Dear President Bush
As you approach the end of your time in the White House, I want to make sure I say “Thank you.” Thank you for transforming my faith and my politics.
Read MoreAs you approach the end of your time in the White House, I want to make sure I say “Thank you.” Thank you for transforming my faith and my politics.
Read MoreRolling with the atheists in the UK; rich men, camels, and needle’s eyes; Jews, Christians, and Gaza; the Obamas on Sunday mornings…all this and more on the religion writer’s beat as the year begins.
Read MoreRD News Round-Up—December 2, 2008. Rick Warren and Reader’s Digest’s multimedia platform; Faith-based orgs and Katrina; Churches for sale; Breakaway Episcopalians; and Bob Jones U. apologizes for racism; and Ted Haggard returns.
Read MoreFrom “God Hates Fags” to Desmond Tutu’s calls for compassion, religion has been deeply intertwined with the struggle for AIDS justice. Fully two decades after activists first challenged church authority on HIV/AIDS religion’s report card is mixed.
Read MoreSince the 2004 defeat of John Kerry, a handful of religious Inside-the-Beltway Democrats—called the religious left by some—have seen their influence rise dramatically. But how progressive is their “broader agenda?” And what of religious left leaders who include reproductive justice and LGBT civil rights on their list?
Read MoreAn interview with Neil Giuliano, president of GLAAD, in the wake of a new poll that shows much wider concern for LGBT rights than might be expected, even among conservative Christians.
Read MoreThe proper role of government is to punish evildoers, Pastor Rick Warren tells Sean Hannity. If the Rev’s read is to be believed, the United States is in deep trouble.
Read MoreRD News Round-Up—December 8, 2008: Proposition 8—The Rematch; California Supreme Court Justice in Religious Right’s Crosshairs; American Family Association’s 40th Birthday; and “The Last Languages Campaign,” Breakaway Episcopalians, and “Counterfeit Pro-Lifer[s].”
Read MoreAs we help US culture emerge from its anti-scientific faith moment, we need to stress a rational morality.
Read MoreWhat we are witnessing in Iran is a coup against elements of the establishment deemed insufficiently committed to a radical reading of Islam. Unable to handle the messy outcome of democracy is the regime in serious trouble?
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