The Internet Monk wrote a three part series on the evangelical in the US this past week. Interesting thoughts; he’s in the thick of it, and has an opinion worth reading.
He got a lot of feedback.
A Canadian responded with his critique and look at evangelicalism north of the US border; and no feedback. I’m not surprised by that. [...]

US Conservatism online is not doing well.
Culture11, a corporate model for social conservatives never got out of beta. Now several people including former Evangelical Outpost/Family Research blogger-tech Joe Carter is out of work. From an optimistic interview in September 2008:
Culture11 is a new online magazine/social network for “cultural conservatives.” We launched the site last week [...]

In February 2008 Nancy Noll, a former writer for the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel discovered that a White House staffer had plagiarized in a column he had written for her former employer. By the time the digging was done the paper found that 20 of the 38 columns he had written had plagiarized content.
Tim Goeglein resigned the day [...]

Thank God for geeky ministers.:^)
To be honest I don’t pay much attention to stats here at BDBO anymore. So I am really glad Tall Skinny Kiwi blogs about more than missions because I haven’t been over to Feedburner in ages.
Feedburner is what I use here at BDBO and I wasn’t paying attention to deadlines for transferring [...]

Former head of The National Association of Evangelicals and independent mega church minister Ted Haggard is busy promoting a documentary about himself. “The Trials of Ted Haggard” will air in the US on HBO the end of the month.
Meantime, who benefits here and now?
A member of New Life Church tells NEWSCHANNEL 13 that Haggard took advantage [...]

A church roof collapsed in Sao Paulo Sunday during a service, 9 people are dead and 113 injured.
The disaster happened in the evangelical Reborn in Christ Christian Church, in the southern suburb of Cambuci around 7:00 pm on Sunday, while up to 600 worshipers were praying.
The church was known in Brazil and abroad as the [...]

Garth Tuner has gotta love this.
This is a great way to teach.
Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov
Welcome to the new WhiteHouse.gov. I’m Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House and one of the people who will be contributing to the blog.

My warmest regards and good wishes to the citizens of the USA.
What a day.
Here is the text of Rick Warren’s invocation.
Let us pray.
Almighty God, our Father, everything we see and everything we can’t see exists because of you alone. It all comes from you. It all belongs to you. It all exists for your glory.
History [...]