Trailer for Walk the Line (Johnny Cash biopic) online (via Amy Welborn). And is Phoenix doing his own singing? Sounds like it.

I am 22% Hippie. What? Am I a Republican? Why did I even bother taking this test?! I guess I’ll go back to my George W. Bush fan club and tell them I just wasted 10 minutes of my life. At least I don’t stink, man. Take theHippie Test@ FualiDotCom

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the…

Continuing with my lazy-blogging, let me throw out another article written by someone else. This essay, by Croatian theologian Miroslav Volf analyzes the ecclesiology of 1 Peter in light of Ernst Troeltsch’s church/sect dichotomy which H. Richard Niebuhr picked up on in his Christ and Culture. Volf thinks that Christians should not be countercultural per…

Via Confessing Evangelical comes a discussion of The DaVinci Code and various pseudo-Christian neo-gnosticisms by N.T. Wright (go to page 22 of the PDF). Wright points out, among other things, that it was orthodoxy, not the privatized spirituality of the gnostics, that provided a challenge to the political status quo: [T]he divinity of Jesus is…

Since I criticized Joseph Bottum’s article on the “new fusionism,” it seems only fair to note that he has a really good article on capital punishment in this month’s FT. (Not that Mr. Bottum was losing sleep over criticisms from these parts!)

The Christian Century on Joel Osteen.It’s actually a pretty balanced article giving Osteen credit for having a multi-racial ministry for one thing. It also points out that the “prosperity” gospel isn’t necessarily as far from the Christian mainstream as one might think: In some ways Osteen echoes an ancient and venerable Christian tradition that borrows…

Since Alberto Gonzales does not have a public record of opposing Roe v. Wade or being otherwise pro-life, some media outlets seem to have dubbed him a “moderate” choice for the Supreme Court. Gene Healy explains why you should be troubled by a Gonzales nomination whatever your stance on abortion (via Unqualified Offerings). I ranted…

Disturbing piece from George Neumayr (via Amy Welborn): Each year in America fewer and fewer disabled infants are born. The reason is eugenic abortion. Doctors and their patients use prenatal technology to screen unborn children for disabilities, then they use that information to abort a high percentage of them. Without much scrutiny or debate, a…

From Newsweek (via Get Religion): Keeping Republicans and their conservative kin together won’t be easy. For the first time in a nomination fight, corporate lobbyists are determined to play a leading public role. They are concerned that an obsessive focus on abortion and gay marriage will jeopardize what they regard as a once-in-a-generation chance to…