Joseph Bottum weighs in on the Cordoba Initiative.
Aug
31
An FAQ on the Difference Between Mormonism and Biblical Christianity. See here.
Aug
31
A good explanation for why so many Americans don’t think Obama is a Christian.
Aug
31
God, the Gospel, and Glenn Beck by Russell D. Moore.
A Mormon television star stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial and calls American Christians to revival. He assembles some evangelical celebrities to give testimonies, and then preaches a God and country revivalism that leaves the evangelicals cheering that they’ve heard the gospel, right there in the nation’s capital.
The news media pronounces him the new leader of America’s Christian conservative movement, and a flock of America’s Christian conservatives have no problem with that.
If you’d told me that ten years ago, I would have assumed it was from the pages of an evangelical apocalyptic novel about the end-times. But it’s not. It’s from this week’s headlines. And it is a scandal.
Read the rest here.
Aug
26
The Despair of Zion by Walter Reich.
Any effort to bring peace between Israelis and Palestinians must reckon with the fact that bitter experience has taught many Israelis to doubt that their foes want a lasting concord.
Read the rest here.
Aug
24
The Uncircumcised Israel Lobby: What Jews Misunderstand About Christian Zionism by Steven I. Weiss. See here.
Aug
23
Scientific American on Eternal Fascinations with the End: Why We’re Suckers for Stories of Our Own Demise. See here.
Aug
23
Slate reviews The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam.