What does all the quiet good work of Mainline Liberals really come to in a public square dominated by the right?
A New Year’s Health Care Sobriety Test for Religious Progressives: It’s Not Obama
Responsible religious leaders need to stay sober and stop cheerleading for the Democrats and for the Obama White House just because they’re not total Visigoths.
The Conservative Bible Project: Looking for Conservative Diamonds in a Liberal Dung-Hill
Andy Schlafly, son of Phyllis, wants to claim the Christian scriptures for conservatism. Why rewrite the Bible? Well, as everyone knows, Jesus is a pretty liberal dude. And everyone knows that “young girl” in Greek was really a euphemism for “bimbo.”
Barney Frank drops the ball on consumer protection.
It’s important for journalists to be able to parse the distinctions among those who call themselves Christian, tedious as it may be.
Conservatives are fond of using scripture to support their arguments, and they are great at tapping the emotional heart of a story. Liberals, not so much.
Health Care Post-Mortem: Left is Right, Right is Left and Public is Loser
So long as the health care battle is focused on the model of market competition—the very notion that health care is best conceived as a for-profit industry—the whole debate is a non-starter. If a meaningful health care reform is to pass, Democrats and liberals will have to return to their social justice roots.
American Brokenness: A Lament
Conservatives in this country are undergoing an existential crisis, but this is not the time for liberals to sit by smugly and watch.
Will the Real Progressive Christians Please Stand Up?
A walk through recent Christian history—from the rise of evangelicalism, through neo-Orthodoxy, and on to Liberation theology—reveals the roots of the current debate among those who identify as progressives.
Survey Says: Mainline Clergy Lean Liberal
Conservative clergy and pundits have worked overtime to create the impression that there’s only one “Christian” position on the issues. A new survey proves otherwise.
Jesus Never Built a Bridge with a Pharisee: On Compromise with Conservatives
As the disagreement heats up between "religious progressives" and the "religious left" on the nature of compromise with centrists and conservatives, Candace Chellew-Hodge argues that you can respect your opponent and still refuse to compromise.
What Liberals Want: A Response to Susan Thistlethwaite
Theologian Susan Thistlethwaite suggested in Newsweek that liberals should respect progressive efforts to connect with evangelicals. Frances Kissling responds that the respect should begin with a sitdown between liberals and progressives.
Religion Poll Proves that Liberals Are Not Conservatives
A new Barna poll plays off of the tarnished "liberal" label and seems to push the idea that conservative religion is the real religion.
How did a US Senator end up signing a letter condemning some of his Senate colleagues as bad Catholics?
RDBook: Christian Culture Clash
Why are conservative churches thriving in the “spiritual wasteland” of the Pacific Northwest, while liberal churches struggle? Author James Wellman explains what's going on in the region, and how this plays out across the United States.
The brand new branch of the Living Liberally tree seeks to build a grassroots religious left. Can local, leaderless cells build any coherent momentum?