Evangelicals

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Nightmare on Capitol Hill

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Despite polls showing a majority of Americans do not support the current legislative proposals being voted on in Congress, the Senate took us one step closer to passage this weekend. One of the interesting subplots to this unfolding national drama is the role that abortion has played in shaping the bills. Over on the House side, Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., managed to insert language prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortion under the proposed plan — either directly or through subsidies of the planned exchange.


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Cooler temperatures at Air Force Academy

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Four years ago, a battle over religion at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs seemed intractable. Now tempers are cooler, according to an Associated Press story by Dan Elliott. Interestingly, the story, “Air Force Academy says religious climate improving,” says one solution to the problem was more religion, not less:


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Tulsa's man of faith

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If you want a play-by-play of Oral Roberts’s life, look no further than Bill Sherman of the Tulsa World. Sherman’s piece was one of the first posted when news first broke that Roberts had died and is jam packed with Roberts’s chronology. For example, I didn’t know this piece of info: “The O.W. Coburn School of Law opened in 1979, and in 1985 regents voted to give the school to CBN University–now Regent University–in Virginia Beach, Va.”


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When "specifically" needs specificity

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It’s a cliche for a reason — sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Suffice to say, I quickly understood what this Washington Post story was about before I even read it thanks to the picture included with the story (and reproduced here to the right). It’s about a poster produced by the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) and distributed to some 7,000 churches in an effort to get Hispanics to increase participation. As you can see, the poster has stirred a bit of controversy.


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Prosperity Gospel's patriarch?

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I sit on the side of the cultural divide that is more familiar with MC 900 Ft. Jesus than Oral Roberts and his 900-foot Jesus. But it’s hard to forget Roberts’ dramatic televangelism, his faith-healing, the travails of his various ventures, his contributions to the world of direct mail and database management. The man’s a legend and many people are mourning his death.


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Oral Roberts: From Pentecostal to Charismatic

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Obviously, one of the major religion stories of the day is the death of the Rev. Oral Roberts at the age of 91. I would imagine that the major newspapers have had obituaries ready for a decade or more.


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Bullying Rick Warren

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The roles of Newsweek and its religion reporter Lisa Miller’s as reporter (conveyor of information) and pundit (advocacy) have been blurred for a while now. One minute, Miller is reporting on a story, the next, she’s offering her personal opinion on it.


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Birds of a doctrinal feather

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The church-state junkie in me really does not know where to begin when it comes to evaluating the mainstream media coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case pitting the University of California’s Hastings College of Law in San Francisco against the campus chapter of the Christian Legal Society.


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