Religion Dispatches
The world of Sarah Palin can be divided neatly into good and bad. The latter category includes Hollywood, John Kerry, Michael Moore, “left-wing professors and journalists,” Nancy Pelosi, the Ninth Circuit Court, liberals, MSNBC, the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Times, Barack Obama, health care, and “all the lawyers and academics and schooled-up ‘experts’ in D.C.”
Read MoreA poll showed 7 out of 10 New Yorkers opposing Park51 but this intolerance doesn’t square with the city’s history.
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The notorious Alliance Defense Fund, which seeks to abrogate the establishment clause of the First Amendment, has recruited an evangelical minister to endorse a candidate for governor from the pulpit in hopes of taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court. Such advocacy, of course, violates the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization from making political endorsements.
Read MoreOn the Kennedy paradigm, the abortion myth, Johnson’s moral compass, blithe affirmations of faith, and Billy Graham’s hypocrisy…
Read MoreReformed Theological Seminary forces out professor who suggested evolution is not incompatible with evangelicalism. A sign of fundamentalist retrenchment?
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In the midst of new developments in the Catholic sex abuse scandal and in light of last year’s surprise invitation from the Pope to conservative Episcopalians, a new invitation is extended to disheartened Catholics.
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Well-known for his dogged “pursuit of knowledge” when it came to Bill Ciinton’s sex life, Kenneth Starr will now be at the helm of the the largest Baptist university in the world.
Read MoreObama’s proposal is too timid: How about asking religious groups to really step up?
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Wherein the author, a friend of the Rev. Brad Braxton and an Episcopal priest, recalls his own harrowing year in the pulpit and the toll it can take on self and family.
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What went through the mind of this haunted man with the “thousand-yard stare” in his later years as he shuffled back and forth to work just “a hand grenade’s throw” from the Vietnam War Memorial?
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