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RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy

By Tom Davis

…brity and the moniker “America’s Pastor,” are largely the product of a best-selling self-help devotional, The Purpose Driven Life. Stunning skeptical publishers, the book has sold 25 million copies and is, according to Publisher’s Weekly, the best selling hardback in American history. Revenue from the book has enabled Warren to stop drawing a salary and to refund the 25 years of salary he’d already drawn. Furthermore, the huge sums that continue t…

New Poll: Evangelicals Backing Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…up even higher totals. In some ways, you could see 2016 as the Evangelicals-vs.-Nones election. The two groups will approach rough parity as Sanders voters get behind Clinton, however grudgingly. Because the Nones are somewhat more evenly distributed across the nation than evangelicals, a stalemate favors Clinton. It does Trump no good to ring up a super-majority in Mississippi when Clinton can flip North Carolina, for example. My colleague Neil J…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…lk2Action’s Bruce Wilson with another video exposé. Wilson and Ruth, his co-researcher and co-documentarian, have done an extraordinary job trying to bring information about the realities of Sarah Palin’s religious relationships to the spotlight. And while the mainstream media hasn’t picked up on the Palin videos—as they did with Pastor John Hagee’s ‘Hitler was sent by God’ video that went viral and mainstream—Wilson and company are on the job. In…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…inant models of analysis: number crunching and psychology. Greenspan was a number cruncher, says Brooks, and unfortunately, human psychology caught up with him. Greenspan saw real estate values continuing to soar with no end in sight and allowed himself to be persuaded that they would never stop rising, and certainly would never fall. So he never had to think about petty psychological realities, like a crisis of confidence, never mind an actual pa…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…r, have the American people learned more than enough about some of the less-than-ethical ways she goes about her business? Everyone will have an opinion and most of those opinions will be flawed. After all, it is nearly impossible to predict what will happen in the coming year, let alone in 2012. Christianity Today’s Sarah Pulliam recently interviewed Ross Douthat, a senior editor at The Atlantic and the co-author of “Grand New Party: How Republic…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…nton said we need to “inject faith into policy” (CNN/Sojourners town hall 6-26-07). Barack Obama asked a congregation to help him “become an instrument of God” and join him in creating “a Kingdom right here on Earth” (10-17-07). Mike Huckabee tells a crowd: “What we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards” (1-14-08). 6.) TOP TEN COMPARISONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND DENTISTRY: Between…

The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…at many of the difficult feelings I was experiencing in relation to my body-in-pain reminded me of the negativity I’d felt toward my body as a teenager, when I had an eating disorder. Of course, the situations were entirely different. My desire to control the arthritic pain of my middle-aged body had nothing to do with my adolescent yearning to be skinny. Yet the feeling of wanting to conquer, escape, or transcend my body was very familiar. This f…

Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

…aching. White Protestants (my peeps) have too often tended to cling to a by-your-bootstraps ethic of individual achievement, joined to a suspicion that there is something slightly sinister and foreign about union leaders and about the union concept of class solidarity. I grew up ten miles from the Kohler Company’s sprawling furnaces and factories in eastern Wisconsin during the seemingly endless and ultimately victorious struggle by the UAW to uni…

The Incredible Shrinking Catholic Church

By Paul Gorrell

…tning rod when it comes to the Church’s relations with Jews. While Catholic-Jewish relations had grown closer during the reign of Pope John Paul II, Benedict’s background as an ex-Hitler youth has created some suspicions about his true beliefs when it comes to the dignity of the Jewish religion. With this new development, the Rabbinate of Israel has severed ties with the Vatican and expressed concern about future relations with a Benedict-led Cath…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…ystem—a bicyclist ringing a bell—that helped locals identify and expel door-to-door evangelists. But Aarón had military connections in local government, and roots in the region. Elisa had been born in the city. After two decades of civil war and social reform, rural migrants had swelled Guadalajara’s working classes. Aarón soon built a following among poor Guadalajarans, in part by offering social services. In 1954, he managed to secure a piece of…