Have evangelicals found their man in Mike Huckabee?
By Adelle M. Banks
WASHINGTON—When Mike Huckabee resoundingly won the Iowa Republican caucuses Thursday, he was backed by a significant percentage of evangelicals who see him as their presidential nominee. But could that view translate across the country, making him the choice of most of the nation's evangelicals? The jury's still out on that, political observers say, but the potential power of that voting bloc was in evidence as the first votes were cast in the 2008 race for the White House. Read the entire story
monday, january 07, 2008
One Order of Catholic;
Hold the Roman, Please
Andrew Greeley gets a little hot under the (Roman) collar over other "Christians"—Catholics have "been Christians since the beginning," he grumbles—who claim some sort of ownership over the "Christian" label in politics:
My crowd has been calling themselves ''Catholic'' for 17 centuries. The adjective "Roman" added in the American context is a slur, sometimes unintentionally conveyed in the tone of the one using it. It hints that we are somehow foreign and perhaps subversive. It came into use when the ''publics'' started to recite the Nicene Creed and their leaders had to explain that the ''one, holy, catholic and apostolic church'' of the creed wasn't us. Read the entire blog post
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(RNS2-JAN04) Harvey Gannon, 65, decided that a string of bad luck was a sign from God that he should not close his religious goods store outside of Cleveland. For use with RNS-SHOP-SIGNS, transmitted Jan. 4, 2008. Religion News Service photo by Lisa Dejong/The Plain Dealer of Cleveland.
Phil Vischer
By Andrea Useem
On Friday (Jan. 11), "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything"—the second feature-length film from the evangelical-inspired VeggieTales—sails into theaters.
Phil Vischer, co-creator of VeggieTales and the voice behind many of the movie's characters, says the movie is like a biblical parable. It teaches about the Kingdom of God through an entertaining story—in this case, the tale of three bumbling vegetable friends who must band together and overcome their fears to save their friends.
Vischer talked about what makes a movie Christian, what kids need to know about being a hero, and why God appears in his new film as a bearded old man. Read the entire story