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Barney Smith Delivers
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swaldman
I’m sitting in Invesco Stadium. Just heard Al Gore’s speech. It was actually less impactful being in this stadium than being indoors. There’s something about the vastness of the stadium that makes it much less intimate. The jumbotrons are father away, the sounds bit more muffled…. Gore’s best line: “The same policies all over again?…
Joel Hunter Prepares for the Big Prayer
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swaldman
Joel Hunter, a self-described Republican evangelical, is doing the closing prayer tonight. I bumped into him at Invesco before the festivities began, and asked him how he prepared. He called Billy Graham, he said. The ailing evangelist, said he thought it was a “magnificent opportunity” and that he was “proud that somebody of your stature…
The Mystery of Cameron Strang’s Non-Invocation
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swaldman
The Obama campaign was very proud that it had scored several evangelical Christian leaders to do benedictions or invocations at the convention. But they were embarrassed when one of them Cameron Strang, backed out shortly after the announcement. Strang, the editor of Relevant, a magazine for young evangelicals, explained to me what happened. Strang had…
McCain and Obama Decorated Sandals
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kstormer
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