Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar 11.21.04
“My pastor kept asking us to pray for George Bush to win,” a Georgia woman told me last week, “and most folks seemed to go along with it. So I just kept quiet and secretly prayed for the other side.”
She’s not […]
By GARRY WILLS
Published: April 9, 2006
THERE is no such thing as a “Christian politics.” If it is a politics, it cannot be Christian. Jesus told Pilate: “My reign is not of this present order. If my reign were of this present order, my supporters would have fought against my being turned over to the Jews. […]
Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar 11.27.05
Taking pleasure in the pain of others isn’t the Christian thing to do. But conservative churches may be forgiven for feeling a bit of schadenfreude after the revelation this month that the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to revoke the tax-exempt […]
Advisor: McCain Believes Using Faith for Election is Wrong
Jennifer RileyGospel Herald CorrespondentThu, Apr, 17 2008 12:42 PM PT
An insider of John McCain’s campaign said the Republican nominee-in-waiting refuses to use his faith for political gains and is debating whether to speak more openly about his relationship with God.
“John McCain has an innate sense that using […]
Richard J. Mouw |
We have to decide whether we have a stingy or a generous God.
An understanding of divine generosity that inhibits us from calling sinners to bring the burden of their sin and guilt to Calvary is a denial of the gospel.
Charles Hodge was a severe critic of the theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher. […]
China’s Fall From Grace No Surprise
Yesterday | Western Sources
Former Washington-based columnist for The Hong Kong Standard, The New York Sun, and Insight on the News, an online weekly published by The Washington Times. Covered economic and political relations between the United States and East Asia, with an emphasis on China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. […]
Read more...By The Associated Press 08.17.07
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A California minister who used church stationery and an Internet radio program to endorse former Gov. Mike Huckabee for president is asking his followers to pray for the deaths of those who filed a complaint against him with the IRS.
The Rev. Wiley S. Drake of the […]
May 20th, 2007 by Michael Spencer
Several weeks ago, I removed all specific references to where I work from this web site. Without violating that, I want to tell you a story from yesterday, when our high school had its 104th graduation ceremony.
For the past 30+ years, our school has taken many internationals and children […]
As the “Countdown Clock” on Tian’anmen Square ticked backwards toward the July 1 takeover of Hong Kong, Bob Fu and his pregnant wife, Heidi, knew their time was running out, too... Learn More >
