It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
I’ve always been fond of the “Charlie Brown with the football” series from Peanuts. The…
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Dems Should Take Notes From Elizabeth Warren’s Pitch-Perfect Answer on Faith
Speaking about her faith in a recent CNN town hall meeting the senator managed to avoid the mistakes of so many of her predecessors.
Read MoreDems Need More Faith, Episode LXXI: The Beer Caucus Proposal
The ‘Dems ignore faith’ narrative ignores the rise of the Nones. It’s as if it were 1954, and liberals were smarting over getting flanked by Ike on the ‘In God We Trust’ issue.
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Trump May Be “a Big Fan of Hindu,” But Hindus Are Running—and Winning—as Democrats
On Tuesday, the special election in Arizona’s eighth congressional district could produce the fifth Hindu…
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The Democrats’ Real Religion Problem, And All Of Ours
Hand to God, every mainstream commentator on religion and politics has a liturgy—a catechism—they must…
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“Pro-Life” Has Officially Lost its Meaning
For anyone whose political memory dates back more than a decade or two, the term…
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The Problem with Moral Nuance on Abortion for Democrats
The New York Times received numerous responses to an opinion piece it recently published—from a man—about how…
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Can the “Spiritual Left” Make the Change They Wish to See?
We all know about the grassroots activism of the “religious right” and the role they…
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How Much More Nuanced Can Democrats Get on Abortion Rights?
As Patti Miller noted here on RD, Thomas Groome’s Times op-ed urging Democrats to soften…
Read MoreOld White Dudes Tell the Democrats to Forget about Abortion
Writing in the New York Times, Thomas Groome, a professor of theology at Boston College,…
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