UPDATED: Warren is… Heterogeneous on Gay Marriage; In Hot Water for Equivocation
Last week on Larry King, “America’s Pastor” downplayed his opposition to gay marriage. That was not always the case.
Read MoreLast week on Larry King, “America’s Pastor” downplayed his opposition to gay marriage. That was not always the case.
Read MorePardon me, Nick, but the course you are recommending—and the White House policy you are explicitly endorsing—happens to represent a complete breach of public trust.
Read MoreHas Iowa adhered to its long history of justice or is preventing two men from marrying each other no different than prohibiting a man from marrying his house plant.
Read MoreIs there a connection between fewer identifying as “Christian” and “junk religion”? If the religious right is losing power why are Democrats so intent on “reaching out” to them?
Read MoreThe 10 remaining picks did little to rectify the anti-reform, anti-woman, anti-gay tilt of Obama’s Faith-Based Advisory Council. Not to mention the conspicuous absence of a single academic theologian.
Read MoreA new report shows that when Americans are assured that clergy aren’t required to perform same-sex marriages an interesting thing happens.
Read MoreOn Friday White House officials launched a campaign to appease those on all sides of the abortion issue. Do they realize it’s nearly as thorny as Israel/Palestine?
Read MoreTheologian Susan Thistlethwaite suggested in Newsweek that liberals should respect progressive efforts to connect with evangelicals. Frances Kissling responds that the respect should begin with a sitdown between liberals and progressives.
Read MoreIs a faux ‘religious left’ being manufactured as an official counterweight to the religious right in the media? Religion Dispatches talks with veteran religious right-watcher Frederick Clarkson about a new book of essays on revivifying a religious left.
Read MoreNot only is the balance on Obama’s Faith-Based Council tipped toward conservatives, it seems that for every gay rights advocate there must be a homophobe.
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