Are Democrats, buoyed by President Bush’s historically low approval ratings, counting their votes before they are cast? There is increasing evidence they might be: Some Republicans also drew confidence from Saturday’s election of Republican U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal as governor of Louisiana. The incumbent Democratic governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, still blamed for post-Hurricane Katrina incompetence,…

Between 1991 and 2007, Fuller Theological Seminary’s School on Intercultural Studies assembled a report on what drew Muslim converts to Christianity. The study of 750 people doesn’t claim scientific precision, but rather, a glimpse into what makes Jesus attractive to Muslims. Guess what? No one was converted because of American tax policy, foreign policy, or…

Sen. Barack Obama is to embark on a gospel music tour of South Carolina. He won’t be singing and so he is bringing in some help. This is where things get interesting. One of the musicians on the tour, Grammy award winning gospel singer and minister Donnie McClurkin, is generating some controversy. For years, McClurkin…

“My commitment to the Kingdom of God has to be greater than my commitment to the Declaration of Independence.” Greg Boyd Woodland Hills Church St. Paul, MN Boyd, in a sermon called “revolting beauty”, talking about how the radical cost of following Jesus may mean rejecting certain established cultural facts including believing that “life, liberty,…

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