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Podcast: Melissa Rogers Interview

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:13:15 PDT

Podcast (27MB Mp3) of Dr. Bruce Prescott's 7-12-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Melissa Rogers, Director of Wake Forest University School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs. ...

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ACLU Seeks to End Censorship of Religious Material

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:00:07 PDT

The ACLU has sent a letter to the Superintendent of Rappahannock, Virginia's Regional Jail demanding that he put an end to a policy that censors biblical passages from the incoming mail received by...

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Thanks for the Kind Words

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:14:55 PDT

Robert Parham at Ethics Daily has posted a complimentary review of the program we are putting together for our New Baptist Covenant regional meeting. I am most appreciative of his concluding...

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AIG Still Shameless About Feeding at the Public Trough

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:31:12 PDT

AIG wants to dole out millions more in taxpayer dollars for bonuses and incentives. Ronald Reagan's imaginary welfare queens could never match the gall of real life Wall Street executives.

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Gimme Five

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:33:12 PDT

It slipped by me, but a couple weeks ago I completed my fifth year of blogging. It doesn't seem like it has been that long, until I think about it.

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Is Global Warming Real?

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:34:20 PDT

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the answer is YES. The average temperature is rising. Here's a link to NOAA's recently released talking points about Climate...

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Second Month Photo

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:09:57 PDT

While I was spending time with the brethren at the CBF General Assembly in Houston, Kylene was celebrating James' second month down in Mississippi. She's convinced that he's the most remarkable...

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Underestimating Unemployment

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:51 PDT

Vice President Biden said the administration "misread" the economy in January. They underestimated the level of unemployment to expect. The chart above is from the administration's research for...

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Podcast: James Madison Corrects Sally Kern

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:04:20 PDT

Podcast (7MB Mp3)of Dr. Bruce Prescott's 7-5-09 "Religious Talk" radio program. As a corrective to Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern's "Proclamation for Theocracy" and Hobby Lobby's full-page...

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Regarding Sally Kern's Proclamation

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:03:31 PDT

OETA, the PBS affiliate in Oklahoma City, interviewed me this afternoon to get my opinions about State Representative Sally Kern's "Proclamation for Morality". The most concise statement that I made...

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Government Spending Made Transparent

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:52:15 PDT

Yesterday the U.S. federal government unveiled its "IT Dashboard" -- a website that is supposed to make government spending transparent to anyone who takes the time to peruse the information. I...

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Beware America's Right-Wing Mullahs

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:55:52 PDT

Frank Schaeffer, son of the late Francis Schaeffer, has posted an essay about the theocratic aspirations of the American Religious Right. In explicit terms, from an insider's perspective, he...

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Iran Follows U.S. Precedent

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:44:17 PDT

For more than five years the world has heard reports that the United States was torturing suspected terrorists to get false confessions about WMD's, or links to Al Queda, or plots to attack U.S....

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Old, White & In Decline

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:12:33 PDT

According to Reuters, "Southern Baptists (and Republicans): old, white and in decline." You'll be surprised who they source for their information.

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Days of the Dollar Standard Numbered

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:24:10 PDT

BBC is reporting that the world's greatest creditor nation (China) is forcefully contending that the world should no longer use the currency of one of the world's greatest debtor nations (the U.S.)...

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Broadway Baptist Insufficiently Homophobic

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:02:14 PDT

Yesterday, messangers at the Southern Baptist Convention expelled Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas from the SBC. There was no debate. The vote took about thirty seconds. Boradway's...

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Haskell County Appeals Ten Commandments Decision

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:24:58 PDT

A panel of three George W. Bush appointees unanimously agreed that the Ten Commandments monument on the courthouse lawn in Stigler, Oklahoma is unconstitutional. It would be hard to assemble a more...

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Podcast: Timothy Eaton Interview

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:45:57 PDT

Podcast (27MB Mp3) of Dr. Bruce Prescott's 6-21-09 "Religious Talk" radio interview with Dr. Timothy Eaton, President of Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College in Moore, Oklahoma. We talk about the...

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On the Beginning of an End for an Islamic Theocracy

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:05:17 PDT

Fareed Zakaria, in an interview on CNN, reveals the significance of current events in Iran: Fareed Zakaria: One of the first things that strikes me is we are watching the fall of Islamic...

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Baptists Call for Clean Energy

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:59:00 PDT

Robert Parham, Executive Director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, wrote a letter to congress supporting the "American Clean Energy Act." More than 140 Baptist leaders from the across the country...

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On Token Diversity at the Southern Baptist Convention

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:25:28 PDT

Robert Parham has posted an essay comparing the programs for this year's national conventions of American Baptists, Southern Baptists and Cooperative Baptists. American Baptists and Cooperative...

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On Open Source Hydrogen Cars

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:07:55 PDT

BBC has posted a story about an "Open Source" hydrogen car which will be developed by a non-profit corporation. "Open Source" is a term familiar in the world of the internet and computer software....

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Well Said, Greenwald

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:00:42 PDT

Glenn Greenwald at Salon has posted an astute blog post about the myopia of those who have been beating the drum to go to war with Iran: Much of the same faction now claiming such concern for the...

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Peak Oil Has Officially Arrived

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:24:37 PDT

For the first time ever, the proven reserves of the world's oil supply are officially admitted to be in decline. Michael T. Klare succinctly summarizes this sea change in the economy in the...

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Leaderless Resistance in Action

bprescott@mainstreambaptists.org (Dr. Bruce Prescott) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:09:53 PDT

CNN's coverage of the attack by a white supremecist at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. has repeatedly emphasized that the attacker was a "lone wolf" and that the FBI has infiltrated...

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