This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American
Small Town Spirituality, Big City Hate: For those with ears to hear it, Sarah Palin’s speeches echoed the work of Westbrook Pegler, a mid-century Rush Limbaugh, and then some….
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RDPulpit: Pro-Slavery, Anti-Gay, Similar Theology
While biblical opposition to gay civil rights echoes the opposition to ending slavery, that institution didn’t end with the triumph of the abolitionist biblical view.
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RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy
His “new evangelical” positions on global warming, condoms, et al., separate Warren from the old guard of the religious right—but when it comes to reproductive and gay civil rights, the best-selling reverend assumes the hardest of the hard line.
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The Very Idea of “Gay Church”
The impulse to minister to the homosexual community of L.A. led to a new kind of Christian church—the MCC—committed to inclusivity and undoing the old divisions incised across Christian history.
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Glamour, Nostalgia, and Coming of Age: The Prom As Sacred
Whether prom signals triumph or terror, it’s a powerful rite of passage, endowed with an unmistakable aura of the sacred—if you know where to look.
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Catholic Voters No Longer Beholden to Bishops and Abortion
Catholics have often been urged by their clergy to be single-issue voters when it comes to abortion. But the tide has turned, and this year a much broader social justice agenda is guiding these voters.
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Leahy’s Immigration Provision Sows Sex Panic Among Key Religious Groups
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 MoreGay Marriage to End “Culture Wars”?
It all rides on the passage of California’s anti-same-sex marriage initiative, according to the AFA’s Don Wildmon
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American Virgin Doesn’t Quite Get It
Comic about an evangelical teen suffers from some critical flaws…
Read MoreWomen’s Ordination, Round Two
First 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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