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Religion Dispatches
That crashing sound you heard Monday morning was waves of change breaching the levees of the evangelical Christian world when one of its most venerable icons, the Rev. Tony Campolo, came out in favor…
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Andraé Crouch, the incomparable songwriter, gospel singer and preacher, died in Los Angeles on January 9, 2015 of a heart attack. Billy Graham once said of Crouch that he was “The greatest hymn writer…
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Shea helped the worshiping faithful understand the purchasing power of Christian consumers as an extension of their piety; as form of devotional practice that encompassed the ordinary pleasures of music entertainment.
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Women in pants, gay pride, a certain presidential candidate, and the athletes who probably outranked him in popularity.
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In the process of doing all they could to defeat Obama, self-proclaimed and media-designated evangelicals discredited their message and reduced it to a mere political gospel.
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Catholics may well decide the election. But I daresay it won’t be because they line up behind the bishops.
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As Election Day approaches, the most craven, partisan, dire (and dumb) religious appeals begin to surface.
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Mitt Romney’s endorsement by various televangelists obscures the more important ways in which the candidate himself now projects the essence of televangelism.
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It’s being widely reported, but there’s just one problem… okay, two. There are at least two problems…
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In his latest the Times’ conservative Wunderkind Ross Douthat attempts to explain the current crisis as the result of our nation’s departure from orthodoxy. An honest look at the history of orthodoxy and he might see a past rife with the sin and brutality, enforced less by faith than by coercion.
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