Obama, the so-called rational-sounding bigot

You have a guy some of us could consider a bigot pray at your party, a guy you clearly disagree with on major issues, and you’re a bigot? Guilt-by-association all over again?

good, now they can miss the point, too!

This shows an Iraqi celebration of Christmas in the streets of Baghdad, a public celebration sponsored by the Iraq’s Ministry of the Interior. The wall between church and state demolished.
We came, we saw, we conquered. USA!

A portly German dressed in red, brought to you by the Iraqi government. Merry Christmas, Darling!

Forsaking dignity for grandeur: Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and the prophetic imagination

So in this time of great busy-ness, my good friend Carlo has responded to the need and provided us with another excellent post. This one extends a little further on the theme he began with in his Johnny Cash post: 20th century American music and the Old Testament prophetic imagination. Enjoy.
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Forsaking dignity for grandeur: [...]

When Jim Wallis repents…

I had to join the chorus on the God’s Politics blog in expressing my frustration with the good Reverend’s words concerning the Bush Administration. Like many others I posted a comment directly on his site (the same one twice, accidentally – what a tech genius I am) and called on him to reconsider his words. I [...]

When Jim Wallis attacks…

On Monday, Jim Wallis did a post on the God’s Politics blog that turned my head. I wondered what you all think of it. The link to the story is here, and here’s an excerpt of the pertinent part.
I believe that Dick Cheney is a liar; that Donald Rumsfeld is also a liar; and that George [...]

On de-labeling my Life

Today begins a new semi-regular event here at mr. beale’s – guest authorship. I’ve asked a few of my good friends, adnd hope to ask a few others, to contribute their thoughts to this site, and so far the response has been as intruiging and diverse of the rigorous intellects behind those individuals. Soon, once [...]

Coulter’s Christianity and the muffling of the Messianic: Or, I hope this makes sense

I’ve been wanting to breech the topic of modernity v. postmodernity here on this site for a while, and I think I may actually have found a way. Thank you, Ann Coulter!
Here’s the lovely lady herself, last week on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch:

Christians as perfected Jews, America as better off if [...]

Join the conversation! Nudity and the Kingdom of God

Well, for the second time here at mr. beale’s, my anonymity and hiding-in-a-nondescript-corner-of-the-Interweb style has been compromised by the comments of a certain person about whom I’ve recently written. First, it was CEO Marty Baker of SecureGive fame responding to my little observation of his business decisions. (Read here) Now, it’s the author of the Christian [...]

Best sermon I’ve ever heard (that I’ve had to turn down in public)

Please forgive me for the language in this video, but I HAD to post this! I found it while sitting in the library here at the law school, working on my laptop and licking my wounds from a massive writing assignment that kept most of my classmates up all of last night. Also my Bengals just dropped to [...]

waiting…hoping…

Here’s the scene these days in Myanmar.
(Read the New York Times article as well)
 
Now, imagine this with me.
News reports from all around the nation and across the blogosphere tell of thousands of American Christians taking to the streets in protest. All of them uniform in dress and purpose. Each one standing for justice because their religious beliefs [...]