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Religion Dispatches
Rev. Wright has been likened to his biblical namesake, but there’s a crucial difference between Wright’s rhetoric and that of the prophet Jeremiah…
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Religion Dispatches
Less strident, less partisan, less defensive—the emerging evangelical center defies the stereotype…
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Religion Dispatches
As the old guard retires, a generational challenge emerges for the Christian Right. Who can lead a movement whose constituency no longer agrees with its core tenets?
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Religion Dispatches
While it won’t be the same as it ever was, an Obama presidency will give the Religious Right an opportunity to bask in the glow of martyrdom and seize the mantle of underdog, while it raises hundreds of millions of dollars for its political campaigns and the never-ending ‘culture wars.’
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Religion Dispatches
While biblical opposition to gay civil rights echoes the opposition to ending slavery, that institution didn’t end with the triumph of the abolitionist biblical view.
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Religion Dispatches
Was Obama’s interpretation of the proper relationship of faith to the Constitution really a “fruitcake” position as Dr. James Dobson called it?
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Religion Dispatches
Conservative evangelicals plan to protest for the right to endorse candidates from the pulpit; they forget that their tax-free existence is a right, not a privilege…
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Religion Dispatches
Like Bush in 2000 Sarah Palin is delivering a clear message to conservative evangelicals, who get her call for women to view their highest calling in service to male leadership: willing helpmeets to their husbands’, fathers’ and pastors’ authority…
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Religion Dispatches
Evangelicals meet in Denver to pump fists for McCain; the old leadership wasn’t all that was missing…
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Religion Dispatches
An expert witness in the case against the affable Roy Moore recalls a meeting during which they tangled over the First Amendment.
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