Faith: November 2007 Archives
OpinionJournal: Evangelicals and Evil Empires
Why are evangelical social conservatives open to a Giuliani presidency? Because they care about foreign policy, too, for the sake of their persecuted Christian brethren in Muslim-ruled countries, just as they cared about their brethren behind the Iron Curtain:
"John Wilson, editor of Books and Culture, the literary journal associated with Christianity Today, recalls going to Sunday evening church services in the 1950s: 'Every year, we heard a speaker or two who had come from "behind the Iron Curtain." They had harrowing tales to tell, sometimes first-person, sometimes not. There was a palpable sense of a world-scale conflict with godless communism.'...
"The tales of missionaries from Islamic countries may even be more harrowing than those Mr. Wilson heard as a youngster: 'In the past you had missionaries come back and talk about being imprisoned. Now you have reports from people about beheadings and bombings.' [Timothy Shaw] also cites Voice of the Martyrs, a publication widely circulated among evangelical churches, 'which contains lurid accounts of Christian missionaries being killed and attacked in mostly Islamic countries.'"
internetmonk.com: I'm Not Afraid of Atheists or Their Movie
"You need to get ready for the 'new atheism' to become a factor in every facet of our culture. We won't get ready for that if we protest The Golden Compass or the twenty atheist-friendly Hollywood products that are coming soon to a theater near you. No, it's time to love your enemy.... It's time to find ways for the light to shine winsomely. It's time to be a servant for Jesus' sake. It's time to give a reason for the hope that is in us. It's time to turn and face the atheist challenge and not protest, run away or declare war."
JunkYardBlog: Sunday-go-to-meetin' blogging
Johnny Cash, the Carter Family, and the Statler Brothers sing "Peace in the Valley" and Billy Graham sings the praises of just-opened Texas Stadium in this clip from Graham's 1971 Greater Southwest Crusade.
