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Bad News: Stephen Baldwin Is Staying
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Tony Jones
I am sorry to report that Stephen Baldwin is staying in the United States. Baldwin, a B-list celebrity and convert to conservative evangelicalism, had declared to Fox News that if Barack Obama won the presidency, he would move out of the country. We should have known that was too good to be true. He now…
Yes, Rod, Barack Obama Is a Christian!
By
Tony Jones
My soon-to-be-blogalogue partner, Rod Dreher, has today questioned Barack Obama’s profession of Christian faith based on a snippet of a 2004 interview in which BO refers to Jesus as a “bridge between God and man.” Of course, BO is not a trained theologian, so we might wish he would have chosen words that more precisely…
Getting Dooced for Obama
By
Tony Jones
If you don’t know it, getting “dooced,” means getting fired for blogging something that your employer finds odious. It’s a term coined by Heather Armstrong, who now blogs full time at dooce.com. Today, Scot McKnight blogs an email from a pastor who faces persecution because his vote for BO has become known to his congregation. …
Are We a Centrist Country?
By
Tony Jones
There’s been lots of talk in the last couple weeks in the punditocracy about the the above question. The talking heads seem to have come to two consensi (with, of course, notable exceptions): The United States is a “center-right” country PBO* will govern from the “center-left” I don’t know about the first bullet. It seems…
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