J Walking

I have many Bruce Springsteen fans who are friends. They speak of him and of his concerts with glory in their voices and wonder in their eyes. I’ve never been blessed by him in those ways even though I have wanted to love his music. But maybe I haven’t been looking or listening closely enough.…

A jarring report in USA Today: Protestant churches are losing young adults in “sobering” numbers, a survey finds. Seven in 10 Protestants ages 18 to 30 — both evangelical and mainline — who went to church regularly in high school said they quit attending by age 23, according to the survey by LifeWay Research. And…

After seeing the picture of Billy Graham and Charles Gibson in my interview with Gibson, Wendy Wonderful wrote: WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PIC.. YOU CAN SEE THE LIGHT OF GOD ON THEIR FACES LIKE IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHEN MOSES CAME OFF THE MOUANTAIN.. WHAT A TREAT..LIGHT SWEET HONEY FROM A BEE…I AM SOO EXCITED THAT…

Pete Wehner, once Mike Gerson’s deputy in the White House, and a friend of colleague of Mike’s (and mine) since the early 1990s writes a fact-based response to Matt Scully’s piece attacking Gerson at National Review Online. Wehner, someone singled out by Scully in his piece, as an honest guy writes: In the World According…

Matt Scully’s thoroughly devastating piece documenting Michael Gerson’s great talent at self-promotion is breathtaking in its scope, even tone, and fact-based reality. During my nearly three years in the White House, I can attest that what Matt states as fact about the speechwriting process is perfectly correct. There was never a moment I witnessed a…

I got a chance to screen the 20/20 piece on Billy Graham and the presidents and it really is a must-watch. More than any other article or TV program of late, it tells the story of faith and politics in the most pragmatic of ways. It highlights the reality that a wall of separation may…

Tonight on 20/20, Charles Gibson devotes the hour to Billy Graham and his unique relationship with every American president since Harry Truman. Gibson had the opportunity to sit down with Graham and three of his friends – Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, and bill Clinton in a remarkable roundtable discussion. I had a chance to…

An evolution bombshell is going off right now. Since it is an “evolution bombshell” that means it is exploding very slowly and deliberately through the pages of academic journals and the press. The bottom line is that the iconic theory of human evolution that presented evolution as slow, steady progress from knuckle-dragging chimp to suit-wearing…

Yesterday in Iowa Rudy Giuliani kept up with his practice of not talking about his religious practice: “My religious affiliation, my religious practices and the degree to which I am a good or not so good Catholic, I prefer to leave to the priests,” Giuliani said. “That would be a much better way to discuss…

Many people wonder who will become the next Billy Graham. Mark Batterson, a pastor in Washington, DC, doesn’t answer the question. In highlighting the possibility of new technology to communicate Jesus like never before, he does show where we should be looking. Podcasting is circuit riding at the speed of light. Blogging is digital discipleship.…

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