Quickly now, name the first three things that come to your mind when you hear the name Ted Nugent. Wait – make that the first three things that come to your mind which you can say in polite company. Recently I saw a bumper sticker: “Nugent for President – God, Guns, and Rock ‘n’...

Today our nation honors the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., a Christian activist who led the civil rights movement using nonviolent means.  He was assassinated for it. And though the civil rights movement continued, and though I believe that history is teleological, lately it doesn’t seem to be moving...

With recent calls by influential politico-religious leader Glenn Beck to abandon churches that promote social justice and warnings from the FDA that one’s eggs could be tainted with salmonella, many Westerners are reexamining brands.  Those in the church are rethinking their local brand of Christianity...

I recently sat down with my remote to catch up on world events like every responsible citizen does: watching Stephen Colbert. I learned that Fox News pundit Glenn Beck received a one-hundred-year plan from God himself. This plan will reverse the course of American history. We will again become a Christian...

Editor’s Note: Last month and then again last week, Fox News host Glenn Beck featured as his guest, Dr. Richard Lee, pastor of First Redeemer Church in Cummings, Georgia and General Editor of “The American Patriot’s Bible”, a book which (in its own words) “intersects the...

Someday, fifty years from now, a future Glenn Beck-style pundit will recall the bygone memories of our youth, and he’ll queue up a clip of the balloon boy saga, when a kid named Falcon fooled a nation by floating away in a silver balloon, possibly imitating a Pixar film, only it turned out he...

I’m not here to pile on to Glenn Beck.  I don’t particularly like the guy, but mainly because I don’t like nationalism, or the people who make money off arousing it.  Beck strikes me as a far less intelligent version of Rush Limbaugh (who, despite ideological differences, I still...