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April 2007

April 16, 2007

McChurch: Haven for “Christian Dupes?”

Stop sending money to these charlatans. Stop listening to their ranting and solicitations. Condemn them...

April 13, 2007

Another “Nonpartisan” Republican Orgy

These right-wing "non-profit groups" just can't help cheating on Christ and getting in bed with...

April 08, 2007

UBA2 Ugly Born-Again American

Enter the "Ugly Born-Again American" (UBA2), swashbuckling, Bible-spouting "ditto head," whose fears and failures can...

April 07, 2007

Long Live Agribusiness; Long Kill Human Beings

Shocking: giant agribusiness is more concerned with lining its pockets than with saving lives. ...

March 2007

March 30, 2007

Pandering to the Wacko Fringe

God help us! Can we survive another eight years of ideology in place of leadership?...

March 29, 2007

Focus on Excommunication?

Does James Dobson really get to excommunicate people? Focus on the Family chief James...

March 26, 2007

Baal and the Billy-Bob Churches

Do you suppose there are seven-thousand in America who have not bowed their knee to...

March 18, 2007

Just Who Is My Neighbor?

Pope Benedict argues that it is not enough to simply love other Catholics or Christians. ...

March 17, 2007

McChurch – Killing Two gods With One Prayer

We're in trouble, folks; God may have stopped being amused. It has been a subject...

March 17, 2007

Support the Troops? Words vs. Deeds

There's now a bomb-resistant vehicle called an MRAP that protects our troops far better than...

March 15, 2007

If Peace Is Weak, So Is Jesus

It's anathema in politics to preach "peace." We can talk diplomacy, and maybe even deign...

March 14, 2007

The Institution of Marriage in the Holy American Empire

The church giveth, and the state taketh away! What God has joined together, Caesar puts...

March 09, 2007

Ann Coulter Talks Tough, Ann Coulter Faces Consequences

Ann Coulter's latest adventure in Antichristianity: she "understands" why abortion clinic workers are murdered. Here's...

March 08, 2007

The Latest: January 2007 Archive

1/30, 6:28p CT: A proposed New York citizenship test has ridiculously hard questions; a minimum...

March 08, 2007

The Latest: December 2006 Archive

12/27, 1:10p CT: Tom Donnelly wants your thoughts on the Latino influence on American Catholicism....

March 07, 2007

Counting homeless, don’t forget to house them

HUD recently presented their first ever Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, showing upwards of 3

March 06, 2007

Joe Klein: Hoist by His Own Petard

Time magazine's Joe Klein has been under fire in the liberal blogosphere for deriding "left-wing...

March 02, 2007

Dobson, the Heritage Foundation, and the Poor

Katie at Faith and Public Life made this argument quite well in her post today,...

March 02, 2007

Countdown to Armageddon

The 2006 national election was a small victory for the voice of reason. But unless...

February 2007

February 28, 2007

Highest Levels: Corporate Profits, Severe Poverty

Nearly 16 million Americans are living in deep or severe poverty. While this is not...

February 26, 2007

Jews Grafted In: A Case Against Christian Zionism

Self-denial, fasting, prayer, baptism, first communion, Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs -- all those things,...

February 23, 2007

Iraq: Step Up Or Step Out

In The New Republic, Lawrence Kaplan says, "By focusing so much on the civil war...

February 22, 2007

The Politics of Imperfection

With the 2008 Presidential race already heating up, my Lenten reflections led me to ask...

February 22, 2007

Which Came First, Faith or Reason?

It takes no faith to insist that the Ten Commandments be carved over the courthouse...

February 22, 2007

Poor and Sick Children among Apathetic Christians

UNICEF's latest report on child well-being shows the U.S. failing miserably. The report looked...

February 21, 2007

What does “secular left” even mean?

A debate about the "religious left" has raged in the blogosphere for a little over...

February 19, 2007

A Common Foundation

Find common ground to combat poverty on a congregational and individual level. Last week,...

February 18, 2007

Oregon Faith Caucus Chair Running to Top State Party Job

Something exciting is happening in Oregon. Something exciting is happening in Oregon. As many of...

February 17, 2007

What Happened to the “Red Letter Christians?”

Both the Christian Right and the Christian Left are making the same interpretive error of...

February 14, 2007

If a Democrat Prays in a Forest and No One Hears It…

Media Matters has picked up up a juicy nugget today. On Sunday, Tim Russert...