RDPulpit: Religious Bloggers Campaign to Stop Torture
Religious bloggers push the media to go beyond “soundbite theology” to challenging questions about torture and America.
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Its the Spiritual Economy, Stupid: Why the Gay Marriage Fracas Isn’t About Either
Why would Christian conservatives yoke the future of their movement to an unpopular issue?
Read MoreThe Great Cremation Debate
Cremation is increasingly acceptable to Jews but is it as ecologically friendly as we’re led to believe?
Read MorePrayer vs. Medicine in the Courts
In some states the law protects parents who rely on faith healing even when the refusal of medical care leads to tragedy.
Read MoreTexas Court Rules Against Polygamist Raid
The court found little hard evidence that minors were in physical danger or were victims of abuse. Critical media compare raid to Guantanamo Bay…
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Sacred&Profane: American Martyrdom
America has defined itself through identification of evil enemies and shared grief for heroes who die fighting them…
Read MoreWe’re All Episcopalians Now
Mainline Protestantism’s prophetic voice has been drowned out in the debate over who can sleep with whom and still do God’s work. Yes, it’s a big deal but so is the war in Iraq, public education…
Read MoreHagee and McCain Part Ways
What should be more offensive to a political candidate, a claim that God is fully in charge of history, or a claim that the biblical text, not human thought, is the source of truth? It’s the latter that violates the spirit of the first amendment…
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RDPulpit: Gays Welcomed Fallible Pope
Gays should be grateful to God for creating a humanly fallible Church to allow room for independence and growth…
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Obama Foes Misrepresent Islam with “Apostate” Tactic
A noted scholar of Islamic law explains the apostasy fallacy…
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