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James L. Evans, pastor of Auburn First Baptist Church in Auburn, Alabama, recently wrote about the sins that cities (and nations) might be judged for in the light of Biblical

Here’s Tom DeLay talking about law, integrity, and other things he has given lip service to over the years. This is from 1998: Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.): “. . .

Here’s the ‘religious’ part of a speech I gave today about why I’m running for office and what I see as top issues for SouthWest Nebraska. “5. I’m running because of

(Thanks to Sister Merry for this post.) There was a massive peace march in Washington, D.C. today, and estimates are that there were at least 300,000 people in attendance. There seemed to

Does anybody see, in any way, any truth in this? There is a certain egoist self-confidence which is increased by the more elementary forms of religion, which upholds us in much

I recently put an article up over at BibleWeek about faith, discussing the first few verses in the book of James. What is the faith the Bible requires?

Former President Clinton, in an interview on ABC (as reported in Common Dreams): “What Americans need to understand is that … every single day of the year, our government goes into

This site got listed under “Know Thine Opponent” on a liberal blog (certainly more “liberal” than I am, if you define the term a certain way), between Oliver North and

I am an advocate of defense of marriage. But to me it does not seem a good strategy to try to defend marriage (or marriages) by being preoccupied with

Words of Jesus, who is called “Christ.” It is from his title that we derive the word “Christian” (from Matthew 25:34-46) “Then the King will say to those on

Ed Howard is at it again, pointing out the obvious and the unpleasant (Nebr StatePaper.com email). I added the numbers and underlines: “We should do what can be done for

Through her much experience, study and writing about religion and religious ideas and leaders, Karen Armstrong has come to this conclusion: I discovered that in all three of the religions of

“Only justice can stop a curse.” That’s from Alice Walker via Paul Rogat Loeb in The Impossible Will Take A Little While. How far has the curse progressed? We’ve messed up

The Washington Post tells me this morning, “Armored military vehicles and national guard troops started moving into New Orleans Thursday morning amid continuing reports of violence and chaos in the

We drove to Chicago and back last weekend to see grandkids and their parents – 1500 miles. It was sort of a sad time, since if gas prices continue