July 2008

Jeremy writes about Worshiping Empire America This July 4th Sunday. "Rather than praying to our Father who art in Heaven that His Kingdom will come, His will be done on Earth as in Heaven, we’ll ask God to bless our Kingdom and the fruits of Americas labor. Worship of God will be replaced by worship of America." I, for one, am preaching at my church tomorrow and am purposely circumventing any mention of Independence Day.

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Leading scientist John Holdren says "global warming" is not the correct term to use; he prefers "global disruption". "'Global warming' [is] misleading. It implies something that’s mainly about temperature, that’s gradual, and that’s uniform across the planet... In fact, temperature is only one of the things that’s changing. It’s a sort of an index of the state of the climate. The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of it."

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Tony Jones discusses the trouble with defining "evangelical", which may be helpful in light of recent posts here. "To most evangelicals... 'evangelical' is a theological category. It represents what one believes about the Bible, about Jesus, about salvation, and about the afterlife. But to the mainstream media, 'evangelical' is a cultural category. One is an 'evangelical' based on whom you vote for, whether you listen to Christian radio, shop at Christian bookstores, contribute to evangelical ministries, and vote for certain candidates."

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