THE PROBLEM WITH THE PRAYER BREAKFAST

Paul McCain on why the Presidential prayer breakfast is not a good thing:Here we have people from all religions, including many Christians, falling all over themselves to be polite to the point of making specific belief, doctrine and commitment irrelevant. In other...

PAYBACK TIME?

Time magazine reported this week that evangelicals were due a little political payback for getting President Bush elected. Many Christians agree, but Chuck Colson isn’t one of them. In this commentary, he notes that political power tends to corrupt the...

JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF GOD?

Here is a good counterargument to Peggy Noonan’s opinion (see previous post) that  Bush put too much God in the inaugural speech. The Weekly Standard’s Joseph Bottum says the President was just making a strong case from natural law. I’m not so...

THIS ISN’T HEAVEN

A lot of commentators I respect really like the inaugural speech, including Chuck Colson, but I have to side with the absolutely brilliant Peggy Noonan, a former presidential speechwriter and Bush supporter. She writes that the speech left her with "a bad feeling...

POLITICS, RELIGION AND FREEDOM

President Bush raised some eyebrows with his declaration that he can’t imagine anyone serving in the Oval Office "without a relationship with the Lord"  and this Washington Times story has some interesting observations:Abraham Foxman, national...

THANKS CHRISTIANS – SEE YOU IN FOUR YEARS

As I said before the election, I was not a big fan of either presidential candidate this year. And I think the fact that conservative Christianity has become so closely affiliated with one party is a very bad development. When the church becomes just another cog in...
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