Nothing says Christmas like this ornament of George W. Bush in his flight suit at the Mission Accomplished event. I think I got it at the 2004 Republican National Convention. Email me your favorites!

Rev. Tony Jones offers some good advice for Rick Warren: if you aspire to be like Billy Graham — a widely respected pastor to the presidents — you have to hold your tongue. “The evangelical intelligencia liked (not loved) Billy Graham because, though he wasn’t a theologian, he usually spoke carefully (anti-semitic comments in Nixon’s…

Now that Rick Warren has been selected to deliver the invocation (and a firestorm has ensued), there’s another important question: what kind of prayer will he deliver? Billy Graham, who has done quite a few of these, would usually close “in the name” of the Prince of Peace or some other allusion to Jesus. In…

Juan Cole, a liberal Islam scholar, has a fascinating account of last night’s Muslim Public Affairs Council event — featuring Rick Warren reaching out to Muslims…at the same event as Melissa Etheridge, the singer who is lesbian and was prevented from getting married by the passage of Prop 8 in California. Cole reports that Warren…

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