Christianity

Nick Benton's Corner: Deliver Us from Rick Warren

Posted Tue, 08/26/2008 - 15:08 by carol white
Posted with permission from Nicholas Benton owner/editor of the Falls Church News Press Deliver us from Rick Warren by Nicholas Benton Last weekend's spectacle in Orange County, California, was not a debate on faith and values between the two presidential candidates. It was a showcase for the elevation of yet another right-wing fundamentalist preacher, an heir to the late Jerry Falwell anointed as a media darling to be its resident expert on faith-related matters.

Bill Moyers Hosts Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Posted Sat, 04/26/2008 - 06:25 by carol white
When the infamous Rev. Wright sound bites began to dominate world news, I like many Americans really cringed. It was not only that his remarks were jarring--"Could he really believe that killing two thousand innocent Americans was just retribution for......... for anything?" I asked myself. And so on, and on and on and on as the news media relentlessly repeated the same story line.