Yesterday morning, Mike Bullmore prefaced his sermon with an outstanding 135-second exhortation in light of the upcoming election on November 4.

An excerpt:

Let there be no loss of security, whoever is in office. . . . There’s no cause no matter what happens—ever—for those who belong to God to worry or complain or whine.

Listen to the whole thing (2:15 min.).

Over the last  couple of days, I read The Twelve Caeasars (cf. Wikipedia) by Suetonius. I marked up my print copy while listening to a 13-hour audio book. It is a gossipy chronicle with a fascinating perspective on the lives of the first twelve Roman Caesars that significantly intersects with Second Temple Judaism and the birth and spread of Christianity: Continue Reading »

Robert George’s “Obama’s Abortion Extremism” is moving.

For a summary of Robert George’s impressive background as well as a summary of the article, see Justin Taylor’s “Robert P. George: ‘Voting for the Most Extreme Pro-Abortion Political Candidate in American History Is Not the Way to Save Unborn Babies.’”

Update (10/16/08): Robert George and Yuval Levin’s “Obama and Infanticide” argues, “Obama’s latest excuse for opposing the Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection Act is that the law was ‘unnecessary’ because babies surviving abortions were already protected. It won’t fly.”

This post by Jeff Emanuel is quite funny: “Tale of the Tape: Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama.”

Douglas Wilson recently shared his initial observations on Sarah Palin. He concludes,

An issue that will be discussed among some conservative Christians is the propriety of electing a woman. Evangelical Christians are overwhelmingly hostile to feminism, and so what is with that? I have argued before from Isaiah 3:12—”children are their oppressors, and women rule over them”—that feminism is one of the things Scripture uses as an indicator of God’s judgment on a culture. I still believe that, and also believe that we are in fact under this particular judgment in our culture. But as a biblical absolutist, and not a simple traditionalist, I also want to make room for the occasional Deborah. Life is funny, and you should remember that in the Bible Deborah was the dame who upstaged a fellow named Barak. Kinda spooky when you think about it.

Pretty witty. See Judges 4–5. Deborah rose to the occasion when Barak lacked courage (e.g., 4:8, 14).

(The analogy Deborah : Barak :: Sarah Palin : Barack Obama breaks down, of course, not least since Deborah and Barak were on the “same team.”)

There’s a lot of wisdom in William F. Buckley Jr.’s famous rule of thumb for voting: “the rightward-most viable candidate.”

HT: my Dad (who has repeatedly explained this strategy to me over the last couple decades!)

Today Wayne Grudem published an article and participated in an interview in which he makes a strong case that conservative evangelicals should back Mitt Romney.

1. “Why Evangelicals Should Support Mitt Romney,” by Wayne Grudem.
2. “Dr. Wayne Grudem on another Evangelical endorsement of Mitt Romney,” interviewed by Hugh Hewitt.

Related: “Mitt Romney vs. Rudy Giuliani” and “Bob Jones Endorses Mitt Romney“

In light of my recent post on Mitt Romney, this news is especially interesting!

1. “Bob Jones Dean Endorses . . . Romney!” The Wall Street Journal Online.
2. “Bob Jones III endorses Romney for president,” The Greenville News (today’s lead story: the top headline on the front page).
3. “Romney nabs two nice names,” In the News at MittRomney.com.
4. “BJU Statement on Political Endorsements” (currently listed on the front page of www.bju.edu): “Bob Jones University has never officially endorsed political candidates and that policy has not changed. In endorsing Gov. Mitt Romney for president, Dr. Bob Jones III and Bob Taylor are speaking personally. As private citizens, we all have the privilege and responsibility to examine the options and come to a choice of conscience. It is in this role that these administrators have chosen to endorse Gov. Romney. Dr. Jones III’s and Dr. Taylor’s statements reflect their views as private citizens and not the view of Bob Jones University as an organization.”
5. “Dr. Albert Mohler On The Significance Of Bob Jones III’s Endorsement Of Mitt Romney,” interviewed by Hugh Hewitt.
6. “Why Evangelicals Should Support Mitt Romney,” by Wayne Grudem.
7. “Dr. Wayne Grudem on another Evangelical endorsement of Mitt Romney,” interviewed by Hugh Hewitt.

This morning Hugh Hewitt posted on his blog a “Memo to Evangelicals” from Mark DeMoss. DeMoss makes a fairly strong case why the GOP should choose Mitt Romney rather than Rudy Giuliani or one of the other candidates.