Orrin Hatch: Health Care Dollars for Prayer Cures, But Not Abortion
The Senate bill could require insurers to cover Christian Science prayer treatments but not abortion?
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Clinton on “A Syndicate of Terror”
Could we just look in the mirror, please?
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Escalating Afghanistan: What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?
Don’t the clergy have a duty to challenge the march of folly in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
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Slouching Towards Lake Wobegon; Searching for Meaning in the Google Cloud
Has the shift from sociability to social-networking left Garrison Keillor clinging to his Wobegone Lutherans of yesteryear? What of the glaring problems of those “simpler times?”
Read MoreA Test of the Prophetic Imagination: Seeing a “Good Liberal” in All His Corrupt Glory
Barney Frank drops the ball on consumer protection.
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A Great Gulf Fixed: Implications of the Vanishing Religious Middle
Results of a new poll show that in matters of religion the right and left are in different universes. Why, then, are progressives so insistent on finding common ground?
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A Whiter Shade of Faith: Saturday’s Tax Protests and the Religion of Whiteness
Dick Armey mobilized his protest troops at the Capitol this weekend, and prompted this meditation from our columnist on the dangerous nostalgia for white dominance—then and now—that this anti-Obama movement calls forth.
Read MoreThe Endgame on Health Reform: Religious Progressives Need to Keep Critical Perspective
Is Universal Coverage the only moral touchstone in health care reform? Religious progressives need to think again.
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‘Soul Murder’ in the American Workplace
As the media yawns at the latest unemployment numbers, our columnist seeks religious leadership on the taboo subject of our dysfunctional relationship to work. For even if the economy recovers and “full employment” returns, we will still be encountering a workplace that remains a site of utter terror in some instances and a site of routine abuse and low-grade anxiety in others.
Read MoreThat Mercenary Feeling: What the Apparently Unlimited Use of “Contractors” Says About American Empire in Afghanistan and Iraq
Nothing like dropping in a lot of trigger-happy hired guns to win hearts and minds, right?
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