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March 2015

March 02, 2015

CPAC Highlight: Obama is proclaimed anti-Christian

A panel discussion this past weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) offered a...

February 2015

February 28, 2015

Faith Leaders Unite to Spare a Life

As of Friday night at 8:00 p.m., 96 ordained clergy in the state of Georgia and...

February 22, 2015

Prayer doesn’t answer with discrimination

Prayer is a powerful motivator. In heart and mind, one reaches out to God, a...

September 2012

September 18, 2012

Secret Confessions from the GOP Nominee: A Response

Yesterday, the twitter-sphere blew up with articles and videos of Mitt Romney’s secret confession about...

September 14, 2012

Disillusionment, Democracy, and the Fate of President Obama

(A version of this blog was posted last week on the Political Theology blog, There...

August 2012

August 21, 2012

Why Faithful Democrats?

"If your politics are based on your values, we need to seriously look at your...

August 20, 2012

Two American Dreams and One Economic Reality

Everyone in the country has heard the line from President Obama's speech in Roanoke, VA,...

August 16, 2012

“God’s Politics” Still Stands

In 2005, Reverend Jim Wallis published a book, “God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It...

August 03, 2012

What Can We Learn from the Grapes of Wrath?

So the past couple of weeks I have been leisurely reading about a family struggling...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Public Policy with a Dash of Empathy

Each person's viewpoints are a product of their own experiences. You see things through a...

July 26, 2012

On Becoming ‘Almost’ Amish

In some of my spare time at work, I've been reading a book titled "Almost...

July 24, 2012

The Obamney Religion Problem, Part II

If the 2012 Republican primary campaign is remembered for one thing, it must be the...

July 23, 2012

The Obamney Religion Problem, Part I

I recently read an essay posted on ReligionandPolitics.org, titled “Whatever happened to Romney’s ‘Evangelical Problem’?”....

July 20, 2012

Are You a Good Steward?

By Drew Robinson, Good Steward Campaign Field Director As a young Evangelical Christian there are...

July 19, 2012

The Triumph of Hypothetical Evil Over Real Evil

Originally posted in Sojourners' Blog, "God's Politics" Written by Aaron D. Taylor There’s a famous maxim...

July 18, 2012

Proud and Faithful Democrats

This past weekend, the New York Times ran an op-ed piece by their resident conservative...

July 13, 2012

A Theology of Failure

What does it mean to have an adequate theology of failure? Or rather, what does...

July 12, 2012

You Need More than a Fishing Permit

“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day, but teach a man...

July 09, 2012

A Note on the Arms Trade Treaty

By Bishop Elias Taban, President of the South Sudan Evangelical Alliance We all know the...

July 09, 2012

Celebration of the Black Church

This post is a response to Professor Barbara Dianne Savage's "The Myth of the Black Church." For...

July 06, 2012

An Addendum to Feminist Theology

Guilty as charged. I did what every feminist theologian has been criticized for. I wrote...

July 05, 2012

Why I’m a Faithful Democrat

By Maggie Thornton Jesus made it clear to his disciples that “to whom much is...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Having It All, or Having Full Humanity?

It’s been a busy week in media. Notably, the U.S. Supreme Court passed down decisions...

June 28, 2012

What Today Truly Means

In the coming days, the headlines will assign blame and credit for today’s historic ruling...

June 20, 2012

Why I Hate the “Middle Class,” But Love Working Americans

One of my favorite quotes is FDR's famous line, "The test of our progress is...

June 14, 2012

Will Christians Actually Feed the Hungry?

When we harness our collective power to produce legislation that benefits the most vulnerable we...

June 04, 2012

Putting Politics Before People

By labeling President Obama's efforts to increase access to healthcare for the uninsured as "socialist,"...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

Why All Bibles Should Go Digital…

Okay, every bible becoming an e-book might be a little hyperbolic, but maybe not by...

May 28, 2012

The Founding Values of America!

This is the question: Has America moved away from the values that it was once founded upon?...

May 23, 2012

Politics of a Seamless Garment: Catholic Universities, HHS and Onward

In December of 1983 Joseph Cardinal Bernardin was invited to give an address on Catholic...