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Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa’s Dark Night of the Soul by Dinesh D’Souza ************************************************************** August 29, 2007 In Christopher Hitchens’ wickedly iconoclastic book The Missionary Position, Mother Teresa is portrayed as a self-satisfied dogmatist who never entertained any doubts. She was a “true believer” of the fanatical type. In his latest book God Is Not Great, Hitchens is […]
Billy Graham (Pastor in Chief) – Time Magazine
Billy Graham, Pastor In Chief Thursday, Aug. 09, 2007 By NANCY GIBBS, MICHAEL DUFFY You have to climb a steep and narrow road, past the moonshiners’ shacks and dense rhododendrons and through the iron gates to get to the house on the mountaintop that Ruth Graham built after her husband Billy became too famous to […]
Shane Claiborne
Come now & join the feast From the greatest to the very least Come now & join the feast Right here in the belly of the beast. Patriots you can bring your flags, We’ll be washing feet and will need some rags… — Shane Claiborne I was privileged recently (29/7/2007) to hear Shane speak at […]
John Stott: Some Personal Reflections
JOHN STOTT: SOME PERSONAL REFLECTIONS Prompted by reading the two-volume biography of Stott by Timothy Dudley-Smith (IVP 1999, 2001). John Stott (1921- ) is the English-speaking world’s highest-profile and most acclaimed ‘evangelical’. It has been said that if Evangelicals around the world were to elect a Pope, he would be front-runner. Personally he didn’t like […]
John Stott
John Stott (1921 – ) is the world’s most renowned evangelical preacher/teacher (it has been said that if Evangelicals were to elect a Pope, he would be front-runner). Personally he didn’t like the label ‘conservative evangelical’, preferring something like ‘radical conservative evangelical’. John Stott is Rector Emeritus of All Souls Church in London and Director […]
Ironies of Falwell
Sightings 5/21/07 — Martin E. Marty Today’s is the 369th M.E.M. Sightings (archived since 1999). At forty lines each, that means there have been 14,720 lines, only seven of which — in a 2001 and a 2005 column — were devoted to Jerry Falwell. Our calculators tell us this means he thus received 0.000475543 percent […]
Bill Hybells
I’m on Bill Hybell’s e-list. Here’s a moving story, which arrived today (19th May, 2007) Shalom! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ (20,000 articles 4000 humor) ~~~~ Dear Enews Friends, I know Barry Manilow wrecked everyone’s perception of this historic beach in the heart of Rio de Janeiro when he did a song about it twenty years ago. […]
Yes, I Knew Jerry Falwell
*(A Christian Liberal response): May 20, 2007* *Yes, I Knew Jerry Falwell* *By Harry T. Cook* ** It stopped me in my tracks, the news on Tuesday afternoon that the Rev. Jerry Falwell had been found unconscious in his office in Lynchburg, Va., and had been pronounced dead soon thereafter in a local hospital. I […]
Falwell’s Legacy
SojoMail a weekly email-zine of spirituality, politics, and culture http://go.sojo.net/ct/07LWub11mXT7/ ================================================= QUOTE OF THE WEEK ================================================= “There is a beginning of a political process, but I have difficulty using the word optimism. Time is on nobody’s side. We cannot give up, though.” – Jan Eliasson, U.N. special envoy to Sudan, speaking about peace talks among […]
Jerry Falwell (more)
JERRY FALWELL QUOTES & FOLLIES (Sent by my liberal friend Mark): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1999-FEB: An article in his National Liberty Journal claimed that Tinky Winky, one of the teletubbies on the children’s show by the same name, was promoting the gay lifestyle. “Now, further evidence that the creators of the series intend for Tinky Winky to […]
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