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Franklin Graham: “The people on the far left hate God”
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Just getting around to this remarkable Christianity Today interview with Franklin Graham, son of Billy. “The people on the far left hate God, they hate his standards, and hate the name of his son. The people on the left are not going to support any relationship with people on the other side.” The controversy over…
Spare Me Some Change
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swaldman
Have you noticed how marketers have appropriated Obama’s “change” and “yes we can!” rhetoric for less-than-lofty goals? Pepsi has added “Yes We Can” language to its already Obama-ish red-white-and-blue logo. My favorite so far is this Vogue cover. Change! it urges its readers. But note the “change” that Vogue is calling us to: “DRESS CHEAP…
Limp-wristed Jesus, Mark Driscoll and the Fall of Ted Haggard
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swaldman
From today’s New York Times article about popular young Christian leader Mark Driscoll: The mainstream church, Driscoll has written, has transformed Jesus into “a Richard Simmons, hippie, queer Christ,” a “neutered and limp-wristed popular Sky Fairy of pop culture that . . . would never talk about sin or send anyone to hell.” I get…
“So Help Me God” Came from Chester Arthur — Not George Washington?!
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swaldman
Beth Hahn, historical editor for the U.S. Senate Historical Office, once made a video describing how George Washington began the tradition of saying “So help me God” during a presidential swearing in. Then she did some research — and changed her mind. “When I made the video, it was common wisdom that he said it,…
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