‘Spike Lee: Hand of God Caused Economic Crisis to Get Obama Elected’
January 20, 2009
Jeff Poor, Business and Media Institute (HT: Kris Rasmussen)
Rick Warren’s inaugural prayer
January 20, 2009
Obamas feel out Baptist, Episcopal churches in DC
January 20, 2009
FOX News (HT: Christian Headlines)
‘OBAMA GETS MIXED EVANGELICAL REACTION’
January 19, 2009
Alice Rhee, MSNBC (HT: two or three . net)
Library of Congress gathering sermons on Obama’s historic inauguration
January 3, 2009
Library of Congress American Folklife Center blurb (HT: Bruce Tomaso, Dallas News)
Weekend Walkabout: December 13, 2008
December 13, 2008
26 posts from the week that escaped mention (almost!):
Alan Hirsch Responds to Kimball’s ‘Missional Misgivings’ - Out of Ur
Book Review: Sacramental Life - Trevin Wax
“Sacramental Life: Spiritual Formation Through the Book of Common Prayer … takes the reader through The Book of Common Prayer as a method of spiritual formation.”
Changing With the Times - Philip Schroeder
“You all probably know the truism: ‘Methodology changes, but the Message remains the same’ …”
Download Nine Advent Worship Goodies - TallSkinnyKiwi
Evangelicals Lose Ecumenical Friend in Catholic Theologian’s Death - Jeremy Weber
Futures for Anglicanism: aka Breaking Up is Hard to Do (But Sometimes Necessary) - Chris Dierkes
Going Old School, sort of - Launching A Radio Show - Doug Pagitt
Happy Birthday to ME! - Carla Rolfe
“If you’re a fellow 24 fan like me (or know of someone who is), this makes a great Christmas gift idea.”
I Need a Blogging Buddy and So Do You - John Saddington
The Jesus Project - Dan Wallace
“Reading between the lines, it seems that this group will offer up an even more radical fare than the Jesus Seminar did.”
Kate Gosselin of ‘Jon & Kate Plus 8′ Shares Her Favorite Christmas Traditions - Dena Ross
Little Drummer Boy - Jake Bouma
Muslim Lawyer: ‘Christmas is the pathway to hell’ - Cranmer
NRB head: Sex abuse scandal? It’s history. Really. - David Gibson
Obama’s Iranian observers - Erin Manning
“I was never very appreciative of the saber-rattling on the right over Iran; but the threat of a nuclear Iran is a serious one, not something to take lightly.”
Pumpkin Squares - Rebecca Stark
Q Conference Meetup & Discount - Kevin D. Hendricks
“This is not a bells and whistles hipster event with big names and games. It’s a strategic gathering of thinkers and doers who want to see change and bring change.”
Radiocarbon dating contradicts geological time scale, supports young earth - Daniel G, two or three
So long, Sola? - Nic Paton
Ten Differences Between the Reformation and Rome - Guy Davies (Reformation Theology)
The Uniqueness of Jesus’ Birth - Darrell Bock
Vanilla Holiday - Pseudo-Polymath
What?! (Rick Warren on Hannity & Colmes) - Dan Phillips
Xmas Has Pagan Roots ::: So What? - Theophilogue
“The music you listen to, the way your calendar and clock measures time, the names you use to refer to various planets in the universe, etc., all have ties to pagan religion.”
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up - Justin Wise
“You are looking at a picture of some Christians praying over the Bull outside of the New York Stock Exchange …”
Zimbabwe: Time for South African Government To Do Something - Mark Daniels
Video: ‘How Obama Got Elected’
November 24, 2008
This is getting a lot of attention. From this site, HowObamaGotElected.com (HT: Patrick Chan):
Is Obama the …
November 19, 2008
Antichrist? Apparently some Christians are entertaining the notion. Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans talks about how journalists have handled the rumor at GetReligion:
“If one accepts the notion that 666 signifies the Beast, and that the beast is commonly portrayed as the Anti-Christ — would he announce his coming with a winning Illinois lottery ticket?”
Yeah – they’re called universalists …
November 18, 2008
Beliefnet editor-in-chief Steven Waldman responds to questions about Obama’s faith which have been put forth recently by Joe Carter and others (see this post), with the following observation:
“But here’s the rub for orthodox Christians: millions and millions of people call themselves Christian, worship at Christian churches and believe that acceptance of Christ is not required for entry into heaven. In a recent Pew poll, 70% said ‘many religions can lead to eternal life.’ 66% of Protestants and 79% of Catholics said they agreed with that idea. … Many liberal Christians argue that Christianity is defined through actions not theology, and some dispute the idea that John 3:16 should define Christianity on this point.”
Questioning Obama’s faith
November 18, 2008
‘Crunchy Conservative’ Rod Dreher picks up where Joe Carter left off, commenting on a 2004 interview with Cathleen Falsani in which the president-elect said the following:
FALSANI: Who’s Jesus to you?
OBAMA: Right. Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.
Writes Dreher:
“Unless Obama was being incredibly and uncharacteristically inarticulate, this is heterodox.”
Read Carter’s original post: “The Faith of Obama.”
Read Dreher’s post: “Is Barack Obama a Christian?“
