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Joe Bob Parties With the Atheists

Joe Bob Briggs — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:02:08 -0500

The biggest security guard I’ve ever seen in my life–this guy could work for Blackwater, and he’s got the coiled listening device spilling out of his left ear to prove it–has parked his burly self squarely in front of me, making it clear that I’d best slink back against the wall while the Rock Star of Atheism makes her entrance and a hundred entranced admirers take a collective breath, not quite believing they’re in her presence.

Why Benny Hinn Became Our Wacky Neighbor

John Bloom — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:27:51 -0500

If you drive west from Dallas, through the neo-moderne lunarscape of a pod city called Las Colinas, past a massive international airport on a denuded prairie, into the warren of faceless office buildings that make up cosmopolitan Grapevine, you'll never find Benny Hinn.

He wants it that way.

Jeremiah Overboard

John Bloom — Thu, 1 May 2008 10:17:10 -0500

Did I just see what I think I saw?

Did the media tell Barack Obama, “If you’ll denounce and disavow your pastor, we’ll let you continue running for President”?

I have two questions, one for the press, one for Obama.

First the press:

What happened to the Mitt Romney Agreement?

Jeremiah Wright 1, Sound Bite 0

Kevin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:34 -0500

Since when do you have “amens” at the National Press Club? Apparently when Jeremiah Wright is the speaker!

I once knew a city editor in Philadelphia who would say “amen” to a dry Rob Roy at 2 in the afternoon, which is the closest anyone ever came to exuberance in the newsrooms of my youth. But anybody who watched any cable this past weekend could be forgiven for thinking that Rupert Murdoch just launched a new Jeremiah Wright Channel,

Stein Nukes Dawkins, Then Freaks Out

Kevin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:24:57 -0500

By Heidi Martinuzzi

Richard Dawkins is going to be very sorry today. There's a moment in Ben Stein's new movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed that the revered biologist is not going to like at all.

Internet Criminals Make Garrison Winner of March Indulgence Awards

Michael — Wed, 2 Apr 2008 22:37:34 -0500

By John Bloom

One way we can tell that a Door article is really really popular is that people steal it, filch it, grab it, download it, and post it all over the Internet, sometimes giving us credit, sometimes treating us like The Wittenburg Doormat,

Larry Norman: The Original Jesus Rocker Goes to Jesus

Michael — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:29:32 -0600

Much of the world scarcely noticed when Larry Norman passed away last Sunday at 2:45 a.m., but thousands of music makers, both Christian and non-, mourned and wept.

Jesus and Larry and Me

Michael — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:54:06 -0600

By Bob Gersztyn

Larry Norman, the godfather of Jesus Rock, always said he was just putting Jesus back into the music that Elvis Presley had taken out of the black churches. "Why should the devil have all the good music?" Larry would shout while pounding his piano, Jerry-Lee-Lewis style, searing guitars screaming behind him.

The Copeland/Huckabee Love Affair

Michael — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:03:05 -0600

Billionaire evangelist oilman cattle rancher Kenneth Copeland, who sits so high atop the “prosperity gospel” pyramid that he has hundreds of “franchise” churches whose pastors send money back up the pipeline, spent much of his annual ministers conference last week talking about how he stonewalled the Senate Finance Committee, then boasted about having Mike Huckabee on his team.

Mitt Romney Endorses God

Joe Bob Briggs — Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:04:26 -0600

You’ll learn more about the Mormon Church from the “Landmark Moments in LDS History” Collectors Plate than you will from Mitt Romney’s 21-minute speech