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With all the attention showered on evangelical Christians and Catholics, we’ve neglected the religious group partly driving Barack Obama‘s recent surge in the polls: mainline Protestants. This bucket includes the historic American churches that once dominated the spiritual landscape but have been losing members in recent years: United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church in the USA,…

Because of tech glitches I couldn’t publish this on Columbus Day but thought, in the spirit of the holiday, you might enjoy this passage from Founding Faith. It’s a reminder that throughout history, there’s always been a noticeable chunk of people with solid evidence that the End of Days was imminent: “Christopher Columbus believed the…

Over the weekend we saw John McCain correcting a woman who said she didn’t trust Obama because he’s Arab. Some may have wondered where that came from. We’d heard all about horrendous emails claiming Obama is a secret Muslim (not true) but how did that morph into him being an Arab? To some degree the…

My wife was in Ann Taylor the other day and swears that the mirrors distorted her reflection to look thinner. So when women look at themselves, they think to themselves, “wow! These close make me look thinner!”
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