Cut-Off Date for Comments on “Conscience Clause”
Breaking with the American Medical Association’s longstanding definition of pregnancy, Bush’s HHS is spreading ideology, not science…
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Prosperity Preachers: Where Are They Now?
As the economy collapses where are the snake-oil salesmen promising untold wealth to the most fervent believers? Right where they’ve always been, sadly…
Read MoreValues Voter Summit Hits Home
From “Ex Gay Is Ok” buttons to denigrating Senators Pelosi, Clinton and Boxer, who are not like the “American women that we know”; a personal reflection on the Values Voters Summit…
Read MoreSpinning the Faith Forum
Liberal media claims that Obama was “sandbagged” at Saddleback, but is this just a knee-jerk reaction to evangelical influence in politics?
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Gay Marriage: Religious Right Cranks Up the Fear
California’s Proposition 8 would overturn the state’s Supreme Court decision to allow same-sex marriage — right wing religious groups are girding for the battle they are calling “the Armageddon of the culture war.”…
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RD10Q: MLK and the Rhetoric of Freedom
A social movement comes into being when a group of people come to see themselves as sharing a common identity, a common story, and a common destination. How did Dr. King’s rhetoric inform the consciousness of the civil rights era?
Read MoreThe Idiot Play
The Bush administration stalls to drag the Iraq war on through to the next presidency, and betrays us again…
Read MoreSwiftboating Obama: The Brown Blob of Black Radicalism
Obama supporters should “chill out” in the face of this swiftboating via the conflation of Obama and Wright into an undifferentiated brown blob of black radicalism broadcast together in a twenty-four hour news cycle.
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This is Not a Religion Column: The Religious Vote of the Future, with a Pickle
An Election ’08 Manifesto for Messiness: A tart plea for nuanced religion coverage…
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