Clinton-Obama Debate in Cleveland - Entire Debate from MSNBC

We are too easily seduced

As promised here are some more reflections from Johnson, The Message of Acts in the History of Redemption (see post on 1/31/08). At the end of the chapter "The Great King Above All Gods," Johnson makes an observation that is particularly timely give this season of primaries and political speculation. He writes:

"We [Christians] are too easily seduced by the manipulation of religious affections in the service of political agendas, too easily tempted to promote the kingdom of God through alliance with the power brokers of our culture. God calls us, of course, to be good citizens and good neighbors, not withdrawn from society and its problems, but rather engaged in the pursuit of mercy and justice. But Luke's portrait of the gospel's confrontation with 'institutional religion' in the Greco-Roman world reminds us that our combat weapons are not the feeble weapons of the flesh."

"Mitt Romney throws in the towel"

The article "Mitt Romney throws in the towel"at the Economist.com offers (as regular readers of the Economist have come to expect) a concise, thoughtful, and informative analysis of Romney's withdraw from the GOP race and its implications for John McCain and the challenges McCain now faces as the Republican front runner. Check it out here.

I couldn't agree more

After watching the Democratic response to the President's State of the Union address last night, I couldn't agree more with the comments of John Bresnahahn of CBS:

"And gosh, she was terrifically boring. Today, I went from Barack Obama to George Bush to Kathleen Sebelius, and it seemed like I was going downhill in rhetorical ability-o-meter. Wow. Here's the text of Sebelius' speech, which was actually pretty good if you read the text. That is, if you stayed awake through her delivery . . ." (John Bresnahan, "Sebelius Is Up Now")