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June 2007

June 22, 2007

Israel: A Land of Competing Realities

Extremists are everywhere. In the past week the world has witnessed the extremism of Hamas...

June 17, 2007

Gary Bauer Still Doesn’t Get It

Gary Bauer wrote a response to the Sojourners faith forum entitled, “The Religious Left Still...

June 09, 2007

McChurch — “God Has Abandoned America Because of Our Celebration of Lesbian Sex”

As for calamities, what God could and should do to His people who are living...

June 09, 2007

“People of the Snowmobile” Bemoan Loss of Moral Values

According to the polling information, the people of America perceive themselves to be awakening to...

June 09, 2007

Questions for Rob Schenck

Rev. Rob Schenck of the National Clergy Council leveled below-the-belt broadsides against the leading Democratic...

June 07, 2007

The Latest: March 2007 Archive

3/31, 8:12p CT: Here's an item I initially was about to ignore, before realizing that's...

June 05, 2007

Tut-Tutting the Growing Faith Debate

There has been some hemming and hawing in the blogosphere over the faith-based forum that...

June 05, 2007

Is it Time to Strip the Word “Marriage” Out of the Civil Code?

Lead by example, yes; lead by self-sacrificing love, yes; lead by apartheid, no! In a...

June 05, 2007

A Groundbreaking Forum on Faith

Sojourner’s presidential forum on faith tonight was truly groundbreaking. We had the top three Democratic...

June 04, 2007

Moral Moments in the Democratic Debate

There was no direct talk of religious faith in last night’s Democratic presidential debate in...

May 2007

May 31, 2007

Rise of the Neo-Evangelical in American Politics

Leadership in the arts, business, medicine, politics and religion comes not from training at Harvard,...

May 30, 2007

Study: Media Ignores Religious Progressives

A Media Matters study has confirmed what many of us have long believed: that the...

May 30, 2007

McChurch and OPS – “Other People’s Sins”

I am sick to death of this running debate over whether homosexuality is a sin....

May 27, 2007

A look at religion and values in the Democratic Party

This is an empirical study I did on values and religiosity in America. After finishing...

May 26, 2007

The Fallacies of Neo-Conservatism

Perhaps the most important exchange in the latest republican debate occured between Ron Paul,...

May 24, 2007

A list of differences between Republican and Democrat

Hi, I am trying to create a list of the differences between Democrat and...

May 24, 2007

Power to the People

John Lennon said it best in 1971!! The link above is one of...

May 23, 2007

NO MORE LIES ABOUT IRAQ OR AL QAEDA

Today we have new fabrications from Bush and his administration. It's just more of the...

May 22, 2007

Six things that trouble me and Five that assure me as an American Democrat

1.I am sorry that that Republicans and many Democrats venerate their party more than their...

May 22, 2007

McChurch: 300 Million Served and Still Hungry

by Dr. Stan Moody My book is my appeal to millions of American Christians...

May 22, 2007

Why I am a Democrat

I have always been a Democrat. If my definition of the word Democrat were in...

May 22, 2007

Iraq, A Hell on Earth Made in Washington D.C.

Why America went into Iraq is something for the pundits, academics and the politicians to...

May 22, 2007

By their fruits are they known; the smartest thing Congress could do

My faith teaches me that “By your fruits are ye known." I think it's crystal...

May 21, 2007

A New Guard of Evangelical Leaders

The political fissures among evangelicals received high-profile treatment in the New York Times today. The...

May 17, 2007

Bush Won’t Deny Authorizing Hospital Visit

At a press conference today, George W. Bush showed his true colors -- again. This...

May 16, 2007

Death of a Titan: Where Were You When Jerry Falwell Died?

In a world ruled by a sovereign God, who knows but that Jerry Falwell was...

May 15, 2007

Death of an Adversary

Jerry Falwell, dead today at 73, was a rock star of the Christian right. He...

May 14, 2007

A Mother’s Right to Choose

The cult of individuality is an insidious virus that leaves us stranded and alone. So...

May 13, 2007

Save Our Troops!

The other night on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”, GOP Pollster Dr. Frank Luntz...

May 10, 2007

Why Democracies Fail

I'd like to answer my critics before they accuse me of being an "American Hater." ...