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“history is your story”

Rick Warren’s prayer at the inauguration was unapologetic, prophetic and completely, Christian. He remarked that “history is your story”, in reference to God’s sovereignty. Bravo RW.

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Does it mean you have “arrived” when…

… you receive a request to do an interview on the influence that Kansas, and our deep religious heritage, holds over the upcoming presidential election? I’m not sure if the interviewers fully understand the electoral college. Come to think of it, I’m not sure that I do. Unfortunately, I was leaving Wichita for New Orleans the day that Ms. Tove ____ was in town for the interview.
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NOW is in Wichita on Faith and Politics

The PBS newsmagazine NOW was recently in Wichita and interviewed a variety of people from Central Christian Church, Immanuel Baptist, and Westlink. There are some friends of the Wheatland Mission that you can see toward the end of the piece.

God and Politics 2008 

Also, I have attached a link to a Pew Charitable Trust study on “young white evangelicals”. It is interesting to see what they (you) are thinking. In case your wondering, I don’t fit their category of “young white evangelical”. Two of the descriptors fit me but one doesn’t.

Young, White, Evangelicals 

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Obama’s Faith

Throughout the web, and many e-mail forwards, there has been a lot of discussion about Barak Obama’s faith. Some of these forwards and posts can only be described as mean spirited and others are simply ill informed. The link below is an interview with Obama published in Christianity Today. This is an opportunity to let him speak for himself.

Barak Obama in Christianity Today.

Here is a link to Snopes which debunks some of the rumors of Obama’s Islamic faith.

Obama a Muslim?

HT: Brad M.

What do you hear about the faith of some of the other candidates?

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What I Said Some Time Ago

“I shall not find Christ at the end of my journey unless he accompanies me along the way.” - Esther De Waal, Celtic Way of Prayer
“Our chance to be healed comes when the waters of our life are disturbed.” – Elizabeth O’Conner, Call to Commitment
"It is not allowable to love the Creation according to the purposes one has for it, any more than it is allowable to love one’s neighbor in order to borrow his tools." - Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
"It has always been more difficult to come to terms with Jesus as the way than with Jesus as the truth. It is more difficult to realize the ways our thinking and behavior get fused into a life of relational love and adoration with neighbor and God, God and neighbor." - Eugene Peterson, "Christian Century", Nov 29, 2003
"Past is past. Past is not present. Did is not do. Was is not is." - John Wesley Weasel in Book of the Dun Cowby Walter Wangerin.

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