America’s Fat Tues Turns to Ash Wed: Imagine a Humility-Driven Recovery
The president boasted that America will be “back” economically, but can we can afford to go back to the kind of economy we had during the house of cards period?
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Guess Who’s More Popular Than Jesus?
A new Harris poll reveals America’s heroes…and those who are heroes no more.
Read MoreSometimes, Sides Must be Taken: Obama and Lincoln
Like Lincoln, Obama has the ability to bring those of different creeds together under the American flag. But let’s hope obama doesn’t forget that genuine disagreements exist and that sometimes sides must be taken.
Read MorePartisanship Is The New Civil Religion
Sure we are supposed to pray for our enemies, but for some Christians, Democrats are the enemy you dare not pray for, the party you dare not join. And the prejudice goes both ways.
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Double Helix: Obama, Race, Science, and Religion
In the race to define race, the issue for modern science is bound up in a paradoxical reality: while most scientists believe race is a social construct, over 10,000 articles have been published in the past 5 years on the role of race in disease. What can Obama do?
Read MorePresident Receives Mixed Messages from Catholic Hierarchy
In a jolly pope-a-gram, Benedict welcomes the new president; the head US Cardinal is not so friendly in his welcome.
Read MoreInauguration Captures US Patchwork
The door is not just open to Muslim Americans; we are not sitting in the living room; there is a room for us in the house now.
Read MoreNew Bailout For Hypocrites
Right wing American Family Association is blaming Obama for the bailout. How ridiculous.
Read MoreInauguration: An Evangelical And A Gay Bishop—What’s Missing?
As the Obama team rounds up unlikely bedfellows for the inaugural ceremonies it seems to have forgotten something: we are not all Christian.
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The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency
Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action circulates a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” depicting a doomsday scenario of Bible banning, a disbanded Boy Scouts, taxpayer-funded abortion, gay marriage from coast to coast, talk radio outlawed, God expunged from the public sphere, and, gulp, no guns.
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