Religion Dispatches
Who is really pointing the dagger to the heart of immigration reform, the senator who seeks to include permanent partners (including gays) or the Bishops and evangelicals who oppose it?
Read MoreWas Obama’s interpretation of the proper relationship of faith to the Constitution really a “fruitcake” position as Dr. James Dobson called it?
Read MoreFirst you ordain women, then you consecrate them as bishops, and—look!—homosexual clergy want to come out of the closet: RD takes a calm look at the latest quarrel between the long-divorced Anglican Church and the Vatican…
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Do bishops have too much time on their hands?
Read MoreMcCain’s new ad mocking Obama’s charismatic campaign of hope and the belief that we can do better is being criticized as ‘blasphemous’ and offensive to liberal Christians…
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A meditation by flashlight on the nature of evil, whether natural or moral, and the power of human agency to do good in the world…
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McCain and Obama each had one problematic pastor. Palin has four…
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Nancy Pelosi was denounced by Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals for deviating from their line on “pelvic issues,” a common criticism from the Church hierarchy. Bishops and cardinals may be pastors, administrators, and lobbyists, but they’re no theologians…
Read MoreA colleague suggests, in response to Andre Wills’ recent RD article, that being evangelical is no more antithetical to the prophetic strand of the black church than R&B is to gospel music…
Read MoreDoes Obama’s coded evangelical language signal a shift from black prophetic politics to the evangelical politics of personal salvation?
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