Good morning.

1. Selection of a sort.
2. If those stats on age refer to the “brake/accel” issue, the problem is not mechanical.
3. A view of Mr Obama which makes some sense … but see this in that context.
4. Chesterton.
5. Repentance.
6. The rehabilitation of US Grant … is that it? To keep Mr Reagan off the $50 bill?
7. Very sweet.
8. On war.
9. Hmm.
10. Smile, your feel good story for the day.
11. Image, archetype and propaganda … 
12. Girls.
13. And some old advice that remains good.

It really is past time for Glen Beck to apologize to Christians for his equating the church’s work in social justice with Nazism and Communism. He’s not just enraging liberals; he’s become an embarrassment to conservatives. And on this point he’s just wrong in the most offensive way.

Although he wasn’t directing his comments at the Heritage Foundation video series, Beck’s comments were made just after the release by Heritage of the series on social justice with Chuck Colson of BreakPoint, Al Mohler of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Sean Litton of the International Justice Mission, and other evangelical leaders speaking on the meaning and importance of social justice.

Beck’s comments are not an issue of left and right but of false representation of the teachings of Jesus on care for the poor and the suffering, and a broadside against those who live out the Gospel in our society.

The criticism of Beck is strong and diverse, from many parts of the religious spectrum:

Jim Wallis, Sojourners

James Martin, S.J., Catholic priest

Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Joe Carter, evangelical editor, First Things

The Rev. Canon Peg Chemberlin, president of the National Council of Churches of Christ USA

David Gushee, evangelical, professor of Christian ethics, Mercer University

Marty Duren, Southern Baptist pastor

It’s time for Beck to make amends, or for Fox News to censure him or drop his show.