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Valuing Speech
Valuing Speech
Sunday, June 24, 2007
by George Will
WASHINGTON — Marriage is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values. That sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime.
At least it is in Oakland, Calif. That city’s government says those words italicized here constitute something akin to hate speech, and can be proscribed from the government’s open e-mail system and employee bulletin board.
Jun 30, 2007 - topic(s): Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Religious Liberty
WSJ - Christianity Without Salvation
Christianity Without Salvation
The legacy of the “Social Gospel”—100 years later.
BY JOSEPH LOCONTE
Friday, May 11, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
Within a few years of its publication in 1907, “Christianity and the Social Crisis” swept through America’s Protestant churches like a nor’easter, selling more than 50,000 copies to ministers and laypeople alike. In an age of social upheaval, Walter Rauschenbusch’s jeremiad was meant to rouse the church from its pietistic slumber. “If society continues to disintegrate and decay, the Church will be carried down with it,” he warned. “If the Church can rally such moral forces that injustice will be overcome . . . it will itself rise to higher liberty and life.”
May 11, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Apologetics, Bible, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Church and State, Social Issues, Issues
Washington Times Misquotes Land
Contrary to an assertion in the article written by Ralph Hallow that was published in the April 16, 2007, edition of the Washington Times, Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, has never said that he would vote for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for President of the United States in the 2008 election.
Apr 16, 2007 - topic(s): Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, National
Sex Offenders Test Churches’ Core Beliefs
On a marquee outside and on a banner inside, Pilgrim United Church of Christ proclaims, “All are welcome.” Sustained by the belief that embracing all comers is a living example of Christ’s love, Pilgrim now faces a profound test of faith.
Apr 10, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Family, Sexual Purity, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship
Read the So-Called “Land Letter” from 2002
October 3, 2002
Dear Mr. President,
In this decisive hour of our nation’s history we are writing to express our deep appreciation for your bold, courageous, and visionary leadership. Americans everywhere have been inspired by your eloquent and clear articulation of our nation’s highest ideals of freedom and of our resolve to defend that freedom both here and across the globe.
Apr 9, 2007 - topic(s): Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Human Rights, National, War, Issues
TIME: The Case for Teaching the Bible
The same might be said about public-school courses on the Bible nationwide. There aren’t that many. But they’re rising in popularity. Last year Georgia became the first state in memory to offer funds for high school electives on the Old and New Testaments using the Bible as the core text. Similar funding was discussed in several other legislatures, although the initiatives did not become law. Meanwhile, two privately produced curriculums crafted specifically to pass church-state muster are competing for use in individual schools nationwide. Combined, they are employed in 460 districts in at least 37 states. The numbers are modest, but their publishers expect them to soar. The smaller of the two went into operation just last year but is already into its second 10,000-copy printing, has expressions of interest from a thousand new districts this year and expects many more. The larger publisher claims to be roughly doubling the number of districts it adds each year. These new curriculums plus polls suggesting that over 60% of Americans favor secular teaching about the Bible suggest that a Miss Kendrick may soon be talking about Matthew in a school near you.
Mar 28, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Bible, Family, Education, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Religious Liberty
For Some Black Pastors, Accepting Gay Members Means Losing Others
When the Rev. Dennis Meredith of Tabernacle Baptist Church here began preaching acceptance of gay men and lesbians a few years ago, he attracted some gay people who were on the brink of suicide and some who had left the Baptist faith of their childhoods but wanted badly to return. At the same time, Tabernacle Baptist, an African-American congregation, lost many of its most loyal, generous parishioners, who could not accept a message that contradicted what they saw as the Bible’s condemnation of same-sex relations.
Mar 27, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship
They’d Rather Switch Than Fight
There’s a bonus in all this for social conservatives. Switchers on social issues usually stay switched. Ronald Reagan and the elder George Bush did so after becoming pro-lifers. All those Democratic presidential candidates in the 1980s and 1990s who switched sides on abortion from pro-life to pro-choice have stayed put. Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, says you only get to flip once on social issues. If you switch back, “you’re in no man’s land,” a politician without a political base.
Mar 5, 2007 - topic(s): Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, National, Social Issues
BARNA : Who Qualifies As An Evangelical?
January 18, 2007
(Ventura, CA) – The media and social commentators frequently refer to surveys that describe the opinions and behavior of “evangelicals.” However, those analyses are based on surveys that ask adults whether or not they consider themselves to be an evangelical. For two decades, The Barna Group has been measuring the social, political, religious and behavioral characteristics of evangelicals as well – but using a substantially different set of criteria. The Barna Group’s nine questions pertaining to the spiritual beliefs of people have reported on a very different – and much smaller – group of people. To distinguish them from the self-described evangelicals, Barna has named the segment based on its answers to nine theological factors the “9-point evangelicals.”
Jan 22, 2007 - topic(s): Faith, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, National
RADIO - Global Warming
Dr. Barrett Duke Guests hosts Richard Land Live! on Saturday January 6, 2007
Updated Jan 24, 2007 to point to the FFF version of the broadcast.
Jan 6, 2007 - topic(s): Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Life, Cloning, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Human Rights, Legislation, War, Science, Bioethics, Environment