Reclaiming America for Humans

Your blogstress notes with great pleasure the citation of her take-down of the Reclaiming America for Christ conference by the estimable Bill Berkowitz on Talk to Action. Beyond quoting your cybertrix, Berkowitz has an interesting piece on the sudden closures of several political "ministries" of Rev. D. James Kennedy, who is apparently so incompacitated by a heart attack he suffered last December that he has not been heard from publicly since.

When the slate of conservative dream-teamers joined some 1,300 attendees at this year's Reclaiming America for Christ conference in early March, few in the crowd could have predicted that within two months the gathering's high-powered sponsoring organization would shut its doors. In late April, that's exactly what D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries did when they announced they were closing the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ.

Speculation on the reasons for the closures initially focused on the failing health of Kennedy, the founder of the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida-based Coral Ridge Ministries (CRM). Since suffering a major heart attack in late December, Kennedy has not been heard from publicly.
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