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Praying Against Arizona
No doubt spiritually energized by the latest anti-Arizona court ruling, a phalanx of religious left groups have orchestrated an “Isaiah 58 Solidarity Vigil and Fast for Arizona” across America to protest Arizona’s new immigration enforcement law and to push for national liberalized immigration.

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Was the American Revolution Just?
Americans of all stripes recently celebrated our country's 234th birthday. But it is fashionable by some on the religious left to discredit the American Revolution as primarily the selfish reaction against reasonable taxation.

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The Pearly Gatecrasher
The evangelical left’s penetration of American evangelical culture accelerated with Sojourners chief Jim Wallis’s high profile appearance at the annual “Lifest” Christian music festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin earlier this month.

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A Surprising Compromise: General Assembly Finds Middle Way on Mideast
It looked as if the 2010 Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly might come to blows over the Middle East. The atmosphere in the assembly’s Middle East Peacemaking Committee was, if anything, more confrontational than in other committees dealing with hot-button sexuality issues.

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"I don't know if ECM [the Emergent Church Movement] can 'teach' the Mainline anything, frankly. I have always kind of thought that the ECM is the vehicle that is dragging Evangelicalism into a form of faith similar to what the mainline churches experience."

- The Rev. Landon Whitsitt, recent installed as Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Vice-Moderator.

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