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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005Eric’s story is far more common than we care to admit. One in three girls and one in six boys are sexually abused in childhood, and twenty percent of women have had at least one incestuous experience before 18. Given these and other realities, what happens when God answers our prayers and His word, sharper [...]
Losing Races: a Dream Deferred
Sunday, January 16th, 2005In honor of the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday, I wanted to excerpt Losing Races: A Dream Deferred on my blog. It tells of an experience I had in 2003 at a conference sponsored by one of America’s foremost evangelical ministries. Sadly, I endured many similar experiences in 2004. Please consider reading the piece in [...]
Dobson, Is This a Good Thing?
Thursday, January 13th, 2005[James] Dobson, perhaps more than anyone, will be most credible in leveraging evangelical power at the voting booth. That’s partly because, politics aside, he’s unrivaled as an evangelical leader. “Given Billy Graham’s advanced age,” says Richard Land, president of the 16 million-strong Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, “it’s James Dobson who’s stepped [...]
How to Infuriate Anti-Faith Folks
Wednesday, January 12th, 2005Say the following when you’re President of the United States: “I fully understand that the job of the president is and must always be protecting the great right of people to worship or not worship as they see fit,” Mr. Bush said. “That’s what distinguishes us from the Taliban. The greatest freedom we have or [...]
Even the NY Times Gets It
Monday, January 3rd, 2005Some of evangelical Christianity’s most respected leaders still don’t believe Hip Hop can be a viable expression of worship or a legitimate means of outreach. They are not paying attention. The effectiveness of anointed Hip Hop to change lives has been duly noted by, among others, the New York Times (yes, that Times), which visited [...]
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