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  • “Everybody Loves a Holy War” – Remembering Mark Heard

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    This month marks the twentieth anniversary of Mark Heard's death. Christianity Today has a memorial to him at their site. Victims of the Age, from 1982, was one of my favorite albums. For thirty years, his song from that album, Everybody Loves a Holy War, continues to ring in my ears with every political campaign…

  • Obama, Warren, and “Everybody Loves a Holy War”

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    Well, you've undoubtedly heard that Obama has selected Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. This decision has prompted psychotic zealotry from both ends of the political spectrum. The left is indignant that Obama would select a bigoted anti-choice homophobe like Warren, and the right is outraged at Warren for praying for a…

  • Everybody Loves a Holy War

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    Scot McKnight has begun a series on Zealotry that should be very interesting. Reading his post today reminded me of one of my favorite songs recorded by Mark Heard more than two decades ago. I posted it here late last year, but I thought I would post it again since there are many new readers.…

  • Everybody Loves a Holy War

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    Three things happened to me yesterday. First, I was perusing Rodger Seller’s blog and came across his post Someone Help Me Get This.  Rodger was writing about the blogger’s legalistic dismissal of a piece written by Gordon McDonald in Leadership Magazine. (Rodger has a link to McDonald’s excellent article.) Second, I read an article on…