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New Life Church, in Colorado Springs, is the mega-church founded by now-disgraced pastor Ted Haggard. It was the collateral damage of last fall’s revelation of Pastor Haggard’s relationship with a gay prostitute. Membership fell by more than 30%. Those remaining had to deal with both the shame of what their pastor had done and the…

Is the complete mess of the Republican party any clearer than with the fact that all of these men who are trying to compete for votes and attention – and are really trying to mobilize the completely disinterested conservative Christian movement – did so on a Sunday morning when, oh, Christians spend their time at…

John asked a question in response to my anteater ditty: “Ah David, is there anything that doesn’t draw you closer to God? Collapsing buildings, anteaters, the Red Sox?” Thinker gave a great answer. Here it is in part: One of my favorite holy guys is a Francisan priest who said – Either everything created is…

The National Zoo here in Washington will be unveiling “Little Schnozzy” – a new baby anteater. The WashPost has a fantastic article about the little guy, his parents, and anteaters in general that will absolutely suck you in. Here’s my favorite anteater fact – the mother’s don’t really have a clue that they’ve just had…

I recently bought a new Bible – a TNIV translation that is supposed to be a bit more accurate and a bit more gender accurate. A friend noticed it – still unread – and after teasing me about whether the new translation changes “the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit” into “the Parent, the…

When the bridge went down on Wednesday night, the fears for massive loss of life were great. I talked to a reporter friend on the scene and she said that the sense was it might be pretty bad. Now comes news that the loss of life is likely be far lower than expected: As many…

From Doug about my post on the idiocy of the Hucka-back controversy: I don’t think this reflects Christians, Christianity or Christ. It reflects what happens when the Church becomes a tribe with political aspirations. But I agree with this: political Christianity is abominable evangelism. Jesus’ followers were doubters, traitors, egoists and fishy. We still are,…

Thanks to Jillian for the link to this article about 50% of Americans thinking we found WMDs in Iraq. The article is a year old but is still a jaw-dropper – a much more powerful example of how little we Americans tend to know about little things like…war. Do you believe in Iraqi “WMD”? Did…

Check this one out – Republican voters don’t know that Giuliani is pro-choice. Hello? McFly? Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — A new poll shows that over half of Republican voters can’t identify that Rudy Giuliani is the lone GOP presidential candidate who supports abortion. However, the new Pew survey finds that pro-life voters and those who…

The juvenile exchange between the very evangelical Mike Huckabee and the very Catholic Sam Brownback continues. The New York Times political blog captures the whole ridiculous situation here. In hugely condensed form, it began with a pastor – not affiliated with the Huckabee campaign – sending around an email saying Huckabee deserved support because he…
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