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Leaders of the Islamic groups held last Sunday a joint congress with the main agenda to establish an organized movement to fight against the ongoing ‘Christianization’ attempt in the city.

Robert Byrd dead

In comportment and style, Byrd often seemed a Senate throwback to a courtlier 19th century. He could recite poetry, quote the Bible, discuss the Constitutional Convention and detail the Peloponnesian Wars – and frequently did in Senate debates.

Elena Kagan’s Moment

Similarly, we hope Ms. Kagan had a few sleepless nights if she was in on the Justice Department’s decision to urge the Supreme Court not to take the case of Maher Arar, the innocent Canadian engineer whom the Bush administration sent off to be tortured in Syria. Solicitors general have disagreed or argued with presidents, and it would be nice to know that she did so in cases like these.

Miley Cyrus is Growing up, Tests Identity

Her greatest crime isn’t that she’s maturing too quickly: it’s that it’s unclear where she wants to go.

Obama: Our First Female President

If Bill Clinton was our first black president, as Toni Morrison once proclaimed, then Barack Obama may be our first woman president.

Senator Robert Byrd’s Vanished Ethic

The paradox of Robert C. Byrd’s life — and the reason his death was recognized by his Senate colleagues as so significant a milestone — is the balance he struck between the parochial and the profound.

June 26, 2010

On-Line Articles I’ve Read this week, XXVI

One of the Dead and Inert Ideas in Calvinism, Namely “Loving One’s Neighbor”

Sound psychological ideas in religion and life becameconfused and dead and inert.

An Address to Talented Students

And how is a person to get out of an arid and sterile intellectualclimate? Read something new and different. It may be wrong.But expose yourself to new ideas. Wisdom and truth are not diicoveredexcept there be the friction of conflicting ideas.

The “Stuff” of Biblical Counseling

It is not enough for us to merely speak the truth. We don’t just wrap a lavish gift in a trash bag and toss it to someone. One of the pleasures of ministry is that we get to wrap it, include a personal note, maybe even a thoughtful poem, and then smile as the other person enjoys the present.

President Obama’s enigmatic intellectualism

Pragmatism is fine — as long as it is complicated by regret. But that indispensable wince is precisely what Obama doesn’t show. It is not essential that he get angry or cry. It is essential, though, that he show us who he is. As of now, we haven’t a clue.

The Loose Vuvuzela

They’re calling him the World Cup’s “loose vuvuzela.” They’re swooning as he spreads the love, jumping into his players’ arms like some cuddly bear with diamond earrings and no neck.

Still Re-Thinking the Church

Christians don’t need to know everything to know something. They don’t need all the solutions to the church’s splintered condition to know that there’s a better way. Like Rhymin’ Simon sang, “I can’t run but I can walk much faster than this.” We may not have all the answers, but surely a humble look into the Word can help us do better, eh?

Augustinianism, Pelagianism, (Semi or not) and Works

One of the frustrating things about some writings within the so-called “New Perspective on Paul” is the mistake that justification by general good works can simply be equated with Pelagianism. The claim is made that Paul’s contemporaries were not Pelagians and, therefore, they were not guilty of “legalism” as Evangelicals understand it. What has been even more frustrating is to see Reformed Church historians allow this construction to stand.

Where are you God?

For instance, why does Jesus, having toppled Pharisee Saul off his camel (both literally and figuratively) say, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” “No offense, Jesus, but Stephen told us at his death that he could see you at the right hand of God the Father. Saul’s mission wasn’t against you, but against your followers, the Church.” The only way in which this statement makes any sense is if, at least in Jesus’ mind, persecuting his people is the same as persecuting him. They are one and the same thing.