The Religious Right’s Quest to Reclaim America

The Don Johnson Show, 4-16-05 Last week we talked about Christians who aren’t concerned with following the rules of their faith. This week we talk about the other extreme – those who are overly focused on the rules. We discuss the goal of many Christians...

THE SORRY STATE OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH

As we discussed on Saturday’s show, the trend in American Christianity is to produce "followers" who simply don’t follow. A large percentage of Christians openly disregard the plain moral teachings of their church. Catholic Pat Buchanan and...

The Sorry State of American Christianity

The Don Johnson Show, 4-9-05 One of the major stories surrounding the Pope’s death was the fact that a large percentage of American Catholics don’t follow the churches teachings. This trend isn’t confined to Catholics, as a large percentage of...

CONSERVATIVE THEOLOGY AND PROGRESSIVE POLITICS

Much of the press coverage of the Pope’s death has centered on two areas:  his hatred of communism and his ultra conservative Catholicism. Most reporters hail the former but seem mystified by the latter, seeing it as the Pope’s main weaknesses and...

TRUSTING IN GOVERNMENT POWER?

Marvin Olasky posts these thoughts by Jordon Bailor regarding the disturbing trend among evangelicals to "use political power to impose external standards of morality." I think they are definitely worth a read.Christian activists need to be wary of falling...

SPIRITUALITY FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS

Eugene Peterson gives a great interview in the latest Christianity Today. The whole article is good, but I found this section particularly applicable to some of our recent discussion:Q: This corruption of the word spirituality even in Christian circles—does it have...
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