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From a dear friend who took his first trip out of the country… I recently returned from a missions trip to Guatemala. I went with a group from my church to do a construction project for El Verbo church, a local church in Amatitlan that runs a school for Compassion International students. It was my…

June 2008’s conventional storyline: the religious right is dead, the religious left is growing, the Republicans are cratering, the Democrats will win the White House. It is possible that all four of those things are true. But take a look at the latest polling on Congressional Democrats. It isn’t pretty. Their job approval ratings are…

Snapshots from the forum that might not have been seen on TV: – Spontaneous and sustained applause for Elizabeth Edwards when she walked into the auditorium. She was mobbed by people all around her – mobbed not for autographs but mobbed to show love. It was beautiful. – A single African-American man jumping up and…

Midway through – Jim Wallis has tried to interject discussions of poverty into the forum and, to some degree, has succeeded. But this is less a forum about faith and poverty and more a forum about faith and divisive social issues. It would be far more interesting if Jim and his panel of experts were…

Evangelical Christians get regularly fired up by all the perceived ways the media and Hollywood make fun of them or misrepresent them. Frequently the slights are imagined or are trumped up by Christian leaders to raise more money. Sometimes, however, they are real. More often than not I think the slights or affronts are ones…

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From today’s WP, a rift within the pro-life movement: “Over the past seven years, the partial-birth abortion ban as a fundraising technique has brought in over a quarter of a billion dollars” for major antiabortion groups, “but the ban has no authority to prevent a single abortion, and pro-life donors were never told that,” he…

Just watch: What a beautiful man and what a beautiful life. Paul’s words in Galatians come to mind:“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” What is the true power of Jesus in politics? It is the power to…

Rod Dreher posts today on Peggy Noonan’s lambasting of President Bush: …it seems to me that we conservatives need to avoid falling into a historical revisionism that allows us to portray ourselves as passive victims of a feckless president. Not saying she does this, but I think as the last wheel comes off this presidency,…

So, I broke a toilet seat. We’ll spare too many details other than the disclaimer that there were no injuries but I guess I just sat too hard on our toilet seat and there was a fairly loud breaking sound and low and behold the composite wood seat broke. If indeed God plans all things…
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