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...Iraq. There is rarely any thought of how a blink will be carried out, or the contradictory impact that his blinks might have on one another. David Kuo, a former deputy director of the President's Office of Faith- Based and Community Initiatives, argued last week on the Beliefnet website that the President had blinked at the well-publicized faith-based antipoverty initiative and then forgotten it. Kuo, who is a friend of mine and truly believes in the President's commitment to the policy, remains mystified by the disconnect between passion and action. Blinks are ephemeral; policy is distressingly...
Many conservative Christians would encourage Graham to speak boldly. A recent poll by the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Beliefnet website found that 89% of evangelical leaders thought it "very important" to "insist on the truth of the Gospel" to Muslims. These leaders sincerely want to emulate Jesus' love by acts of feeding and healing, says Southern Baptist official R. Albert Mohler Jr., but "aid alone is not sufficient to bring a person to a saving knowledge of Christ." They have grown increasingly eager to expose Islam's "unreached" millions to Jesus. Missionary numbers in Muslim lands...
...calls to prayer, seek advice and philosophy. And I don't have to go anywhere. Or, with a laptop and connection, I can go anywhere. In the past decade, the promise of interactivity that came with the Internet has flourished in the field of faith. Steven Waldman, founder of Beliefnet, one of the more successful religion sites, says: "People can customize their experiences so they can effectively have a 'devout' experience one day and a 'seeker' experience the next...
...some cases, it's the only spiritual sanctuary available. Waldman says Beliefnet receives more visitors from China than any other country save the U.S. "We're not exactly sure why that is," he says, "but we think it's because of our coverage of Buddhism, the Dalai Lama and Falun Gong...