Religion

Here’s one pacifist’s idea of proactive nonviolence. Click play to hear a recent call to the Dennis Prager show. Although Prager quickly veers into ad hominem, which is atypical of him, I still find the exchange interesting.

The caller’s sister may not be all the things Prager said, but she is certainly treating her brother-in-law […]

No, it’s not an Onion or Scrappleface headline. Well, it was. But, now it’s for real, except she’s a priest instead of a bishop.

She says she is “both Muslim and Christian.” Apparently she was hiding the Muslim part, but recently came out:

Shortly after noon on Fridays, the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding […]

Great stuff. Tall order to handle Christopher Hitchens, but Douglas Wilson does it: You write like a witty but acerbic tenth-century archbishop with a bad case of the gout. But this is truly an odd thing to do if "morality" is a simple derivative of evolution. Are you filled with fierce indignation that the […]

The biggest problem this article is that it makes my former Harding professor sound like Enid Strict — as if he were taking attendance and wagging his finger at the folks who skip Wednesday night Bible class.  Anyone with five minutes and an Internet connection can figure out that's not where Dr. Elrod is coming […]

From Mike Potemra, via The Corner:

Louis Markos—an English professor at Houston Baptist University who came to Evangelical Protestantism by way of Greek Orthodoxy—offers a different, and captivating, way of looking at these divisions. His article is titled “The Threefold Witness of the Church: The Catholic Peter, the Orthodox John, and the Protestant Paul,” and sees […]

I saw this on the Corner.

American commanders cite al-Qaida’s severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders, Col. David Sutherland said.

Read the whole article if you like.

In contrast the civil tone of the debate linked in my previous post, I just read this tidbit from Patrick Mead:

You see, every time I even mention that my son has joined the Marines I get nasty emails from militant Christian pacifists. Some of them are attacks, some are snide remarks, some are […]

In case, like me, you missed it and didn’t know it was online, here are the links to video of the American Studies Institute debate on just war and pacifism at Harding University. The audio isn’t great, but you can make it out. Political Cartel has a nice summary and there was some […]

Name that speech:

[W]e must never forget that no government schemes are going to perfect man. We know that living in this world means dealing with what philosophers would call the phenomenology of evil or, as theologians would put it, the doctrine of sin. There is sin and evil in the […]

Michael Rubin at The Corner asks “What does Jesus have to do with it?” regarding this story:

The Association of Iranian Jews…renewed its commitment in a message issued on the threshold of the Jewish religious festival of the Passover, which starts Monday night.

“In obedience to the instructions of Jesus, in the new Iranian year, […]