Tony Campolo interviewed in the Edmonton Journal:

Q. Do you believe non-Christians can go to heaven?

A. That’s a good question to ask because the way we stand is we contend that trusting in Jesus is the way to heaven. However, we do not know who Jesus will bring into the kingdom and who He will not. We are very very careful about pronouncing judgment on anybody. We leave judgment in the hands of God and we are saying Jesus is the way. We preach Jesus, but we have no way of knowing to whom the grace of God is extended.

I find it curious that Rick Warren has heartily endorsed the presidency of Barak Obama ahead of Hillary Clinton. What does Barak have that Hillary lacks? Can anyone enlighten me? After the State Of The Union Adress on Tuesday evening, Hillary greatly outshone Barak when they were each given an extensive interview by ABC’s Charles Gibson (and Charles tries really hard to be fair). Hillary is far more articulate on real issues like the war in Iraq and has far more life experience. Why isn’t Rick supporting her?

Author and former professor at Bethel Theological Seminary,LeRon Schultz (who I admit I know little about) makes this wierd comment about propositional truth,

“From a theological perspective, this fixation with propositions can easily lead to the attempt to use the finite tool of language on an absolute Presence that transcends and embraces all finite reality. Languages are culturally constructed symbol systems that enable humans to communicate by designating one finite reality in distinction from another. The truly infinite God of Christian faith is beyond all our linguistic grasping, as all the great theologians from Irenaeus to Calvin have insisted, and so the struggle to capture God in our finite propositional structures is nothing short of linguistic idolatry.”

It seems to me that language (groups of WORDs) is a gift from God, unique to mankind and the exact tool He chose in written form to communicate His story from the beginning of time. While I agree that God is “beyond all our linguistic grasping” our understanding of Him (not our instinctive knowledge) comes precisely from His written Word. I’m reminded of I John 1:1, “In the beginning was the WORD and the WORD was with God and the WORD was God. Why is God called WORD?

Dr. Heidi Cullen of the Weather Channel (B.A. Eastern Religions) has raised the bar on any scientist who would DARE to question or be skeptical of man-made global warming. She “…is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to “Holocaust Deniers” and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists.” This interesting article on the website of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Words outlines the Nazi-like tactics of this whole crowd. Pretty frightening when one considers the political power they have. This stuff is all over the net this weekend (FINALLY!). Will liberal Chrsitians finally wake-up and see the handwriting on the wall?

The National Association of Evangelicals today sold it’s name to the global warming environmentalists. The deal was brokered by a Richard Cizik, vice-president of governmental affairs for the NAE who states, “… I had a conversion experience on the climate issue not unlike my conversion to Christ.” What an incredible equation to make! And then he claims that he doesn’t worship the earth, he just wants us all to drive a Prius. These are the people who brought us the “What Would Jesus Drive?” campaign.

In a recent interview that you can read here he was asked, “So you are confident that your community will come to see the common goals it shares with environmentalists?” and his response was, “So long as we explain it the right way…much of the challenge is reframing the environmental issue for the evangelical community as a people issue.”

In other words, as soon as he can figure out the right marketing strategy to get into the evangelical mind-set, he can couch the argument in terms that we will all accept. WOW! Didn’t something like that happen in the garden of…? Oh, never mind.

Dated: January 16, 2007

Today, as the nation celebrates Religious Freedom Day, Exodus International, the world’s largest ministry to those desiring freedom from unwanted homosexuality, joins pro-family groups around the nation in urging Congress to stop a hate crimes bill that would penalize those with faith-based beliefs about homosexuality.