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Obama Antichrist
Around our house we joke that Obama is the Antichrist. “Did you hear the news?” my wife will say. “Obama was at some foreign conference, and everybody loved him. He must be the Antichrist.” (For those unfamiliar with New Testament eschatology as commonly understood by many evangelical Christians, read the Left Behind series by Tim…
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Christians On Sudan
The New York Times today published two editorials, both by notable Christian leaders and both concerned with the imminent arrest of Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. The first, by Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, criticizes African leaders for their unwillingness to denounce Bashir. Instead, they have petitioned the United Nations Security…
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Inauguration Blues
So the inauguration was only a few hours old and Lincoln’s bible was still warm from Obama’s touch, when I received this email in my inbox. It’s the same stale issues in the same strident tone: abortion, gays in the military, same-sex marriage, activist judges, eroding values. Don’t get me wrong. These are all important…
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Cheer Up
To my dear Christian friends and family, devastated by the results of yesterday’s elections, I offer these words of comfort from Psalm 46: 1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the…
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Obama Wins
After all the years of spin and downright falsehood, of declarations maintained in the teeth of incovenient facts, of a klaxon truthiness that threatened to drown out truth, what we Americans want more than anything from our President is plain truth. We don’t want to be lulled into stupor with comforting words or “economic stimulus…
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