In reading about this Episcopal priest in Seattle who recently announced her conversion to Islam — and her belief that there's no conflict between her newfound religion and her day job as a Christian clergywoman — I found myself shocked, and strangely furious.  (more…) Read more

Extremists are everywhere.  In the past week the world has witnessed the extremism of Hamas in Gaza, knowing that every act of extremism places resolution further away. (more…) Read more

Gary Bauer wrote a response to the Sojourners faith forum entitled, “The Religious Left Still Doesn’t Get Christians.”   There are so many things wrong with this piece that I’m not sure where to start.  I’ll go through a few of his more egregious comments one by one.     1)  The first problem is the headline: “The Religious Left Still Doesn’t Get Christians.”  Is there a dichotomy between the two?  What about the many Christians who are part of the... Read more

As for calamities, what God could and should do to His people who are living the American Dream life of prosperity and success while claiming the cross of Jesus Christ ought to shake these Tele-Zionists in their boots… (more…) Read more

According to the polling information, the people of America perceive themselves to be awakening to a foundation crumbling from moral decay…Whether this will lead to another "Great Awakening" of real faith remains to be seen…   (more…) Read more

Rev. Rob Schenck of the National Clergy Council leveled below-the-belt broadsides against the leading Democratic presidential candidates after their faith-focused forum last week.  He kept to the passé script about abortion and homosexuality being litmus test issues.  I called Rev. Schenck’s press contact, Dane Rose, to ask for clarification on these attacks.  Predictably, I never heard back.   Here are the questions I was going to ask Rev. Schenck (or his handler) if he were willing to engage someone who... Read more

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There has been some hemming and hawing in the blogosphere over the faith-based forum that the leading Democratic presidential candidates engaged in last night.    Andrew Sullivan ripped into the “faith-off” as “a spectacle at once spiritually crass, politically vulgar and democratically corrosive.”   Debra Haffner — a religious progressive whom I greatly respect — lamented that “secular CNN gave two hours to covering a program primarily aimed at evangelical Christians and implicitly promoting the idea that personal faith practices... Read more

Lead by example, yes; lead by self-sacrificing love, yes; lead by apartheid, no!  (more…) Read more