national day of prayer

Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States, an annual day of observance that was formally established by Congress in 1952. The law that establishes a National Day of Prayer ( 36 U.S.C. §…

Franklin Graham, panderer to the most powerful (and most conservative) members of the GOP, revives Obama as Muslim lie.

If the traditional practice of prayer in the context of traditional institutional religions is increasingly meaningless for a significant and growing proportion of American believers and seekers, one wonders what the spiritual or civic value is of attempting to encourage the practice through governmental fiat.

Former NAE lobbyist and founding partner of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good says Graham is being “inflammatory.”

Event ends up using prayer to divide rather than bring us together.

But she’s wrong about the rest of the National Day of Prayer.

Religious right’s “phony martyr” claims activist for military religious freedom is anti-Christian.

But focus on his comments on Islam obscures issues about Christianity and women.

Other watchdogs also object to “Christian-themed” event featuring evangelist who had denounced Islam as “evil.”

Sarah Palin’s denunciation of a federal judge’s ruling on a National Day of Prayer reveals that she knows as little about religion as she does about the Founders.