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WA Post: The Gospel According to Jim Wallis
Washington Post Magazine
By David Paul Kuhn
Sunday, November 26, 2006; Page W2
JIM WALLIS IS PREACHING ABOUT A BIBLE TORN APART. Wallis tells the crowd at the Seattle Pacific University chapel that when he was in seminary, a fellow student took hold of an old Bible and cut out “every single reference to the poor.”
“And when we were done, that Bible was literally in shreds. It was falling apart in my hands. It was a Bible full of holes. I would take it out to preach and say, ‘Brothers and sisters, this is our American Bible.’”
Nov 26, 2006
Topic: Faith, Apologetics, Bible, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Church and State, Social Issues, War
Iraq Nearly Had A-Bomb?
by Jonathan Gurwitz
Web Posted: 11/14/2006 07:05 PM CST
San Antonio Express-News
“Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq had abandoned its unconventional weapons programs after the Persian Gulf War. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.”
New York Times, Nov. 3
Pardon me — what was that?
It looked like another case of the New York Times trying to catch the Bush administration with its intelligence briefs down.
The headline blared: “U.S. Web archive is said to reveal a nuclear primer.” The story, less than two weeks before the midterm election, described the Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal, a controversial government Web site created last March at the behest of congressional Republicans to make public declassified documents seized after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Nov 14, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, War
For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel Is ‘God’s Foreign Policy’
As Israeli bombs fell on Lebanon for a second week last July, the Rev. John Hagee of San Antonio arrived in Washington with 3,500evangelicals for the first annual conference of his newly founded organization, Christians United For Israel.
Nov 14, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, War, Issues
Freedom’s New Weapon
At a moment when things are not going particularly well in the War for the Free World — the global conflict with Islamofascism and its aiders and abettors in which, like it or not, we are currently embroiled — there is a bit of very welcome good news…
Sep 18, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, War
ON RADIO: An Absurd Invitation
On today’s broadcast, Dr. Land comments on the absurdity of the National Cathedral’s invitation to former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. He’s been asked to speak at the cathedral on how Abrahamic faiths can promote peace, despite his abysmal human rights record. Hear all this and your phone calls on today’s For Faith and Family.
* Former Iranian President to Speak at the National Cathedral – uscirf.govSep 6, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Church and State, Human Rights, Persecution, Religious Liberty, War
Mixed Signals
Last week, the Bush administration sent profoundly mixed signals about its attitude toward the War for the Free World and the enemies who threaten us and other freedom-loving peoples. On the one hand, there was the president’s commendable reaction to the murderous plot to destroy as many as 10 passenger aircraft bound from Britain to the United States. George W. Bush correctly, and courageously, declared “We are at war with Islamic fascists.”
Aug 15, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, War
U.N.‘s failing ways
On Wednesday, Aug. 9, when Israel finally launched a major ground operation into Lebanon aimed at crushing Hezbollah terrorists, there was a collective gasp from the striped pants set at United Nations headquarters in New York. But this offensive wouldn’t have been necessary if the unaccountable, America-bashing, Jew-hating, tea sippers at the U.N. had the integrity to act in accord with their own charter.
Aug 14, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Social Issues, War
What they want
“What do they want?” It’s a query we hear a lot these days. By “they,” of course, the questioner means the suicide bombers, the masked men in the video-tape decapitating a hostage, the goose-stepping, black-clad legions parading with AK-47s. “They” call themselves Hamas, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, the Muslim Brotherhood, Jamaat-Islamiyah, the Mahdi Army or any of a dozen other names for violent terror groups operating with impunity around the world.
Aug 10, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Social Issues, War
Chaplains help carry spiritual load of war
They look like the other soldiers, but the Army’s airborne chaplains are noncombatants who carry camo-covered Bibles instead of weapons when it’s time to leap from aircraft onto the battlefield.
Aug 9, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, National, Social Issues, War
Democratic defeatism
Suddenly, the Democrats have found their voice on Iraq. It is the sound of defeatism.
Would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and 10 of their colleagues in leadership positions have proclaimed that it is time to begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq.
Aug 9, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, Social Issues, War