Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

A must-read essay from Andy Crouch: “Why I Am Hopeful.” Andy isn’t gleeful about the fractures we’re seeing in capitalist structures, but the coming hard times, he says, give us a chance to become people of better, deeper, more godly character. An excerpt:  [O]ur culture is pretty afflicted right now. Which is why I am…

At The Daily Beast, Daniel Radosh (who, incidentally, started a Beliefnet book club for his “Rapture Ready”) uses the occasion of the Christian blockbuster “Fireproof” to make a larger point about insular Christian entertainment: Not only does it speak exclusively to the Christian audience (while purportedly being evangelistic), but it does so dishonestly. Under the guise…

I watched Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama with rapt attention yesterday. In terms of rationale, he essentially echoed the Christopher Hitchens approach, emphasizing Obama’s strengths of character, temperament, and personality and trusting that those strengths would be with him during a White House tenure. He also spoke my own mind in saying that one…

In my post on “Religulous,” I made the point that Bill Maher exudes a shockingly self-righteous certitude in his own position–and at the movie’s end, literally preaches a gospel of Maherism and warns doom for all who don’t see his light. (The comments about this in the thread below echo a similar exchange at Steven…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners