He paid tributes to Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. for their non-violent engagements. Then he reckoned that he as " a head of state sworn to protect and defend [his] nation, [he] cannot be guided by their examples alone. [He] face[s] the world ...
  2 weeks ago

• John Adams and Romans 13

  
  American Creation — Authority: 487
  In a se ries of posts I have attempted to ignite a discussion about whether Christian ideas helped shape America and bring us into the modern world with the following questions: Which Christian ideas, if any, helped bring us into the modern world? And ...
  2 weeks ago

• Washington University Receives $30 Million for Center on Religio...

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 150
  The grant from the Danforth Foundation will establish and endow the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, which will convene public conferences and lectures to address local, state, and national issues related to religion and politics....
  2 weeks ago

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