So far, I’ve seen two groups demonstrating — anti-abortion activists and xxxchurch.com
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You may be familiar with Biff Henderson, late night talk show David Letterman’s sidekick and the show’s Democratic Convention correspondent.
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DENVER — The Democrats are stressing faith at this year’s convention, evening organizing a “faith caucus” to unite “people of faith.”
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DENVER — The Democrats have got religion.

The Democratic National Convention week kicked off with an interfaith worship service and it will end tonight with a prayer by the former president-elect of the Christian Coalition.
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It’s a canine celebration featuring food — and Dr. Ruth! Click here for more on Elvis the Dog’s big day.

Crosswalk.com, a popular evangelical website, polled 777 of its site users about the upcoming presidential election. Here’s what they found:

McCain 81%
Not sure 10%
Obama 5%
Other 3%
Not voting 1%

On a related note, 32-year-old Relevant Magazine publisher Cameron Strang had been scheduled to give an invocation at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night. But Strang backed out as the convention neared, saying he didn’t want to appear to be endorsing Obama. (more…)

The Rev. Fidel “Butch” Montoya isn’t happy about being disinvited. The Rocky Mountain News quotes Democratic officials as saying they failed to properly vet Montoya before issuing him an invitation.

One person who will be appearing is North Little Rock native Charles Blake, the presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ and one of the best preachers I’ve ever heard. Rev. Blake is pastor of West Angeles Church of God in Christ in Los Angeles.

An interesting story today from the London Daily Mail.

The God-o-Meter has a very interesting interview with Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren. It sounds like Warren wasn’t impressed with Barack Obama’s answer regarding when human life begins. ["That's above my pay grade," Brother Obama reportedly said. Brother McCain said human life begins at conception.]

 The Obama campaign has come up with a prayer line up that looks, demographically, a lot like America. (List is below.) One of them is evangelical Joel Hunter, a megachurch pastor who has rejected the Christian Right’s agenda — focusing on abortion and gay marriage above all other issues.

The other evangelical, interestingly, is Cameron Strang, publisher of Relevant magazine and the son of Charisma Magazine founder (and Huckabee backer) Stephen Strang. I met the younger Strang at the Religion Newswriters Association convention in 2005, and he’s a bright, personable, impressive young man. [I'm not positive about his age, but I'd guess he's in his late 20s.] Strang’s magazine, Relevant, is one of the most enjoyable religious magazines on the market today. (more…)

The God Blog has a fascinating post about evangelist Rick Warren’s purpose-driven speech to a group of leading rabbis. Apparently, Warren spoke at length but never mentioned the ‘J’ word (as in ‘Jesus’) a single time. Observers in the evangelical and fundamentalist communities are split over whether Warren’s omission was tactful or timid.

Breaking news from the Washington Post: “Left Behind” co-author Tim LaHaye says it’s unlikely Democrat Barack Obama will force you to take the “Mark of the Beast” if he’s elected president.

Church says it doesn’t won’t accept one-tenth of a member’s $6 million Lottery winnings.
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Religion News Service moved a startling story this week. It begins: “Catholics at worship should neither sing nor pronounce the name of God as “Yahweh,” the Vatican has said, citing the authority of both Jewish and Christian practice.
The instruction came in a June 29 letter to Catholic bishops conferences around the world from the Vatican’s top liturgical body, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, by an explicit ‘directive’ of Pope Benedict XVI.
‘In recent years the practice has crept in of pronouncing the God of Israel’s proper name,’ the letter noted, referring to the four-consonant Hebrew ‘Tetragrammaton,’ YHWH.”
If this story by Francis X. Rocca is correct (and it certainly appears to be), it means American Catholics will no longer be able to quote some passages from the New American Bible — or from the Vatican website — during church.
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Christian Leaders Release Pro-Family Obama Ad
By the Matthew 25 Network
To Run During Saddleback Presidential Forum
This Saturday, in their first appearance together, Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain will be attending the Saddleback Civil Forum on National Leadership held at Rick Warren’s megachurch.
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