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Apparently, the folks at The New Republic are familiar with Sir Big Daddy Weave. Michelle Cottle, senior editor of The New Republic has picked up a bit of my man-crush lingo in her latest post appropriately entitled Richard Land’s Man Crush. Check it out: RICHARD LAND’S MAN CRUSH:While, as Chait points out, many social conservatives [...]

Last week James Dobson caused a small ruckus after a “private e-mail” of his was exposed in which he lambasted Fred Thompson. Here’s the e-mail: “Isn’t Thompson the candidate who is opposed to a Constitutional amendment to protect marriage, believes there should be 50 different definitions of marriage in the U.S., favors McCain-Feingold, won’t talk [...]

The John Leland Award    Love is in the air In the rising of the sun Love is in the air When the day is nearly done And I don’t know if you’re an illusion Don’t know if I see it true But you’re something that I must believe in And you’re there when I [...]

As a follow-up to last week’s post entitled The Faith of Fred Thompson, I recommend that you check out the blog of Brian Kaylor and his post Land’s Lie? From Brian’s blog in full: In my Ethics Daily article last week on Fred Thompson’s church attendance, Southern Baptist leader Richard Land claimed that Thompson “is [...]

Fellow Baptist blogger Brian Kaylor has a breaking news story today over at EthicsDaily.com. Brian has uncovered information about where (if???) Freddy T attends church. Let’s look at a snippet from Brian’s piece: Questions about Thompson’s religious affiliation have dogged the former senator and star of “Law & Order” since Focus on the Family founder [...]

In the September/October issue of LIBERTY magazine, G. Edward Reid offers a thoughtful critique of Richard Land’s The Divided States of America? What Liberals AND Conservatives are missing in the God-and-Country shouting match. LIBERTY magazine is a religious freedom outreach project sponsored by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Reid’s fascinating review details Land’s neo-majoritarian approach (i.e. [...]

Fred Thompson has found more love from Southern Baptist leaders. An article in the Tuscaloosa News quotes Morris Chapman, President of the Executive Committee of the SBC, as saying… “Another Southern Baptist called Fred Thompson the Ronald Reagan of the South, and I think he has some of that appeal. He is a magnetic personality. [...]

Tom Ascol is perhaps the most well known Calvinist in the Southern Baptist Convention. He serves as the Executive Director of Founders Ministries – an organization that desires the return of the SBC to her Reformed roots. Over at the Founder’s Ministries blog, Tom Ascol is complaining that a public school in San Diego has [...]

Barely two months ago, Rev. Wade Burleson caught hell for his decision to meet with President Jimmy Carter and other organizers of the New Baptist Covenant. The Baptist Blogosphere was flooded with allegations that President Carter was a Universalist – one who believes that all will be saved and spared from hell. Suffice it to [...]

We’ve written about Richard Land’s man-crush on Fred Thompson a time or two before. Tricky Dick has weighed in heavily again on Fred… “I’m around a lot of Baptists,” Land said. “They find Fred Thompson to be a tantalizing combination of charisma, conviction and electability. He’s got a Reaganesque ability to connect with ordinary folk [...]