Breck D's Profile

We need new evangelicalism that learns from the past and listens more carefully to what God says about being His people in the midst of a powerful, idolatrous culture.

must make a priority of biblical authority, responsible leadership, and a reemergence of orthodoxy

Evangelicalism doesn't need a bailout. Much of it needs a funeral.

Evangelicalism has used its educational system primarily to staff its own needs and talk to itself.

If they can, the model would have a huge impact on the Arab world.

If Iraqis fail, it’s religious strife, economic decline and authoritarianism as far as the eye can see — the witch’s brew that spawns terrorists.

To me, it was about getting bin Laden and depriving Al Qaeda of a sanctuary — period. I never thought we could make Afghanistan into Norway — and even if we did, it would not resonate beyond its borders the way Iraq might.

It is just too expensive, when balanced against our needs for nation-building in America, so that we will have the strength to play our broader global role.

To save an ecosystem of nature, you need an ecosystem of markets and governance.

Right now people protecting the rainforest are paid a pittance — compared with those who strip it

Richard Heene is the inevitable product of this reigning culture, where “news,” “reality” television and reality itself are hopelessly scrambled and the warp-speed imperatives of cable-Internet competition allow no time for fact checking.

creating a climate that mistakes entertainment for news

There’s also some poignancy in his determination to grab what he and many others see as among the last accessible scraps of the American dream.

If Heene’s balloon was empty, so were the toxic financial instruments, inflated by the thin air of unsupported debt, that cratered the economy he inhabits. The press hyped both scams, and the public eagerly bought both. But between the bogus balloon and the banks’ bubble, there’s no contest as to which did the most damage to the country. The ultimate joke is that Heene, unlike the reckless gamblers at the top of Citigroup and A.I.G., may be the one with a serious shot at ending up behind bars.