Dear President Bush
As you approach the end of your time in the White House, I want to make sure I say “Thank you.” Thank you for transforming my faith and my politics.
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Faith-Based Initiatives in the Obama Administration?
If the Obama Administration sticks with Bush’s faith-based initiatives they would do well to avoid the numerous mistakes and predilection for corruption that haunted the Bush version.
Read MoreThe President as Sovereign Leader
Though it may be unhelpful to draw comparisons between the administration and fascist regimes, it’s important to recognize the “family resemblances” in their political reasoning and self-conception.
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The Byzantine Bush Tell-All
The original insider memoir, by Procopius of Caesarea, gave the word ‘byzantine’ its current meaning…
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Obama’s Faith-Based Makeover
Obama pledges to remake Bush’s faith-based initiative. No one is pleased…
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Organizing with Obama: Faith in Action
The “compassionate conservatism” of the Bush era was based on the idea that “sinful sloth” leads to poverty, and only religion can cure such a weakness. But the underpinning of Obama’s faith-based plan is political, not theological…
Read MoreAP: “Bush: Soldiers Live Out Gospel”
Deconstructing the systematic political theology in the president’s Easter address; are American soldiers merely imitating Christ?
Read MoreInsert Provocative Title Here: The New Media Landscape
As online media supplants traditional publishing quantity is often mistaken for quality, some say. Especially where religion reporting is concerned.
Read MoreHe Changed Bush’s Heart, Yet Destroyed the Faith of a Nation!
The outgoing president’s much-vaunted faith may have given religion a bad name.
Read MorePakistan and Iran, a War on Two Fronts
Why did Bush not do more for peace during his failed presidency? Because someone is always lobbing a rocket or detonating a bomb, and this invalidates any and every gesture toward peace, in his simple view.
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