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Is Ann Coulter Anti-Semetic?

October 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Ann Coulter recently appeared on Donny Deutsch’s CNBC show, “The Big Idea,” where she had an interesting (now controversial) conversation about Christianity and Jews (read the transcript here). Let me say first of all that I am not a fan of Ann Coulter. However, the discussion that Coulter had with Deutsch (who is a Jew) is very interesting, important and has unfortunately been misrepresented and misunderstood by a lot of people. Before I offer my thoughts on the incident, you should watch the clip…

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Tags: News · Politics · Religion

Tripoli: A Tradition of Tolerance?

January 4th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, will use a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson during his ceremonial swearing-in today.
According to CNN.com, Ellison spokesman Rick Jauert said the new congressman “wants this to be a special day, and using Thomas Jefferson’s Quran makes it even more special.”
“Jefferson’s Quran dates religious tolerance to [...]

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Tags: History · Miscellany · NT Commentary · Politics · Religion

U.S. Presidential Speeches

November 3rd, 2006 · 4 Comments

This website has compiled all of the State of the Union addresses in U.S. history and then analyzed them, visualizing the most-used words in a “tag cloud.” Very interesting and surprisingly telling.

Check it out: U.S. Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud
There is a little slider in the upper-right that allows you to scroll backwards in time through [...]

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Tags: Miscellany · Politics

Whatever Happened to Christian Pacifism?

October 22nd, 2006 · 3 Comments

Perhaps this is just an example of Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, but ever since I wrote an article about Christianity and government, I have been seeing the topic everywhere. For example, there was just recently an article in the Harding Bison entitled, “Whatever Happened to Christian Pacifism?” It’s a slightly different topic than I dealt with in [...]

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Tags: Politics · Religion · The Church