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Posted at 11:22pm on Apr. 14, 2008 A Call to All Evangelicals in New Media
By Ben Domenech
Over at the Evangelical Outpost, the announcement of the annual EO symposium should be shared all across the various tubes of the interwebs. The details:
Responses to the following questions will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, April 25th:
If the medium affects the message, how will the Christian message be affected by the new media?
The top five posts chosen by our panel of judges (James Kushiner from Touchstone magazine's Mere Comments, Melinda Penner from Stand to Reason, Matt Lewis from Townhall.com, and Matthew Anderson from Mere Orthodoxy) will receive:
Many awesome prizes - go there to read them.
Posted at 11:49am on Nov. 27, 2007 Huckabee Plays The Religion Card
A Losing Hand?
By California Yankee
Republican presidential wannabee Mike Huckabee has played his experience as a Southern Baptist minister and president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention into second place in Iowa polls.
Huckabee has moved from about 8 percent last summer, to 24 percent in a recent Washington Post-ABC News survey.
The Los Angeles Times reports Huckabee being backed by 44 percent of evangelical Protestants, who make up four in 10 Republican caucus goers. But the Times points out there are doubts about Huckabee:
Some conservatives are leery of his views on taxes, pointing to his Arkansas record.The Club for Growth, which advocates limited government and lower taxes, points out that as governor he increased taxes on sales, gasoline, cigarettes and nursing homes. He says he had little choice because of court-ordered spending increases or rising federal entitlement spending for programs "over which you don't have executive control."
That's an issue which was hammered home by conservative columnist By Robert Novak in an article titled, "The False Conservative:"
Read on.
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