I’ve already written about the Methodist professors who are opposing President Bush’s library that is likely to be built on SMU’s campus (see previous post, “Bush in My Backyard”), but now a group of Methodist ministers have also joined the fray. These ministers stand against the library’s being associated with SMU because they perceive President Bush to be an anti-Christian President. One of the protesting ministers is quoted in the Dallas Morning News saying, “I think that George Bush has been in his presidency so inconsistent with fundamental Christianity that he should not be associated with a Methodist university. Methodist means decency and this man has not been decent†(source).
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Jim Wallis Fumes after President’s Speech
It is well-known that Jim Wallis is a lefty evangelical and that he opposes the American war in Iraq. I think that people of good will can have different opinions about the war. But I don’t think that Wallis’ inflammatory rhetoric is at all helpful or constructive.
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Embryos Are Babies Too?
A recent story about a new born baby in Louisiana powerfully suggests that human embryos are people too. The Associated Press reports: “Rescued from a great flood while he was a frozen embryo, a baby boy entered the world Tuesday and was named after the most famous flood survivor of them all: Noah.
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Dobson Rejects McCain Candidacy
The President of Criswell College (where I teach) hosts a daily radio show in Dallas called “Jerry Johnson Live.” Last Thursday the show made headlines because of an interview that Dr. Johnson did with Dr. James Dobson.
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Meredith Vieira’s Inadvertent Pro-Life Message
Meredith Vieira did not explicitly endorse a pro-life position in her report for NBC’s Today Show. But her coverage of an amazing new 4D imaging technology speaks louder than anyone’s words. Vieira interviews a family with triplets who allowed their babies to be imaged while in utero. The pictures are detailed live-action images and show the babies “playing” with one another in the womb. According to Vieira’s report, the pictures suggest that the babies’ relationships begin to form “almost from conception.”
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A New Strategy for a Just War?
President Bush set forth his new strategy for the war in Iraq in a nationally televised speech earlier this evening (video, transcript). He said almost everything that I wanted to hear him say (and I acknowledge that people of good will can have different opinions on this issue).
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Editorials on the President’s New Strategy
Pay no attention to the New York Times‘ editorial on the President’s speech concerning the new strategy in Iraq. Apparently, the Times is ready to throw in the towel and to declare this war as already lost. For them, it’s time for the U.S. to cut its losses and any chance at a viable unity-government in Iraq. For a more realistic analysis of the President’s new strategy, two Wall Street Journal editorials are worth your careful consideration: “Mission Baghdad: ‘Clear, hold and build’ will take at least this many troops” “A Cynical Opposition: Democrats criticize Bush without taking any responsibility”
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Clinton and Carter Call Liberal Baptists to Unity
You probably won’t be surprised to learn that Presidents Clinton and Carter didn’t invite the Southern Baptists to their new movement of left-leaning Baptists (read about it here). I thought about blogging on this weird presidential alliance, but I can do no better than Russell Moore has done in his excellent piece: “Bill Clinton and Baptist Unity.” Moore is right on the money with this one. Go read it.
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Bush in My Backyard
No, President Bush isn’t really in my backyard, but it looks like his Presidential Library will be. According to the New York Times, Dallas’ Southern Methodist University will likely be the site for the president’s future library and museum. Unfortunately, some of SMU’s faculty are resisting the prospect of a Bush library on their campus. Two anti-war professors from SMU’s Perkins School of Theology have co-written an opinion editorial in the campus newspaper opposing the library. After weighing the benefits of having the library on their campus, they ask this question:
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Israel Plans Nuclear Attack against Iran
The Times of London reports that, Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-bustersâ€, according to several Israeli military sources. The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb. . .