Religion Dispatches
Is President Obama destined to disappoint progressives? Our columnist channels theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, reminding us of the human potential for both good and evil, and offering a pragmatic approach…
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Is authentic religious commitment incompatible with critical thinking, reason, or compromise, as philosopher Simon Critchley seems to imply in a recent essay on Obama? Or is our challenge to refuse the false oppositions between total transformation and conflict, or politics and piety?
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The president’s faith, according to John McCain, is “[the] number one issue.” Having scoured the public record, the author reports back with a startling proposal: John McCain may not believe in God.
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While both progressives and conservatives seek confirmation of their politics in the bible, how does one derive a political outlook from a text with few parallels to the political context in which we live? In other words, how do you ask “What would Jesus do?” when the one thing Jesus couldn’t do was vote?
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What the presidential candidates’ responses to a question about the nature of evil reveal about the state of American Christianity…
Read MoreWas Obama’s interpretation of the proper relationship of faith to the Constitution really a “fruitcake” position as Dr. James Dobson called it?
Read MoreThe exploration of new worlds has traditionally been both liberating and exploitative; can we can break the cycle with Mars?
Read MoreDoes Obama’s coded evangelical language signal a shift from black prophetic politics to the evangelical politics of personal salvation?
Read MoreA growing theology of male headship and female submissiveness argues that men and women are equal under God, but have different leadership responsibilities as laid out by Scripture…
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Instead of building excitement and a commitment to social justice, the Good News is producing yawns. Poll data shows.
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