Updated: Response to the New York Times on Islam
In a recent Times Op-Ed neoconservative Edward Luttwak labeled Barack Obama “an apostate from Islam,” and that “would cause… complications in our dealings with the Islamic world,”
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The Black Church: Institution or Abstraction?
Rev. Wright’s assertions that it’s really the “Black Church” under attack help reduce the complexity of the religious life of black America to a soundbite…
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Maybe the real “straight-talk express” should run for the nation’s highest office himself; the one test for president Wright cannot pass is the one the mainstream media insist on more than any other.
Read MoreAmerican Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus
McCain’s repudiation of Hagee has made news while a remark from a Georgia Republican has gone unnoticed…
Read MoreGodless Oaths of Office
When the religious rhetoric peaks this election season just recall the number of mentions God gets in the Constitution…
Read MoreCompassion Forum or “Confession” Forum?
The questions were seemingly meant to induce affirmations from Democrats that God is indeed mysterious and awesome…
Read MoreRDPulpit: Stop Playing Politics with Prayer
Missouri Republicans push a meaningless Constitutional amendment in an effort to increase religious right voter turnout.
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Getting Wright Wrong: Preaching is Not Policy
Anyone who thinks that full agreement with your pastor is necessary has never been to church…
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Dispatches from the Beltway: Beyond the Graying and Greening Religious Right
Less strident, less partisan, less defensive—the emerging evangelical center defies the stereotype…
Read MoreReview: Is the Religious Right Dying?
A crop of new books on the waning influence of conservative Christianity in American politics.
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