I read an interesting article online in the Washington Post. The writer was mad that President-elect Obama had invited his friend, megachurch pastor Rick Warren, to offer the invocation at the inauguration. The problem? Warren, a pastor who has mixed cutting edge church growth techniques with traditional Christian theology, is opposed to gay marriage. Interestingly, […]
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What with the death of Mark “Deep Throat” Felt, the “Frost/Nixon” movie, and the tribulations of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Richard Nixon is once again part of the national conversation. I won’t lie, this makes me happy because I wrote Nixon and His Men: The Road through Watergate, and my publisher and I like it
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George W. Bush was interviewed recently and said some things about his faith that have generated a bit of a buzz. Some of the fuss, I’ll be honest with you, I just don’t understand. For example, he said he believed that God created the universe but he also believed in evolution. Generally speaking, you have
After the 2008 presidential election results were in, I wrote on this site that there probably would be some who counseled that the Republican Party needed to move away from its conservative Christian constituency. I cited the results of the last several elections and concluded that it would be a tactical mistake for Republicans. Sure
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Both Republicans and Democrats will be analyzing the results of the 2008 election and trying to learn from it. Gaining any actual, relevant insight will be problematic for at least three reasons. One, people are not nearly as willing to learn something new as they are to have what they already think validated in some
