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Methodist Madame

Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong May-ling), once First Lady of China, regally performed on the global stage across 75 years until dying at age 106 in 2003. Her latest biography, The Last Empress, by Hannah Pakula, debuted this month. Madame's ...

From MARK TOOLEY, American Spectator,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Chiang Kai-shek,  U.S. Congress,  Hollywood Bowl,  Laura D Tyson,  U.S. Republican Party

Chile Honors Pro-Soviet Churchman

Recently the Chilean government honored former World Council of Churches (WCC) chief Emilio Castro, a Uruguayan with Chilean roots, for his opposition to the Pinochet dictatorship during the 1980s. The award might have some merit, if Castro had ...

From MARK TOOLEY, American Spectator,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Reader's Digest,  Karl Marx,  Karl Barth

Potemkins in Pyongyang

In a rare moment of curiosity, a recent World Council of Churches (WCC) visitor at a North Korean Potemkin-style government-run church in Pyongyang apparently asked why no children were present. Perhaps this WCC official felt like the Dick Van ...

From MARK TOOLEY, American Spectator,  27 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Kim Jong-il,  Dick Van Dyke,  Samuel Kobia

Evangelicals and Immigration

The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) has adopted a new pro–liberalized immigration stance that is creating ripples among its conservative membership. Although NAE had touted its board's supposedly unanimous backing, at least one prominent ...

From MARK TOOLEY, American Spectator,  21 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Chuck Schumer,  Salvation Army,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate

Holier Than Obama

Potential nukes for an apocalyptic-minded and rabidly anti-American (not mention anti-Semitic) Iranian president do not much interest the National Council of Churches (NCC). So the NCC, whose board met in late September, is insisting that the U.S. ...

From MARK TOOLEY, American Spectator,  29 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  Barack Obama

Misremembering History

It's an article of faith for the secular and Religious Left that Western civilization is a pox upon the planet. According to this not-so-new mythology, the earth and its indigenous peoples were essentially good. But European civilization, corrupted ...

From MARK TOOLEY, American Spectator,  23 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Christopher Columbus,  Jim Wallis,  Mel Gibson,  Kit Carson,  John Wayne

Does God Favor an Unlimited State?

The Religious Left sacramentalizes nearly every proposed expansion of the Welfare State, with government-controlled health care its favorite sacrament. Supporting arguments are usual superficial: Jesus loved the poor, therefore the state must ...

From MARK TOOLEY, American Spectator,  8 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Jim Wallis

"Fundamentalism" Invades Manhattan

Apparently Christian "fundamentalism" briefly seized the pulpit of America's most famously liberal church, but, as the New York Times reported, the invasion has been repulsed. Built in 1930 with Rockefeller money as a cathedral to progressive ...

From MARK TOOLEY, American Spectator,  31 Aug 2009
Related Topics: John D. Rockefeller,  Daniel Ortega,  Olof Palme,  William Sloane Coffin,  Fidel Castro

Playing With Pacifism

The modern Evangelical Left does not want to defend America, and the great mid-20th century Protestant theologian Karl Barth might partly be at fault. Much of the modern Evangelical Left is literally or functionally pacifist, looking to thinkers ...

From MARK TOOLEY, American Spectator,  25 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Karl Barth,  Jim Wallis,  University of Notre Dame,  John Howard,  Reinhold Niebuhr

The Promised Land of Government Controlled Health Care

Evangelical Left activist Jim Wallis of Sojourners is rallying liberal wayfarers for the Promised Land of government-controlled health care, announcing his "40 Days for Health Reform" crusade during an August 10 media conference call. The media ...

From MARK TOOLEY, American Spectator,  13 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Jim Wallis,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress

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