Evangelical: Why Do Many Evangelicals Get Science From a Creationist?
Religion and science in couples therapy.
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Booing Gay Soldiers and Expressing Faith in the Public Square
The oddities of last night’s debate.
Read MorePerry Taps Anti-Gay Crusader and “Prayer Lady” for Florida Team
Leadership team announced for Florida Republican Party straw poll this week.
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Judeo-Christian America: The Fall of the ‘Christian Nation’
A new book shows how a cohort of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews altered the nation; from the Social Gospel movement through anti-Communism, Civil Rights and even into the rise of the religious right.
Read MoreThe Pundits and the Dominionists
What is the media getting, and not getting, in its coverage of the religious right in politics?
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Paranoia and the Progressive Press: A Response to WaPo’s Religion Columnist
Last week, Lisa Miller, religion writer and editor (Newsweek and the Washington Post) filed an op-ed in which she fulminated against “the left” and journalists who have raised concerns about the influence of dominionist thinkers on Republican presidential candidates like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry.
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Founding Father John Adams’ Advice to Rick Perry: Don’t Meddle in Religion
Texas Governor Rick Perry says of his August 6 “call to prayer for a nation in crisis” that we need to call on Jesus because “some problems are beyond our power to solve.” Here, John Adams is resurrected to provide guidance.
Read MoreTea Party Rhetoric: Literal Slavery Not So Bad
But “tax slavery” and “slavery to sin”—that’s another thing.
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‘Republicanity’—The GOP Transformation is Nearly Complete
Let’s just face the facts and not kid ourselves anymore. It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee… er, tea. The Republican Party is not a political party but is now a full-fledged religious movement.
Read MoreNeo-Confederates and the Revival of “Theological War” for the “Christian Nation”
The theological underpinnings of GOP presidential candidates’ ties to neo-confederate groups.
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