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Oral Roberts died this week and the obituaries have been abuzz with analyses of his life and legacy. The USA Today headline summed up his contributions this way: "Oral Roberts brought health-and-wealth Gospel mainstream." The Los Angeles Times gave a similar snapshot of the man: "Oral Roberts dies at 91; televangelist was pioneering preacher of the 'prosperity gospel'" But Christianity Today's lead blogger, Ted Olsen, disagreed. He responded with a post titled "Why the Oral Roberts Obituaries Are Wrong." The long subtitle at the head of Olsen's post explained: "The 'faith-healer' (who hated the term) may have done much to...

I am a physical scientist with a PhD from Brown University. My thesis was in quantum mechanical scattering theory. I spent a full career developing strategic weapons before being ordained an Anglican priest. I served several parishes in California and Colorado before moving to the Chesapeake shore. Last year, while serving as a Senior Fellow in the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, I had the privilege of moderating a theological symposium entitled God, Energy, and our Kinship with Nature, which was sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

BOWL (MATCHUP) Mark Schlabach Bruce Feldman Citi BCS National Championship Game (BCS No. 1 vs. BCS No. 2) Alabama vs. Texas Florida vs. Texas Tostitos Fiesta (BCS vs. BCS) Iowa vs. TCU USC vs. Boise State Allstate Sugar (BCS vs. BCS) Florida vs. Boise State Alabama vs. Cincinnati FedEx Orange (BCS vs. BCS) Georgia Tech vs. Cincinnati Georgia Tech vs. TCU Rose Bowl presented by Citi (BCS vs. BCS) Oregon vs. Ohio State Oregon vs. Ohio State

ESPN just reports that Michael Vick signed 2 year contract with PHiladelphia Eagles.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says President Obama's plan to overhaul health care is evil. The former Republican vice presidential candidate posted her thoughts Friday on Facebook. Palin says in the America she knows, people won't have to "stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care." She says such a system is "downright evil." An e-mail sent to Palin's spokeswoman confirming authorship was not immediately returned. Palin resigned as Alaska governor July 26. She promised to speak...

The is a 60 minute video of Conde Rice speaking at the Reagan Foundation this last tuesday night.

J.C. Watts former Sooners Quarterback & Congressman, will be bringing a message...entitled "Seven Characteristics of A Church".

Ryan Means was so gung-ho about the military, he ripped out a recruitment card from a magazine, filled it out and mailed it in. A few days later, two Marine Corps officers knocked on his parent’s door in Atlanta, ready to enlist their son. His mother, Mary Jo, sent the officers away. After all, her son was only 9. Young Means revered the armed services. As a kid growing up in Atlanta, he’d frequently don fatigues. At Halloween, he packed heat as G.I. Joe. And every day, he and younger brother Michael would dig foxholes in the back yard, filling...

So the ESPN everywoman and patron saint of blog traffic got her bell rung by an errant foul ball at last night's Mets-Dodgers game. She's fine, just bruised up, and ESPN says she'll resume her duties right away. Our (and by "our," I feel totally comfortable saying I'm speaking for college football fans everywhere of all persuasions) very best wishes for an SEC-speed recovery and better timing on live television.

As you know Manny Ramirez was suspended for 50 games for using a female fertility drug. Tonight he hit his first Home Run since coming back. However, the was an awkward moment in the Dodger dugout after the HR. Instead of giving him a high-five they gave him a ____________.

We did our RE (Ridiculously Early) Top 25 back in January, just hours after Florida had won the BCS national championship. Now we’re done with spring practice and June will be here before we know it. So let’s do our Spring Top 25, which should give us enough to argue about between now and two-a-days in August. Last season’s record and the previously rank in our RE Top 25 are in parentheses. So who did I leave out that belongs on this list? Have a good weekend. See you Monday. 1—Florida (13-1, 1): Tim Tebow is back. The entire defense...

The other day I was watching "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, and Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, came on from Washington to talk about health care. A reporter on the set, Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times, asked a few clear and direct questions: What is President Obama's health care plan, how would it work, what would it look like? I leaned forward. Finally I will understand. Ms. Sebelius began to answer in that dead and deadening governmental language that does not reveal or clarify but instead wraps legitimate queries in clouds of words and...

This is an audio of the last part of the 1972 ALCS between the A's and Tigers.

Jack Kemp was always the consummate quarterback. Long after he stopped wearing a helmet and cleats, long after his uniform became a suit and tie, long after his workplace switched from a field and a huddle to a desk and a podium, he remained a leader. You felt compelled to listen to him, to follow him, to believe he was the man with the plan. It had nothing at all to do with what he espoused in a political career that made him a larger national figure than he ever was as a professional football player. And we're talking about...

PHILADELPHIA – John Sotos has a theory about why Abraham Lincoln was so tall, why he appeared to have lumps on his lips and even why he had gastrointestinal problems. The 16th president, he contends, had a rare genetic disorder — one that would likely have left him dead of cancer within a year had he not been assassinated. And his bid to prove his theory has posed an ethical and scientific dilemma for a small Philadelphia museum in the year that marks the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth.

Christopher Buckley, son of William, takes a non-too-gentle look at Newt Gingrich’s pending change of religion in the Daily Beast: Brace yourselves for a tsunami of punditry this weekend, when the much-married Newt Gingrich is received into the Catholic Church. This would ordinarily be a private occasion, but Newt Gingrich is not ordinary. He is (I hedge) probably the most interesting putative candidate person on the Right at this point. Google “Gingrich” and “2012” your hard drive will melt under a trillion hits. So attention to this event must and will be paid. Buckley goes into some unkind detail about...

Legal bills have mounted fighting complaints that she called partisan, false and frivolous, starting with "the politically motivated Troopergate probe," Palin said in a written response to questions. "I must defend against these baseless ethics accusations out of my own pocket as the use of public monies to do so could itself violate state law," Palin wrote. "On August 29, it seems the political landscape changed in Alaska. Now, it seems in order to do this job as Governor, with the political blood sport some are playing today, only the independently wealthy or those willing to spend their income on...

COULTER ON SUNDAY GERALDO -- TONIGHT! - FNC, 10pm, 3/15/09

Reporting from Washington -- The Supreme Court opinion that drew the most praise last week from a proudly "progressive" constitutional law group was written by perhaps the court's staunchest conservative, Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas would have gone further than the court's liberals in a decision that allowed injured patients to sue drug makers. In a 24-page concurrence, he said the court should have declared that judges have no authority to void state consumer-protection laws based on "agency musings" from Washington.

I finally found a video of Sarah's appearance on this show from New Years Eve.