Maybe Instead of Solidarity, The Religious Left Should Try Being Indivisible
If I were asked to briefly summarize my various critiques of the religious left, I’d…
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The New Religious Left: A Marketing Dream or Political Reality?
The religious left movement is stuck between the universalism of its aims and the particularity of the people who constitute it.
Read MoreNo Religious Left “Split” On Anti-LGBT Religious Exemption
In fact, there was overwhelming religious support for the executive order, minus the exemption.
Read More100 Religious Leaders to Obama: No Religious Exemption in ENDA Executive Order
One hundred religious leaders from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and interfaith organizations have signed a letter…
Read MoreThe “Prophetic” Voice of Jim Wallis Jumps on Marriage Equality Bandwagon
Sort of.
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The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism
Once we understand that there are shades of evangelicalism, and that they manifest in a variety of political convictions, perhaps we can recognize that religious beliefs deserve legitimate space in the public square.
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The Failure of Obama’s Faith Strategy Revealed
“Spiritual advisors” upset over president’s stand for marriage equality.
Read MoreDems’ New Faith Outreach Director “Pro-Life” and Against Marriage Equality (Updated)
The Rev. Derrick Harkins has instead sought “common understanding.”
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Mark O. Hatfield and the Politics of an Earlier Era
In 1970 Mark Hatfield delivered the commencement address at Fuller Theological Seminary, the nation’s premier neo-evangelical seminary. The senator, “a verbal spellbinder,” dark and “too handsome, almost, for his own good,” according to political observers, cut quite a figure.
Read MoreHow the Religious Left, or Whatever It’s Called, Failed at the Budget Big Game
Like the Democrats, getting beaten in the war of ideas.
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