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Evangelicals and Immigration Reform, Again

…renzy in Uganda that has led to the kill-the-gay bill there. This is not a new effort by evangelicals to press for immigration reform. Two years ago, a group calling itself Conservatives for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which included the NHCLC, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, pressed for immigration reform, but without the Uniting American Families Act, a provision that would permit the

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Dems’ New Faith Outreach Director “Pro-Life” and Against Marriage Equality (Updated)

…Street Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., also serves on the board of the National Association of Evangelicals and its humanitarian arm, World Relief, and on the board of the Democratic-leaning Faith in Public Life. Last June, during Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition (FFC) conference held in Washington last June, Harkins was one of a group of faith leaders who participated in a press conference billed as “pushback” on the religious right,…

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Rising to Heaven in a Secular Rapture: Trump’s Golden Promises

…oots movement, of people getting out of their enclaves and agreeing to the new rules of reversing the respect deficit. Then, at the level of local leadership and then further on up, let’s see if we can get candidates who are respectful of our agreements and differences. We are one country. The kinds of issues I found crossover on were things like getting money out of politics, protecting the environment, reducing prison populations, and others. Th…

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“Lyin’ Ted’s” Non-Endorsement: When Coherence Becomes a Vice

…rough defense of conservatism, what Benjamin Wallace-Wells writing for The New Yorker rightly called “the most exact statement of the prevailing conservative ethos offered yet in this election.” Cruz also spoke for unity–the buzzword of the evening. But Cruz envisioned unity around a set of conservative ideals, rather than behind a demagogic figure as the other evening’s speakers had demanded. “We will unite the country by standing together for sh…

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What is Interfaith Cooperation For?

…al universe as Hulsether’s. So this is not primarily about a difference in politics. Instead, this is about another very important fact: Hulsether and I share a country and a world with people who have very different views on a whole range of fundamental issues. Frequently, those views are shaped by faith commitments. The central problem interfaith work seeks to solve is this: how are all of us, with our deep differences, to share a nation and a w…

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If By “American” and “Religious” You Mean “Republican” and “Conservative Christian,” Then Yes…

…s indicate “a reversal of a decline in support for church intervention” in politics. Connelly, the “director of faith engagement for the Republican National Committee,” attributes this quote to “an analysis” of the study, which leaves the reader to assume that it came from the study’s authors themselves, and not from the Wall St. Journal, as seems to be the case. While the WSJ analysis does quote a Pew researcher making that point, I can’t help wo…

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International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

…He implied the state Supreme Court judges are being bribed by agents of a new world order: Russia, China and the Arab world have now escaped from their hands. They don’t dominate them, but in Western countries they want to establish a single government and they want to use it to destroy the family, the Catholic Church, which are in their way, as well as the true national governments. And one of the means for destroying the family is to pervert th…

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The Problem with Pew’s Science & Religion Poll

…e topic, emphasizing the hot button issue of science and religion in their headlines. The headlines emphasized either conflict (“Most Americans Think Science, Religion Conflict”), or reconciliation (“Reconciling faith and science: Pew study”; “Conflicts between faith, science may be overhyped, survey results show”). Whatever the hook, these articles then offer straightforward summaries of Pew’s general findings. The Counterintuitive: A more focuse…

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The Eddie Long Scandal: It is About Anti-Homosexuality

…on about anti-homosexuality, out front, bold and brazenly waxed across the news headlines accompanied by a picture of one of the most prominent African American clergy in the nation. Let’s not go into denial (innocent or intentional) on this matter: This is an issue about anti-homosexual rhetoric! It must be spotlighted with as much vigor as other matters surrounding this case such as ethical boundaries (including the utilization of power and auth…

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LDS Church, US Government Swap Positions on Polygamy

…on the LDS psyche—it only exposes it. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young did cruel, cruel things to their followers and their wives as they taught and practiced the doctrine of polygamy. My ancestors, admittedly clannish, self-righteous people, paid for their faults by being repeatedly evicted from their homes and being threatened with extermination on order of the governor in Missouri. The Mormon migration to Utah involved tremendous suffering, as e…

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