Will Dems Find Moxie to Resist Immoral GOP Tax Plan?
For almost ten years now, the folks at Sojourners and other progressive evangelical outfits have…
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FRC’s Perkins Selling Straight Hot Sex
Perhaps they’re hoping the great sex will make up for lack of food and shelter.
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None Means None (Not Atheist, Agnostic, Unbeliever…)
“I’d feel most comfortable assigning myself to the category of people who prefer not to be assigned to categories,” a fifty-something, Silicon Valley entrepreneur I’ll call Nathan* joked when I asked him how he’d describe his religious identification or affiliation. “But I suppose ‘none’ will do.”
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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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Has Sojourners Really Changed its Policy on
Gay Ads?
Homelessness can be a material condition, or it can be spiritual…
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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.
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Hatfield, Early Republican Critic of Religious Right,
Dead at 89
Questioned anti-communist Christian crusaders of the Cold War era.
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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Will religious progressives figure out that Jim Wallis isn’t so progressive?
Read MorePaul Ryan’s Bible, Jim Wallis’, Or None of the Above?
The limits of debating policy through the Bible.
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