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John McCain’s Sermon: God vs. Country

Jul 2nd, 2008 | By Skye Jethani | Category: Culture, Features, Politics

Francis Wilkinson from the New York Times recalls an interview with John McCain two years ago in which the senator told the story about leading worship services for other POWs during captivity in Vietnam. The sermon McCain recounts gives clues to his ideas about God and government. From the article:

I was intrigued by a passage in which he described leading religious services in Hanoi for fellow prisoners of war. “Not because of my particular excess of religious zeal,” he explained, “but because I’d gone to that boarding school and, of course, to the [Naval] Academy,

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Lifestyles of the Rich and Religious

Nov 9th, 2007 | By Skye Jethani | Category: Church, Culture, Politics

Many people I know have an impression of Christianity based largely upon what they see while surfing the television—an impression that I do not fit and work hard to deconstruct. Televangelists are loud and energetic; I’m rarely the life of the party. Televangelists have big hair; I have no hair. Televangelists fly around in private jets; I ride a bike to work to save on gas.

My work to deconstruct the image of gold-gilded Christianity appears to be getting some help from the United States Senate. Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, is investigating possible financial shenanigans on the part of six widely known TV preachers. From Ted Olsen’s article at ChristianityToday.com: