Rick Warren, the mega-star evangelical pastor of Saddleback Church, used to be known as the Hawaiian-shirted preacher. Eventually he became so associated with the shirts that he stopped wearing them out of fear it “started becoming a shtick.” Nevertheless, Warren continues to wear casual...

According to Pew, almost half of Americans want to live somewhere else. Put another way, though, just over half are happy with where they are. Apparently, liberals tend to be attracted to San Francisco, conservatives to Phoenix, and everyone to Denver. Meanwhile, young people are attracted to urban environments....

Ted Haggard, the famous former evangelical pastor and ex-leader of the National Association of Evangelicals, is once again on the media circuit thanks to a new HBO documentary by Alexandra Pelosi titled “The Trials of Ted Haggard“. As you will recall, in November of 2006 a homosexual prostitute...

The only word for this map is yikes. See the related fivethirtyeight.com article.

Given that the stimulus bill before Congress may be the most significant federal government-created economic policy since the Great Society, understanding the particulars isn’t a bad idea. ReadtheStimulus.org has links to the relevant documents and summaries.

There’s been a lot of hand wringing this week over Obamamania and the problems inherent in a populace’s desire to coronate Obama as king or, worse, Messiah. Mr. Wendling touched upon such themes in this post and then offered a video which seemed only to confirm such fears. Frankly, I couldn’t...

I found this amusing. Looking for information about today’s anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, I Googled “sanctity of life day,” and was surprised to find that the third result was a White House press release proclaiming “National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2009.”...

Taking a break from serious posts for a moment, former French President Jacques Chirac was rushed to the hospital yesterday after being mauled by a clinically depressed poodle. (via Andrew Sullivan) Comments open for jokes.

I’ve read commentary from a bunch of conservatives who are upset about Rev. Joseph E. Lowery’s benediction at President Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday. Glenn Beck hated it and I’ve read others even call it racist. The text setting people off is the closing stanza: Lord, in the...

This started out as a response to “Spartan” in the comments of this post, but it got so long I decided to make it a post of its own… How exactly have you teased apart the celebration of Obama himself from the celebration of the racial victory (and from the celebration of the departure...