Why White Supremacists Like Obama

Here’s an interesting report from the Associated Press on the current mood among white supremacist groups regarding a potential Barack Obama victory in November.
He’d be a “visual aid,” says former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, in trying to bring others around to their view that whites have lost control of America. Obama’s election, says [...]

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Is Obama the Antichrist? No, says Tim LaHaye

 
Looks like I’m on a Barack Obama kick again. Sorry about that, but I couldn’t resist posting about this latest curiosity that came to my attention today when I received a press release from the Christian Newswire. It’s about one of the current campaign ads from John McCain. I hadn’t seen it yet, but the press [...]

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Is Obama Really a Christian?

Cathleen Falsani has a great column in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. The question at hand: “Is Barack Obama really a Christian?” Or better yet: “Who is a Christian?” We’ve covered some of this turf before, but it’s an endlessly fascinating topic.

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Better Late Than Whenever

As you’ve probably noticed, I haven’t been blogging that much lately—too busy! And I probably shouldn’t be blogging now, but I wanted to call your attention to a few items of interest I’ve run across recently. Some of them are slightly aged but still worthwhile.

“Racial Shift in a Progressive City Spurs Talks.” A case study of [...]

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Father Pfleger: When Good Pastors Attack

 
Do you think Barack Obama is getting tired of having to apologize for the comments of all the pastors in his life? Has there ever been a presidential race like this before where a candidate’s connections to clergymen figure so prominently?
Anyhow, I’ve got a few thoughts on Obama’s latest “pastor problem.” First, didn’t Father Pfleger [...]

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Wright and Wrong

Okay, just for the record, I have a problem with the glee Jeremiah Wright seems to be taking in responding to his critics during his current comeback tour. While entertaining and full of truthful nuggets, the reckless and arrogant tone of Wright’s recent speeches (particularly his appearance at the National Press Club yesterday) only serve [...]

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The Jeremiah Wright Interview

Watching Bill Moyers’s interview with Jeremiah Wright last night on PBS, I wondered if the media would latch on to sound bites from this broadcast the way they did the snippets from those now-infamous sermons that established Wright as an anti-American nut job. Of course, without Wright we wouldn’t have gotten Barack Obama’s brilliant Philadelphia [...]

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What’s in a (Church) Name?

Last week, Charisma published a provocative online commentary by editor Lee Grady. Lee is a bold analyzer of Christian culture and one of my former racquetball partners back when I lived in Florida in the late ’90s. In his April 16 column, “Tired Labels and Worn-out Wineskins,” Lee urges Christian leaders to reconsider the bewildering [...]

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Did the Prosperity Gospel Win?

As part of its commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, CNN.com posted an interesting story about a shift in the “black church” since the days of King. The article, by John Blake, kicks off with this tantalizing lede:
The contemporary white church has largely accepted King as a religious hero. Yet [...]

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40 Years After MLK

   
There will be no shortage of Martin Luther King Jr. coverage in the media this week, as we mark the 40th anniversary of his tragic death. If you’ve read, watched, or listened to anything in particular that you’d like to bring to the attention of others, or if there’s some upcoming programming that you’re aware [...]

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