Senator Joe Biden has announced that he will run for President of the United States, but I think he may have deep-sixed his candidacy on his first day out. According to the New York Observer, Biden offered this reflection on Senator Barack Obama’s candidacy: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man” (audio). The worst part about this quote is that it appears that neither Biden nor the interviewer perceived the implicit racism of the statement. If any of the other candidates (like this one) chooses to make hay of this boner, I…
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CT on Salem Communications
Christianity Today has a must-read piece on Salem Communications and its place in Christian radio. If you listen to Christian talk radio in a major market in the U.S., then it’s likely that you have been listening to a station in Salem’s ubiquitous broadcasting network.
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Reviews of Microsoft Vista and Office 2007
I do not plan to be a guinea pig for Microsoft’s release of its new Vista operating system. Even though I have already read one review in which a Mac user is switching to a PC in order to use Vista (Gasp!), I will not be drinking the Kool-Aid any time soon. As with all Windows operating systems, it will take a couple of years to get all the bugs worked out. I don’t have time for that.
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What Huckabee Should Have Said
Yesterday, Governor Mike Huckabee announced his plans to run for President of the United States. He made the announcement in an interview with Tim Russert on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Governor Huckabee is a former Baptist pastor and is widely regarded as an evangelical-friendly candidate.
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Saturday Snickers: Bipartisan Blathering
Bush may be master of the malapropism, but Hillary Clinton is the master of the monotone. Which is worse? You be the judge. The following videos confirm that Hillary can’t sing, and Bush can’t talk. [HT’s: Drudge Report, The Late Show]
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Saturday Snickers
I am constantly coming across humorous items on the internet, some of which I post here from time to time. There have been times, however, when I have refrained from posting something humorous because I thought that it would be inappropriate in the midst of some of the more serious topics that I address in any given week. I have decided, therefore, to start a weekly series called “Saturday Snickers.” (What can I say? I like alliteration.) My aim is to save up all the funny internet stuff and to post all the week’s humorous items on Saturdays. I hope to have something comical posted each week. Anywho, we’ll see…
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N.T. Wright Repeats Jim Wallis’ Error
I wrote last week about Jim Wallis’ harsh (and I think unfair) criticism of the U.S. war in Iraq (click here to see it). Wallis alleged that President Bush manipulated the U.S. into invading Iraq by intentionally deceiving the American people into believing that Iraq was behind 9-11. In a recent essay for the Washington Post‘s “On Faith” forum, N. T. Wright makes the same charge. He writes, “I believe, and have said so from early 2002 when the idea was first mooted, that for Britain and the USA to go to war in Iraq was not, could not be, and would not be seen as a just war. It…
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Katrina Didn’t Do It
I wrote last week about the alarming murder rate in post-Katrina New Orleans—nine murders in the first eight days of 2007 (previous post). I also pointed out that the problems that New Orleans is facing are not mainly due to Katrina. Katrina merely exacerbated problems that were there before the storm.
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Dick Cheney Tells Wolf Blitzer, “You’re out of line!â€
Wolf Blitzer conducted a contentious interview with Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday. They covered a wide range of topics, but the most contentious exchange came at the end when Wolf Blitzer asked about Mary Cheney, the Vice President’s daughter. [You can watch a video of the exchange below.]
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Review of “Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness†by Brian Vickers
Brian Vickers. Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness: Paul’s Theology of Imputation. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006. 254pp. $14.99. Anyone who has been paying attention to Evangelical theology in North America knows that the doctrine of Justification has become quite a hot topic. Not only has the “New Perspective” on Paul offered a challenge to the traditional Protestant formulation (e.g. James Dunn, N. T. Wright), but so have some dissenting voices from within the conservative sector of the evangelical fold (e.g. Robert Gundry). In 1999, when Christianity Today published “The Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Evangelical Celebration,” Robert Gundry responded by saying, “the doctrine that Christ’s righteousness is imputed to believing sinners needs…