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The Conservatism and Service-Orientation of Authentic Christianity (Vital Signs Blog)

noreply@blogger.com (Denny Hartford) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:22:00 GMT

Will Hall is the executive editor of Baptist Press and he's got a terrific column here contrasting the rhetoric of liberal neo-evangelical Democrats like Jim Wallis, Brian McLaren, and Tony Campolo with the "real deal" issues of what the Bible teaches and how conservative evangelicals (esp. the Southern Baptists) have, for a long, long time, acted upon those teachings. A good piece about matters that...

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How Simple Should Christianity Be? (Glory to God for All Things)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:39:22 GMT

There is a tendency in our modern world to make things as simple as possible. We hide the complexities behind a keyboard (I don’t know how my computer works - or not very well) or we treat things that seem complex as unnecessary obfuscations. This same drive to simplify was very much alive in the 16th century as Christianity underwent reform in many places of the world. Thomas Cranmer, the English...

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"Constantine's Sword": A pointed look at Christianity and anti-Semitism (Seattle Times)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:10:07 GMT

... can be.The film's title reflects the belief of its co-writers, Oren Jacoby and James Carroll, that Christianity was essentially nonviolent until it was adopted as the state religion by the emperor Constantine. Later came the Crusades, Pope-approved Jewish ghettos, the Inquisition, other atrocities and the Vatican's silence during the Holocaust.The filmmakers visit Auschwitz, Rome and Jerusalem;...

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Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity From Darwin to Intelligent Design (Red Orbit )

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:00:19 GMT

By Day, Matthew doi: 10.1017/S0009640708000863 Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design. By Peter Bowler. New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. x + 258 pp. $24.95 cloth.

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Orissa Simmering: Persecution Continues with the goal of wiping out Christianity from Orissa (Anglican Mainstream)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:32:46 GMT

The fundamentalist group are going from village to village destroying Churches, burning houses, attacking and killing Christians. It is reported that thousands of extremists have been brought from Gujarat and Chhattisgarh to perpetrate this violence which has spread to all the districts of Orissa. Their agenda is to wipe out Chrisitians and Christianity from India [...]

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Christianity Today's Bland Interview with Pro-Life Democrat (NewsBusters)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:43:55 GMT

Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as pro-life Democrats. And yes, there are some in Denver at the party's nominating convention, even if the mainstream media don't interview them. Christianity Today has found a few and has been covering them at the magazine's CTPolitics blog. But if you are looking for tough questions, you won't find them from staffer Sarah Pulliam in her interview with...

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the shrinking mind of christianity.... (the Weary Pilgrim)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:01:01 GMT

... the reality of what is " In Christ." Do we grasp the cosmic reality of that truth. A deteriorating christianity sees us, the individual and understands what that is to be " in Christ." But fails to see the redemptive imagination of " Christ in Everything." Bateson in the last ten years of his life wrestled with a most pressing question. " What is the pattern that connects?" What connects...

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Democrats don’t know Christianity (Sibby Online)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:26:34 GMT

Cory Heidelberger is proof of this: Denver Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput says Democrats simply don't know Christianity if they insist on continuing to spin the Bible's teachings on abortion. "It's always important to know what our faith actually teaches," he...

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Mus'ab Hassan Yousef, Son of a West Bank Hamas Leader: Atrocities Committed by Hamas Led Me to Convert to Christianity (Memri Latest Blogs)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:29:18 GMT

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Politico reports MN's Pawlenty not likely VP choice (SWAC Girl)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:05:00 GMT

Politico is breaking it this morning that Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty will not be in Dayton, OH, today but at the MN State Fair instead. "I'm going to be at the [Minnesota] state fair," Pawlenty said on WCCO just minutes ago. "I will not be in Dayton, Ohio, so I think that's a fair assumption," he added in an interview with the Twin Cities radio station, when asked if this was an indication that...

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Colorado congresswoman Diana DeGette: GOP made insulting assumption about women (Right Mind)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:55:06 GMT

From the Denver Post : Colorado congresswoman Diana DeGette said Friday that John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate is an insult because it signals that he thinks putting a woman on the ticket means "women would suddenly vote for him." The Democratic representative from Denver also said Palin, a first-term governor and former small-town mayor, doesn't have the experience...

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DeGette: GOP Made Insulting Assumption About Women (cbs4denver.com: National Politics)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:30:06 GMT

Colorado congresswoman Diana DeGette said Friday that John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate is an insult because it signals that he thinks putting a woman on the ticket means "women would suddenly vote for him."

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Passing along an inaccurate statistic (Bradley Wright's Weblog)

noreply@blogger.com (Brad Wright) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:15:00 GMT

(Part 3 in a series) In this series, I am tracking the creation and transformation of a statistic about Christianity. My goal in doing so is not to harp on this particular statistic but rather to show the various social processes that go into presenting information about Christianity to the public. The next big mention of this statistic came in Christine Wicker’s 2008 book The Fall of...

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Anti-Christian Violence Continues In Eastern India (Religion Clause)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:05:00 GMT

Reuters reported yesterday that anti-Christian violence by Hindu mobs in India's eastern state of Orissa continues as Pope Benedict XVI condemned the violence and Italy's foreign ministry said it would summon India's ambassador to demand "incisive action" to end the violence. As further detailed in a Christian World News report on Wednesday, the violence against Christians began after the murder of...

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among the sea turtles (Blood & Treasure)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:13:42 GMT

There’s a general assumption that the students who travel abroad from China will come back inspired by the majesty of democracy, freedom and all that good stuff with a burning desire to change China. Given the considerable risks to life...

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TPaw Out? (The Hotline on Call)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:17:40 GMT

MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty tells a MN radio station that he won't be in OH today and that it's a "fair assumption" he didn't get the nod.

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CA1: First disses brief (Appellate Law & Practice)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:02:30 GMT

Kurniawan v. Mukasey, No. 07-2421 (8/28/08) (unpublished). This denies the petition fore review of an Indonesian Muslim that converted to Christianity. The First writes:He argues that the persecution he suffered in Indonesia, in conjunction with the 2005 Country Report on...

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Short-Lived McCain Veep Speculation (The Plank)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:19:00 GMT

If you're following this story on the internet, it's pretty crazy. There's constant speculation, definitive-sounding leads, contenders ruled out, ruled back in, ruled out again, with darkhouse names coming in and out. The assumption is that the McCain camp is doing a great job of hiding a secret (and stepping on the Obama convention story.) But maybe they really don't know who it is yet? (As of, say,...

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News: The Woods, Part Three (Penny-Arcade)

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Tycho : I really want to hire a professional someday to take a look at the comics we've made, and tell me in definitive terms what is wrong with us. Most mentions of Guitar Praise: Solid Rock have a kind of smarmy, nudge-you-with-the-elbow vibe to make sure that you know that they know Christianity is not cool. It may not be cool, but it is cold, as in cold, hard, motherfucking cash, because...

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Don’t blame Islam for extremists’ actions (International News (I.N. Daily))

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:46:14 GMT

Condemning religion for sins of a few would be like faulting Christianity for Hitler Mobashar Jawed (M.J.) Akbar Ottawa Citizen Friday, August 29, 2008 http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news The 21st century has given us almost everything we could dream of, but it forgot to give us peace. Peace is impossible without understanding, and understanding needs dialogue. Dialogue, [...]

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