Faith: March 2008 Archives

The New York Sun: Attorney General Gets Emotional In Calling for Surveillance Power

Attorney General Mukasey puts my mind at ease: "So far as focusing investigations, we investigate where the threat is coming from. The threat is coming from Islamist extremism. It's not coming from Calvinism. We'd be out of our minds not to mention the waste of resources to look everyplace simply in the name of being correct." (Via Founders Blog.)

TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Fallacy #1: The Founders Weren't Deists

First in a series about the faith of the Founding Fathers. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin may not have been orthodox, but they "believed in an omnipotent god who intervened in the lives of men and nations" and "that their actions in life would be judged and determine their fate in the afterlife." And many other members of the Constitutional Convention -- Patrick Henry, Sam Adams, John Hancock, John Witherspoon among them -- were orthodox Christians. (Via Rod Dreher.)

Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian - Telegraph

As a kid, I always wondered what might happen if a Christian could secretly work his way up through the Soviet hierarchy. I guess we found out. "It was through St Francis that I arrived at the Church, so it was important that I came to visit his tomb.... I feel very emotional to be here at such an important place not only for the Catholic faith, but for all humanity." (Via Peter Robinson at The Corner, who notes that Reagan suspected that Gorbachev was a secret believer.)

World On the Web: Artless Christianity

"[B]ad Christian art cripples our compassionate imagination. When the bad guys practically have signs in a novel or movie labeling them as such, and the soon-to-be saved characters are similarly cordoned off, we lose sight of the wickedness that inhabits saints, and the despair that inhabits the hearts of the lost."