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\"FrancisSchaeffer\"1. Have you heard of the Lausanne movement?<\/a> They\u2019re gearing up for the 2010 conference in Cape Town, South Africa.\u00a0 John Stott, Billy Graham, and Francis Schaeffer were heavily involved in the 1974 gathering<\/a>.\u00a0 Sounds pretty cool.<\/p>\n

2. Weekly Standard <\/em>writer Noemie Emery spells out the recent troubles of our nation\u2019s president.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a key slice of her commentary:<\/p>\n

These are the five contradictions to Barack Obama that have misled the public, without the intent to deceive. He does have a complex, exotic, and intriguing background; he did rise by his gifts from inauspicious beginnings; he does have a genuinely moderate temperament (it is not possible to lie for this long about one\u2019s personality); and it is hardly his doing that being biracial\u2013a net minus when he was born at the start of the civil rights movement\u2013had, by the time he was running for president, turned into a tactical plus.<\/p>\n

But these things, which were true, were not the whole story. His background was wide, but his political world was remarkably limited; his early years were hard, but his political rise was too easy and effortless; his temperament was cool, but his agenda was otherwise; and in a number of areas he appealed at the same time to quite different people, whose desires were wholly opposed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

3. David Brooks excoriates talk-show personalities like Glenn Beck of the conservative movement<\/a> and calls for new leadership in the movement.\u00a0 He makes some good points, I think.<\/p>\n

4. The town of Lodi, California will continue to invoke the Lord\u2019s blessing on their meetings<\/a>.\u00a0 Good to hear.<\/p>\n

5. What is it like to attend a prep-school while living in the American inner-city<\/a>?\u00a0 Here\u2019s a look from the NYT Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

6. Wonderful news: apparently, abortion support rates are falling \u201csharply,\u201d <\/a>according to CNN.\u00a0 Let\u2019s pray for much, much more of this.<\/p>\n

\u2013Have a great weekend, all.<\/p>\n

(Image of Francis Schaeffer: VCY<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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