Where have you been, my Reconciliation Blog peeps?! Once again, I’m learning about a hot topic way late in the game. You’re supposed to be telling me about this stuff, especially now that I’m away from the pulse of evangelical happenings (i.e., Christianity Today).
Anyway, have any of you been tracking the story of Calvin College [...]
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One of the drawbacks of not working at Christianity Today any longer is that I’m not keeping up with all the new and forthcoming books. One that I totally missed until yesterday is Shelby Steele’s A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win, which came out late last year. [...]
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Posted in Blogs, Media, Politics, Websites on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
While in L.A. last week for Hollywood Presbyterian’s MLK celebration, I had the added blessing of seeing my friend Rudy Carrasco, whose Harambee Christian Family Center was the beneficiary of a special offering taken up that evening. Anyhow, I really like this recent post about Condoleezza Rice found over at Rudy’s blog.
And while I’m on [...]
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ChristianityToday.com has posted a solid, if brief, interview with Barack Obama. The Democratic presidential candidate talks about his personal faith, his views about abortion, President Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative, and rumors that he’s a Muslim.
I spoke at Hollywood Presbyterian Church over the weekend for its annual Martin Luther King Jr. tribute event. It was a great time, and [...]
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I just saw this development about the editor of Golfweek being let go after the magazine featured the image of a noose on its cover to illustrate its story about the Tiger Wood/Golf Channel controversy. My first thought was, Here goes the political correctness again. And as you read this report on the situation, it [...]
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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s recent war of words over racial politics reminded me of a blog entry from 2007. Last summer, I blogged about a Washington Post op-ed piece called “Obama’s Tightrope.” The essay, written by African American freelancer Amina Luqman, argued that the secret to Obama’s success was his ability to avoid the [...]
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Posted in Media, Social Issues, Sports on January 10, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Though I don’t always agree with their tactics, I often find myself playing the contrarian and defending Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to those who have absolutely no tolerance for their brand of racial politics. I still believe Jackson and Sharpton have an important role to play at times, in a nation that still stumbles over [...]
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In earlier posts, I’ve ruminated on the similarities between Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee. Though they come from different sides of the spectrum, they both articulate a common vision of moving beyond a polarized politics of cynicism and finding a more grace-filled politics of hope.
I promise I’ll stop my Obama/Huckabee ticket suggestions after this [...]
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