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Buy This While You Can

It may become as valuable as Revenge of the Jedi posters . . . UPDATE: It seems that Amazon has finally taken down 19-0: The Historic Championship Season of the Unbeatable Patriots . On to eBay, I guess. . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Feb 2008

Mad About George Bush

So Mad magazine—the “usual gang of idiots”— has compiled a gaggle of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists to depict George Bush’s “support” of global warming. I await the “very special” issue of Highlights , featuring an image of the president . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Feb 2008

Getting Personal About the Holy Spirit

After reading of this blog post, about how the Holy Spirit seems to be persona non grata in most theological conversations, I was put in mind of something I read on the website of an Episcopal Church just yesterday. Second paragraph, second sentence: “allow The Spirit its due.” Its? Slip of the . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Feb 2008

Shut That Blog Down

. . . was more or less what Wade Burleson was told by the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board. Instead, he resigned as trustee. Seems Burleson had some serious issues with resolutions passed, including the prohibiting of missionaries from speaking in tongues (presumably . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Feb 2008

Horrors

This should be a reminder that the persecution of Christians is not some Roman-era tale but a daily contemporary phenomenon. For more information about three organizations dedicated to shedding light on areas of the world where converting to Christianity or living your Christian faith publicly can . . . . Continue Reading »

2 Feb 2008

Beliefnet Film Awards

Vote early, vote often . Quick take: How on earth did Atonement get on this list? Only an atheist could have concocted the daft scenario, in which “atoning for sin” entails inventing an alternate reality to ease a guilty conscience—the sinner as self-savior. That isn’t . . . . Continue Reading »

2 Feb 2008

Evangelical CofE Bishops to Africans: “Come to Lambeth”

” We shall do all we can to support our Archbishop in his immensely difficult task of developing the life of our Communion.” As several commenters here note, the two evangelical bishops associated with Wycliffe Hall were notably absent from among the signatories. From what I can gather, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2008

The Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse …

. . . is that sound you hear. Ann Coulter is willing to campaign for Hillary Clinton if John McCain is the Republican nominee. No doubt Hillary is thrilled beyond her ability to express herself. As is, I’m sure, John McCain . . . . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2008

The Silver Bullet

Over at Pajamas Media, actor Ron Silver has a blog . Silver’s TV work has run the gamut from Rhoda in the 1970s to the West Wing more recently, and in film from the serious— Silkwood, Enemies: A Love Story, and Reversal of Fortune (as Alan Dershowitz, no less)—to the goofy-sweet . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2008

RJN on Canadian TV

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recently filmed a 30-minute mini-doc on our editor-in-chief, Richard John Neuhaus. It is remarkably fair, even affirmative, and well worth your half-hour. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2008