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 Gaze through civil religion’s in-creeping fog: Halos blink on over sweltering men with wigs. They’re now immaculate secular apostles; they kneel on a mountain top beside their polished spittoons while awaiting their Constitution’s arrival. They never haggled, never referred to their honored but maddening mother country, and never debated behind closed doors in a muggy city … Continue reading: When the past strangles us  Want reasons for the restoration of the penitential Advent? Surf to the PBS News Hour website and click on its November 23rd broadcast. Watch the segment entitled, “Iran Cracks Down on Dissidents, Human Rights Attorneys, and Journalists.” Behold the microcosm of twisted humanity – complete with perverted, wrong-is-right ethics, evil rulers who think they’re … Continue reading: A true tale of power gone bad and the need for a real Advent  Would anyone mind if I flung open a window and bellowed a primal scream: “It could have been different!”? Evangelical Christianity’s hijacking was not inevitable. We barely missed the bus. We could have traveled with a more sophisticated political theology, free from clichés of the Right and Left. Such were my thoughts as I read Moral Minority: … Continue reading: Can the past point us to the future?  The all-American picture of the All-American family struck our Facebook walls hours after the announcement: A trim dad, donned with a baseball cap and a sweatshirt, sits on the porch swing beside his beautiful wife. Three children smile on their laps. The headline pleads above: “Please say a prayer for the Ryan Family.” The … Continue reading: Paul Ryan: The intelligence-wisdom gap  Cue the off-key organ grinder monkey music. The postmodern circus has come to town, with Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich enrolled as the unlikely ring leaders. Step right up and watch them assert “traditional values” while twisting and bending the truth until it snaps. The political Left tries to join the circus … Continue reading: A Relativistic World = A Con Artist’s Dream  By Charles Redfern Pluck the cotton from your ears and hear the cracks and booms: The Evangelical Right — always a mile wide and a millimeter deep — is fracturing. Witness the drama before South Carolina’s January primary: Alleged “leaders” gathered in Texas and endorsed Rick Santorum; supposedly Bible-thumping Palmetto State Republicans replied by opting … Continue reading: New Evangelicals free a hijacked movement |
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