ALMOST LOST in the news cycle already was the announcement last week that the U.S. is sending military advisers–Special Forces soldiers–to Uganda to help chase down the Lord’s Resistance Army,… Read more »
THE HOUSE of Representatives passed the Senate’s health care reform bill Sunday night, and we comment on it, but only briefly. If you were surprised, then we’re surprised that you… Read more »
A SECRETIVE religious group that wields power in Washington, D.C. and other world capitals — sounds like the basis for Dan Brown’s next novel, but it’s real. Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS are being coopted by the New Age movement, and most don’t even know it. Much of the reading we’ve been doing this week has revolved around that fact, and a good part of tonight’s show explores some of the evidence. In short, dominionists, emerging churchers, and ecumenical groups are all aiming for the same goal as New Agers: heaven on Earth. Which may explain, for example, why influential New Ager Paul Temple, founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, donates so much money to the secretive and politically connected evangelical group The Family.
GOVERNOR Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) has returned from his, um, weekend getaway to Argentina, and it’s our guess he wishes he was still in Buenos Aires. Also: Sanford’s connection to the… Read more »
