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McCain’s Changing Cross-in-the-Dirt Story
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swaldman
McCain tells the cross in the sand story in his 1999 memoir, Faith of My Fathers: “We both stood wordlessly looking at the cross until, after a minute or two, he rubbed it out and walked away. I saw my good Samaritan often after the Christmas when we venerated the cross together.” In his campaign…
The Verdict on the Saddleback Forum
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swaldman
I thought Obama was very good. He spoke about his faith in a humble, convincing, personal way. He showed himselt to be neither Muslim nor a black liberation theologist (as James Dobson put it). His abortion answer was okay. His answers about welfare reform (admitting he was wrong), Iraq (casting it as an anguished decision)…
Rick Warren Saddleack Live Blogging
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swaldman
OBAMA 8:10 — I’m driving up to New Hampshire to pick up my son from sleepaway camp. I’m listening to the debate on the radio and will attempt to live blog. First, observation: for those who were worried that Rick Warren was going to be a goofball theocrat asking inappropriate faith questions only: Warren’s quesitons…
The Left Behind Authors Other Bit of News
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swaldman
I’m glad to see that the media is catching up on the news, first described on WSJ.com, that the co-authors of the Left Behind series had said Barack Obama isn’t the anti-Christ. Who better to give the official Not The Anti-Christ Seal of Approval than the Left Behind authors? But y’all are missing another interesting…
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