Religion Dispatches
There was a time when it seemed like progress for Catholics and Jews to be folded into Protestant America and frequently referred to as a single entity. For most, that time has passed.
Read MoreHow dare they pick the Muslim version of me?
Read More7 from the Reverend Lee Peterson collection.
Read MoreAs he drops out, he leaves his religious legacy on the race.
Read MoreA political, not theological, co-belligerence.
Read MoreCalled Perkins “one of the godliest men I’ve ever known.”
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“What the feminist movement and the LGBT movement have become for religious communities is a test of hospitality. Are you really open to accepting and welcoming everyone? Is the personhood of the gay couple as welcome as the personhood of the straight couple? It’s not just simply what your political position is about the rights of these people, but are these people really people? And are they people with their full wisdom, their full experience, their full sense of who they are? Are they really, truly welcomed into the deepest realms of making community?”
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The candidate, ca. 2006.
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At the end of 2011, in a sign of what’s to come, the U.S. Bishops warned the Obama administration to amend a regulation on contraception in its health care legislation or stand accused of religious discrimination.
Read MoreNew poll shows greater evangelical suspicion of Obama’s religion, evolution, and interracial marriage.
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