New Poll Finds “Growing Appetite” for Mixing Religion and Politics
A new poll out today from the Pew Research Center finds an increasing number of…
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Sarah Posner, author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, covers politics and religion. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The American Prospect, The Nation, Salon, and other publications.
West Virginia Mayor Enlists Churches To Pray Away Drugs and Crime
Huntington, West Virginia Mayor Steve Williams thinks he has a solution to the scourge of…
Read MoreA Former Christian Coalition Activist Tells All
Last month, The American Prospect published my profile of Elaine White, a former missionary and…
Read MoreIs Liberal Zionism Dead?
That’s a question that has been discussed quite a bit lately, as liberal Zionists raise…
Read MoreFear Not, The IRS Isn’t Colluding With Angry Atheists
Here’s a headline crafted to strike fear in the hearts of Christian conservatives, already primed…
Read MoreWhere Are “Religious Liberty” Advocates After Police Raid of Ferguson Church?
The Interfaith Alliance, a church-state separation and religious liberty advocate, today sent a letter to…
Read MoreLatest Supporters of Messianic Jews: Duck Dynasty
The Messianic Jewish Bible Institute, which last year featured former President George W. Bush at…
Read MoreThe “Libertarian Moment” Wouldn’t Exist Without Religion
Ed Kilgore takes issue with Robert Draper’s New York Times Magazine piece exploring whether the…
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The Collapse of the American Jewish Center
The polarization of American Jews has increased with each large-scale eruption of fighting between Israel and Palestinians. With each escalation there has been a shift of pro-two-state solution activists to the left; at the same time, though, the right becomes strengthened and entrenched.
Read MoreA Rabbi And An Imam Write Together About Israel and Gaza
Via Emily Hauser, I was alerted to this Joint Statement on Israel and Gaza by Imam…
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