In an interview with a Nevada editorial board, Barack Obama did something rather unique for Democrats, praising and associating himself with Ronald Reagan. From Politico blogger Ben Smith: “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not, and a
Three different GOP winners in three different races, and now Romney is being hailed as the front-runner. But he may be. Remember that these primaries and caucuses are not sporting events, despite the way they are treated by the press. Someone might “win” with 39%
Here is an interesting story about a Lutheran pastor who played a key role in the overthrow of communism in East Germany. That country, with its bloody and seemingly omnipresent secret police, the Stasi, was probably more hard-core than the former Soviet Union. The Reuters
FW wrote this comment on yesterday’s witnessing post: I literally got goosebumps reading this post. I daily am forced in my vocation ( ok i am a sinner and do few things that are NOT self centered by choice) to deal with and witness to
Thanks to Frank Sonnek for alerting me to this piece by literary critic Stanley Fish, trying to figure out what the value is of literary study. He begins with a fine reading of some lines from George Herbert, and he nails Herbert’s Reformation emphasis on
An Iranian filmmaker has made a movie depicting the life of Jesus according to Islam. The film, “Jesus, the Spirit of God” depicts Him as a prophet, not as the incarnate God, and it denies that He was actually crucified. According to the movie and
I wasn’t really planning to get into American Idol again, but here I am. I’ll live-blog it: Not stories! They are doing to a talent show what they did to the Olympics, giving all this human-interest background so we’ll get involved with the characters rather
Related to yesterday’s post on people looking to their Christ-likeness for the assurance of their salvation is the insistence that I keep hearing that the best witness to the Gospel is the example of our lives. You know, all that “use words only if necessary,”
Dr. Rod Rosenbladt’s classic presentation for people who have been ground down and chewed up by their experience in the church, “The Gospel for Those Broken by the Church,” is available as a downloadable MP3 file from New Reformation Press. Click here. HT: Internetmonk, on
The Clintons are pulling some racial jui-jitsu on Barack Obama, using a different racial argument through the mouths of establishment black leaders (see below). The argument is that Obama is “the Great White Hope.” That is, a “safe” black man that will assuage white people’s
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