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• Re: Representing the constituency

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:13 am

  Tags: Marriage Family, Politics Government, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  Commenters Sy and Beth have been debating what my point was in this post -- specifically, whether I thought John Edwards came off looking good or bad -- and have asked me to weigh in. Glad to oblige. :-) In fact, my point had very little to do with Edwards, unless he was the one that chose the questions that were asked of him. (I'm not very clear

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• Shooting the messenger

  Published: July 24, 2007, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Life Issues, Marriage Family, Politics Government, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  ASSIST News Service reports on that German theologian who received a one-year jail sentence for drawing a comparison between abortion and the Holocaust. As you may remember, Johannes Lerle asserts that infanticide in the womb--which takes place 200,000 times a year in Germany--is comparable to the murder of Jews at the hands of the Nazis. Lerle

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• Dear Sy,

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:34 pm

  Tags: Life Issues, Marriage Family, Politics Government, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  I think Gina's point is about demographics and Reverend Longcrier seemingly representing most voices of a certain voting bloc instead of a minority (used in the broader sense of the word). You seem to have a problem with most arguments made on this blog regarding abortion and homosexuality -- do you suggest these behaviors are compatible with a

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• Gosh, Michael, Tell Us What You Really Think!

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Arts Media, Politics Government

  people nothing of substance. Politics becomes a spectacle something like the Academy Awards where the participants show up in their most glamorous attire, mutter a lot of meaningless dialogue, celebrate each other's celebrity, while the media ogles from the sidelines. The Hollywood-ized debates are stupid.  The other night, CNN went a step

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• Keep Chief Justice Roberts in your prayers

  Published: July 30, 2007, 8:05 pm

  Tags: Politics Government

  The Chief Justice suffered a seizure and a fall this afternoon (H/T NRO). It sounds as if he's recovering well, but you might want to take a moment to say a prayer for his complete recovery. (You might also want to take a moment to mourn the state of our political discourse.)

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• The More I See You

  Published: August 1, 2007, 9:56 am

  Tags: Apologetics Theology, Foreign Policy, Politics Government, Religion Society

  Over at Get Religion, my friend Terry Mattingly has the latest installment in his Sisyphean task of coming up with a definition of "evangelical" that is useful, precise, and faithful to the distinctives of this Christian tradition. Good luck, TMatt. The occasion for this episode of "What's an Evangelical?" is a New York Times

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• Less talking, more walking

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:40 am

  Tags: Politics Government

  The New York Times reports today that Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn't necessarily walk the talk when it comes to his support for public transportation. For five weeks, NYT reporters monitored Bloomberg's morning commute and found that most days, two Chevy...

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• Re: American Psycho

  Published: August 1, 2007, 12:38 pm

  Tags: Politics Government

  Another thing the Brits don't understand ... at least those who've not been victimized by the UK's burgeoning home-invasion business ... is the American insistence upon the right to bear arms. Well, they evidently don't have log-bearing bears in the UK (God must've known that the poor dears couldn't handle them). And, given the log-bearing bears

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• Q&A with Chuck Colson, Part II: A Little Light Reading

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:17 am

  Tags: Apologetics Theology, Books, Politics Government, Religion Society

  series of essays called The Politics of Prudence, which I've been reading again lately. I've also enjoyed Pascal's Pens es. I'm currently reading Tom Oden's theology of the patristic era which has to do with the book I'm writing now, but it's really kind of intrigued me all by itself, and I finished a very good book by him called The

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• They Protest Too Much

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:27 am

  Tags: Health Science, Politics Government

  In the Washington Times last week, Ken Boehm wrote about a fight concerning partisan political antagonists, scientists, and former surgeon generals about the so-called politicizing of science. Needless to say, the gist of the piece is that some current and former bigwigs are blaming the current administration and whole segments of

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• Q&A with Chuck Colson, Part IV of IV

  Published: August 6, 2007, 1:31 pm

  Tags: Politics Government, Religion Society

  Here's the final part to my first (hopefully of many) Q&A with Chuck Colson. Today, hear his thoughts on the 2008 elections as well as a challenge he has for readers, and a question of his own for you. I hope you'll weigh in with an answer. I know he wants to hear your thoughts, and so would we.Catherine: Well, I was double-dog dared to ask

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• Mormonism and the Presidential Campaign

  Published: August 6, 2007, 1:13 pm

  Tags: Politics Government, Religion Society

  Michael Gerson writes that, when considering Mitt Romney's fitness to become president, we should ignore his Mormon beliefs about the destiny of the soul (soteriology) in favor of examining -- in addition to his other qualifications -- his religious convictions on  the topic of anthropology, the nature and value of human beings. "Many

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• FOIA May Be Getting A Makeover

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:57 pm

  Tags: Politics Government

  Before heading off to their vacation homes or onto the campaign trail, members of the Senate approved a bill last Friday that would overhaul parts of the Freedom of Information Act. The bill would create sanctions against federal agencies that...

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• No word on whether he drowns puppies, though.

  Published: August 7, 2007, 3:04 pm

  Tags: Politics Government, War On Terror, Weblogs

  How can the United States' moral standing have plummeted as a direct result of a foreign policy designed to create more U.S.-friendly democracies in the world? Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and author of A Tragic Legacy: How a Good...

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• Un-Pride Ride

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:31 pm

  Tags: Arts Media, Politics Government, Sexual Ethics

  This is an interesting story and I hope it gets picked up by more media outlets. So far on my search, I see FOX is the only major news network covering it, and a few conservative news organizations having a report on it (please correct me if I'm wrong). People shouldn't be forced to participate in events they aren't comfortable with. What if

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