Everything you wanted to know about dispensationalism (and its connection to the political right) but were afraid to ask.

Posted on November 9th, 2004 by admin
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How George Bush won the election As a member (at least in appearance to people who don’t know me, or read this site) of the “evangelical Christian” group, I want to respond to this: Looking out across America, what’s one of the largest groups of people with a single strongly-held set of beliefs? The evangelical […]

Posted on November 5th, 2004 by admin
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Matt had a link to the Boing Boing post about Kerry’s concession of the election, and I thought it was interesting for a couple of reasons: 1. Boing Boing had been quite silent today about the election, after numerous posts yesterday. 2. I think the bit they quoted from Dan Gilmour was right on the […]

Posted on November 3rd, 2004 by admin
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Eleven states had same-sex union amendments on their ballots, and in every one of those states, the voters rejected allowing them. The most surprising? Oregon, typically a hotbed of civil liberties and left-leaning political opinions.

Posted on November 3rd, 2004 by admin
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Predictably, we don’t have an “official” winner in the presidential race, but one candidate has a nice lead in the popular vote and just needs to win Ohio to seal his re-election. Of course, it won’t be that simple, as officials in Ohio are saying it could take up to 11 days to count the […]

Posted on November 3rd, 2004 by admin
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A friend, who is involved with our little “church and culture” discussion group, mentioned he had just read an interesting article for another group he’s involved with — THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF OUR ECOLOGICAL CRISIS by Lynn White, Jr. This piece, written in 1967, places much of the blame for the ever-growing abuse of the […]

Posted on November 1st, 2004 by admin
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Yesterday, my father-in-law preached on Psalm 2 as it relates to our upcoming election. The basic idea? If you’re a Christian, don’t get so worked up about it. Don’t forget who’s behind the wheel of this thing. If the candidate you didn’t support wins, it probably won’t be enough to trigger the End Times. And […]

Posted on November 1st, 2004 by admin
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The Japery has an interesting column about the Christian tendancy toward single issue voting. I really only want to comment on the last paragraph: Abortion, properly understood by pagans and religionists alike, pertains to end of life “issues,” like euthanasia; genetic meddling on all kinds of life; the proper limits of the state; economic and […]

Posted on October 30th, 2004 by admin
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Why are religious conservatives still the squeaky wheels? Great points brought forth in this article. Thanks to the Christian Right, if you say you’re a Christian, you’re branded as a close-minded political conservative, which, for a lot of us, just isn’t the case. But don’t just blame the Religious Right and the, ahem, left-leaning media […]

Posted on October 28th, 2004 by admin
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Slate has a interesting article on whether or not George Bush is the right posterboy for evangelical Christians. A couple of key passages: By most accounts, the president’s basic intellectual make-up was formed long before his faith conversion. If Bush is incurious, it’s not God’s fault. That is, don’t excuse Bush’s ignorance (which he will […]

Posted on October 27th, 2004 by admin
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