It's A Sad Day...

Speaker Pelosi's daughter documents Christian right
Reuters - Jan. 21, 2007 (Click on the link above to read the full article)

Alexandra Pelosi, a former TV news producer who documented Bush's 2000 presidential campaign in her award-winning "Journeys with George," said she traveled through 16 states and conducted some 800 interviews to profile evangelicals who believe the Holy Bible is the word of God and should be strictly followed.

"If you live in Los Angeles or New York, you don't realize there's this whole group out there rejecting your culture," she said. "All I was trying to do was introduce blue staters to all the people who live in between New York and L.A.," she said.

In "Friends of God," audiences are taken on a road trip across the southern, midwestern and western United States, meeting parishioners in churches, kids at Christian concerts, a comedian for Jesus, a man who builds Holy crosses, and even audiences at a Christian professional wrestling match.

What emerges is an outsider's look at people who deeply believe abortion is wrong, gay marriage is bad and teaching evolution in public schools goes against the word of God.

Pelosi is a writer, director, camera operator and producer, which was her style on "Journeys with George" and her 2004 "Diary of a Political Tourist," which looked at that year's Democratic presidential candidates.

In 2004, of course, Bush was re-elected, again with overwhelming support of the evangelical movement.

"You can say what you want about the evangelicals, but in the end you have to respect these people because they are so (politically) organized and so mobilized," she said. "I did come away with a profound respect for that."

"Friends of God" debuts on HBO on January 25.

Beloved,

It's a sad day when the American evangelical church is known more for its faith in President Bush instead of the God who revealed Himself to Moses in the burning bush. It is a sad day when the church is known more for its political organization instead of its bold proclamation of the Holy Word of God. It is a sad day indeed when the church is engaged in wrestling matches instead of wrestling "against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."

Let us pray that God's all-consuming holiness would ignite in us an ever burning zeal for our beloved Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and His blood bought church!

In Christ,

Des

Put Not Your Trust in Princes

146:1 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!

2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

3 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

4 When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever;

7 who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets the prisoners free;

8 the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous.

9 The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

10 The Lord will reign forever,your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 146 ~ The Holy Bible English Standard Version