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God’s “Long List” Finally Found!
USA Today reports: At his new church, Haggard said he will teach that God intended marriage to be a monogamous union of a man and a woman. But he said heterosexual marriage was just one ideal in a long list of things God wants people to do, including pray, be healthy and stay monogamous. We…
Love the Sin, Not the Sinner
Maybe one of you heterosexual married Buddha-killers wants to adopt George Alan Rekers’ son. Rekers, co-founder with James Dobson of the Family Research Council and current board member of NARTH (National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality), long ago came to the professional conclusion, “based on research and logic,” that “homosexually-behaving adults should not…
Catholic Boy Meets Jesus
Clap Your Hands! by Larry Tomsczak (Logos International, 1973). Clap Your Hands! is the autobiography of 23-year-old Larry Tomsczak, who, at the time of the book’s publishing, was the “nation’s only full-time Catholic evangelist.” It’s not surprising that later on in life, Larry parted ways with the Magisterium and started his own ministry. Larry’s story…
Haiti Haiti Haiti!!!
PSA for KGOD, Boise Idaho. 1/2010 A.D. (GARY OWENSESQUE ANNOUNCER) Americans! You know that thing where there’s only one set of footprints on the beach ’cause that’s where Jesus carried you? Well, right now, in Haiti, there aren’t any footprints on the beach. (OMINOUS SYNTHESIZER) Jesus is overloaded! He needs YOU to step into the…
Rick Warren’s Extreme Measures
In order to save our church, dear parishioners, I am unretiring my Goatee Rides T-shirt. I’m offering this service for the low, low price of $100,000. Just nine ladies can make 2010 start out right for all of us at Saddleback. Oh, all right. Dudes too. Sometimes you gotta take one for the team. @…
New York Literati on Growing Up Evangelical
“Panels are the new party,” declared the moderator of a recent panel put on by n+1, the magazine-in-chief of New York’s determinedly serious set. If so, 2009 has been a year of downright revelry for the magazine. Areas of inquiry have included the ’90s, the hipster, young conservatism, feminism, and, on Tuesday night, Christian evangelicalism,…
Wikipedia: Pat Robertson Is Hilarious
Quick, before it gets taken down: there’s a fun piece of Wikipedia graffiti on the Pat Robertson entry.
God Goes For It On 4th Down
God must be some kind of couch potato, flipping through channels on Sunday afternoons with a plate of heavenly buffalo wings and a six-pack of He’Brew. He seems to love American sports, judging by the praise, thanks and post-touchdown recognition He gets from some of our most prominent athletes. Florida’s Tim Tebow, most notably, cites…
Spaceship Jesus Will Come Back and Whisk Us Away
The disastrous politics of Rapture, in an excerpt from Patience with God.
God and Wal-Mart
This week I spoke with GRITtv’s Laura Flanders about the surprisingly diverse Christian Right opposition to the Obama administration. Is racism a major component of the tea party movement? No doubt. But is the broader right a lot more complicated? Absolutely. I witnessed that complexity a few weeks ago in the prayer rooms of the…
Evangelical = Conservative?
In response to John D. Boy’s piece Icons of the New Evangelicalism that we ran on Monday, Mike Brislen wrote in from Pennsylvania: I find the grouping of Brian McClaren, Shaine Claibourne (sp?) with Rick Warren, and then make a comparison with the ‘evangelical leaders of the 90s’ such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell,…
Bring Us Your Loud, Your Brash, Your Foolish
In response to John D. Boy’s piece, Icons of the New Evangelicalism, this morning, Bruce Illig writes in: Mr. Boy, I think it would be a grave mistake to assume that a change of appearance would signal any change in the basic beliefs of the evangelicals, or their influence. Would this not be the time,…
