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...Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran are not ready for democracy. Despite all the patriotic, spread-the-good-news rhetoric, what the Bush Administration and others fail to recognize is that democracy must come from within the heart of the people, and Islamic societies are ill-prepared for democracy. Charles Osteen, North Platte...
...Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran are not ready for democracy. Despite all the patriotic, spread-the-good-news rhetoric, what the Bush Administration and others fail to recognize is that democracy must come from within the heart of the people, and Islamic societies are ill-prepared for democracy. Charles Osteen, NORTH PLATTE...
...SEEDS OF REVIVAL Starting in 2005, the party began to test the holy waters. Party officials reached out to religious-news services; headquarters urged state chairs to make lists of moderate pastors and hold meetings to get acquainted. Pelosi attended the opening of megapastor Joel Osteen's new Houston church. On the Hill, lawmakers were hungry for guidance about winning back the values voter. Wallis, whose book God's Politics had set strategists humming on both sides, helped coach lawmakers on how to approach the budget as a moral document. Pelosi huddled with her advisers and emerged with blueprints...
...Does God want you to be rich?" delivered a one-dimensional view of Lakewood Church and Joel Osteen. He leads his congregation toward a better life by focusing on positive thinking, helping others and improving physical well-being while keeping God and Christianity central. Osteen is a caring and driven man of God who inspires those around him. He's the reason I have developed a close relationship with God, for which I will be forever grateful...
...said, "By their fruits you will know them," and for some, Corinthian Pointe is a very convincing sort of fruit. Hard-line Prosperity theology may always seem alien to those with enough money to imagine making more without engaging God in a kind of spiritual quid pro quo. And Osteen's version, while it abandons part of that magical thinking, may strike some as self-centered rather than God centered. But American Protestantism is a dynamic faith. Caldwell's version reminds us that there is no reason a giving God could not invest even an awkward and needy creed with...