Mark Johnson is the Executive Director of The Fellowship of Reconciliation These are difficult times in which to discern the truth, to know what to believe. The language has shifted, the rhetoric softened; but behavior, actions are still troubling. President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton send an envoy to the Middle East “to listen.”  A drone…

HBO will be airing a new documentary about Ted Haggard, the evangelical pastor and former President of the National Association of Evangelicals who fell from prominance when it was discovered that he was having extra-marital gay sex with a male prostitute. The documentary The Trials of Ted Haggard, by Alexandra Pelosi has sparked a lot of…

The New York Times reports that secularist parties gained in recent regional elections in Iraq.  The relative success of the secular parties may be a sign that a significant number of Iraqis are disillusioned with the religious parties that have been in power but have done little to deliver needed services. Well-known incumbent parties also…

cross posted from brianmclaren.net  I got this email message today …  Get away from earth with your godless emergent church, McLaren, perhaps to hell? Could you do it a little bit faster?!! It would help the rightious christians around the world, believing in the blood of Jesus Christ and not in Mystic from east and…

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