Pro-life leader and leader of Clinton impeachment dies

Henry Hyde - R.I.P.

Trent, and Chip

Sen. Trent Lott has resigned to make money, we all suspect. Rep. Chip Pickering is the choice of many to take his place.

Questions: Is it good for Mississippi when a guy like Lott decides to quit in the middle of term for personal reasons - like cashing in? Is that ethical? Is there another reason he might have quit?

And Chip. Can he legitimately take the position of senator now that he has said he didn't want to be a Congressman, hence resigning, because he wanted to spend time with that wife and those five boys? Does THAT lack integrity?

Barry Bonds

Barry Bonds cheated to be the home run king and baseball superstar. Now that he is under indicted, what should MLB do with the guy?

Dogs?

What is it with Christians and their love for their pets. Billions spent each year because we "love" our animals?

Here.

What gives?

Biblical Worldview Question of the Day and Beginning Bibliography

Stuart Kellogg's question for us:

“Are Christians wrong to advocate a ‘get tough’ approach to crime without also getting involved to help prisoners adjust to life outside prison?”

And his reading list, with some I have added at the bottom. Do you have others you would add?

How Should We Then Live? Francis A. Schaeffer
How Now Shall We Live? Charles Colson/Nancy Pearcey
What We Can’t Not Know J. Budziszewski
The Tragedy of American Compassion Marvin Olasky
The Christian Mind Harry Blamires
Answer To Your Kids’ Questions Chuck Colson
The Good Life Charles Colson/Harold Fickett
Culture Matters T.M. Moore
Think Like Jesus George Barna

Friedeman additions:

Called to be Holy John Oswalt
The Universe Next Door James Sire
Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis

What is a Biblical Worldview?

Nine percent of "born-again" believers have a biblical worldview. Four percent of all Americans. And this is what Barna says the components of a biblical worldview are:

You believe:

• Absolute moral truth exists
• Absolute truth is defined by the Bible.
• Jesus Christ lived a sinless life
• God is the all powerful and all-knowing Creator of the universe, and he still rules it today
• Salvation is a gift from God that cannot be earned
• Satan is real
• Christians have a responsibility to share their faith in Christ with other people
• The Bible is accurate in all of its teachings.

Who "the religious" prefer

For more.

The Pew Forum conducted a survey to find out which candidates certain religious groups prefer. They surveyed Republicans and Democrats separately, dividing the data by the parties’ key religious constituents.

Giuliani garnered more support from white Catholics and white mainline Protestants than from white evangelicals, but 23% of white evangelicals still named him their top choice. Thanks to Catholics, who preferred him over the other candidates two-to-one, 32% of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters supported Giuliani.

Fred Thompson got almost equal support from white evangelicals (24%), and John McCain got slightly less (19%). Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney (rated the most religious candidate in another Pew survey) divided the bulk of the remaining evangelical vote, with Huckabee scoring 10% and Romney pulling in 9%.

Don't vote for a non-Christian. Wish it were that easy!

My new column.

Huckabee endorsed by Wildmon

OneNewsNow:

Dr. Don Wildmon, founder and chairman of the Mississippi-based American Family Association, has given his personal endorsement to Huckabee, who he says understands the needs of the United States and has the ability to lead the country in meeting those needs.

"I think he shares our values. Will we agree with Governor Huckabee on 100 percent of items? No, we will not," Wildmon offers. "Will there be some disagreement on values or areas that we think are less important than our major fight for the values? Yes, there will be some disagreement."

"But when you take the whole ball of wax, I think Governor Huckabee is the person we need," continues the ordained United Methodist pastor. "I think he has the skills to bring us together. I think he has the leadership and the vision, and I think he can take the country to that place where we need to be desperately at this point in our history."

In response to the endorsement, the Huckabee campaign issued a press release quoting the presidential hopeful as saying: "I'm proud to receive the support from such an influential member of the religious community. Rev. Wildmon and I share the same values on faith and family, which are keep issues for the Republican Party."

Wildmon notes that his endorsement is a personal one and not that of any group with which he may be associated.

An abortion doctor talks

And it ain't pretty.

In her forthcoming book “This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor” (Public Affairs), Dr. Wicklund describes her work, the circumstances that lead her patients to choose abortion, and the barriers — lack of money, lack of providers, violence in the home or protesters at clinics — that stand in their way.

But she said her main goal with the book was to encourage more open discussion of abortion and its prevalence.

“We don’t talk about it,” she said in a telephone interview. “People say, ‘Nobody I know has ever had an abortion,’ and that is just not true. Their sisters, their mothers have had abortions.”

Dr. Wicklund, 53, said that at current rates almost 40 percent of American women have an abortion during their child-bearing years, a figure supported by the Guttmacher Institute, which researches reproductive health policy. Abortion is one of the most common operations in the United States, she said, more common than tonsillectomy or removal of wisdom teeth. “Because it is such a secret,” she said, “we lose sight of how common it is.”

Thompson - a major abortion blunder

Novak.

Pat Robertson's endorsement of Giuliani

Brownback endorsement of McCain

Endorsement City!

Pat Robertson endorses Rudy Giuliani. Sam Brownback endorses John McCain. Don Wildmon endorses Mike Huckabee.

What do you think about these signs of support?

And who do you support?

Mississippi election predictions - got 'em?

Course you do! Tell us about them!

Beijing Olympics bans Bible

Here. Should we just go ahead and boycott the whole Games? Yes.