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Tea Party “Constitutionalism” on Abortion

By Julie Ingersoll

…the “Founders” and spelled out in the Constitution, could create a more supportive climate in the legislature when Van Zant brings the bill up again. Democrat Alex Sink is pro-choice and would clearly veto such a bill. The Tea-Party-supported view that the federal government is limited to the very specific actions anticipated by the “Founders” and spelled out in the Constitution, could create a more supportive climate in the legislature when Van Z…

Gingrich’s Apocalyptic Fantasies, Again

By Sarah Posner

…the United States engage in pre-emptive military strikes against Iran and North Korea, many nuclear experts dismiss the threat. America’s current missile defense system would thwart such an attack, these experts say, and the nations in question are at the kindergarten stage of developing nuclear arms.” It’s not just hawkish audiences Gingrich is aiming for, though; he knows there’s a slice of his religious audience that reacts to hearing from a s…

Christianity Today counsels “patience” on Uganda’s anti-gay law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…mma, but several points are worth reflection. First, when American media reported on the proposed legislation, they assumed an inordinate amount of American influence. Media outlets tried to “expose” the power of American evangelicals who had spoken about gay issues in Uganda. Such assumptions were racist, said Scott Lively, one of the speakers. If anything, Ugandan legislators did not follow his advice: He had urged them to favor rehabilitation r…

Right Wing Morality is Costing the Church of England Dearly

By Linda Woodhead

…r of women’s ordination, and last year the same proportion was found to support women bishops. Whatever their personal views, church leaders have stalled on the ordination of women because of their deference to two small but vocal minority parties within the CofE: Anglo-Catholics at one end of the ecclesiological spectrum, and the conservative evangelicals at the other. Together they represent less than 15% of Anglicans. Anglo-Catholics opposed wo…

Is ISIS A Sign of the End Times? It May Only Matter That They Believe So

By Haroon Moghul

…crises can be understood as a kind of civil war, not of the directional, ‘North’ versus ‘South’ variety, but based on alliances. Countries fight against one another even as they fight their own populations. The conflicts are multi-sided, confusing, even overwhelming, and all the more difficult to untangle because they are, to a great degree, about competing interpretations over the same set of texts. Nor is this exclusive to the region. Many Musl…

Romney and the End-Times

By Sarah Posner

…ions are very, very similar. And it’s that common basis that we have to support and find ability to draw people to rather than to point out the differences between our faiths. The differences are less pronounced than the common base that can lead to the peace and the acceptability and the brother and sisterhood of humankind. Stephanopoulos: But your church does teach that Jesus will reign on Earth for the millennium, right? Romney: Yes. Mickelson…

RDPulpit: Rahm Emanuel No Reason for Celebration

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…n and women when we were fighting segregation in the South and then in the North, some of us beaten, others jailed, some even killed. For the first time in three decades we could sing “Imagine” and “The Times They Are A-Changin’” without feeling that we were holding onto utopian fantasies that had been buried by the cynical realists who have shaped public discourse for the past 40 years. How exciting to believe again in the possibility of America…

Why SBC’s Russell Moore Wants Conservative Evangelicals to Be Nicer

By Christine Wicker

…bitter controversy over whether a Muslim cemetery could open in the little North Texas town, the town’s two Baptist pastors were on opposite sides. Barber, who generally subscribes to Moore’s new thinking, supported the Muslims, seeing it as a freedom of religion matter, while the pastor across town vehemently opposed the cemetery. St. Augustine at Gay Pride? Moore is asking evangelicals to be nicer to people they disagree with, keeping in mind th…

Keeping Property, Losing People

By Jonathan L. Walton

…erly broke away from the general body to form their own separate church in North America. It would seem, however, that such a decision hardly translates into a victory for denominational heads. Sure presbyteries, diocese and general governing bodies will likely get to retain church property when individual congregations split. (And often, as is the case with St. James in Newport Beach, we are talking prime real estate in the heart of town.) But th…

Does Barack need the Black Church?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…racial authenticity. While many political pundits have tribalized black support for Obama along racial lines, it must be noted that in October of 2007 only 33 percent of African Americans planned to support his candidacy. As African Americans have grown more familiar with him as a candidate, as well as with his political positions, many have begun to switch their votes. Furthermore, Senator Obama’s early victory in Iowa and strong performances in…