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October 04, 2006

The Silence of the Moral Majority

After being lectured to by religious conservatives over the threat to the family of gay...

October 04, 2006

Pilgrim’s Progressive Christianity

I am adding my voice to the "blog-alogue" because our progressive Christian witness is still...

October 04, 2006

Jesus Rode a Donkey

By Linda Seger To me, both Christianity and democracy are challenging - they challenge...

October 04, 2006

Rush Limbaugh Makes a Stand

"Look it, maybe the kid did it himself. I posited that possibility on Monday. You...

October 03, 2006

Lost in the Foley Mess

As the media continues to flood us with the details regarding the Foley scandel it...

October 03, 2006

JUDGE NOT LEST THOU BE JUDGED

"What Bill Clinton did was vile and repulsive" were the words uttered by then Representative...

October 02, 2006

The fruit the tree bares

Jesus told his deciples they would know the tree by the fruit it would bare....

October 02, 2006

MLK and the Sin of Silence

I could never completely describe Martin Luther King, Jr. in just a few sentences,...

October 02, 2006

Religious Leaders Call for Repentance, Resignations in Foley Scandal

By Jesse Lava, FaithfulDemocrats.com FaithfulDemocrats.com just organized...

October 02, 2006

BREAKING: ‘Focus on the Family’ issues scathing rebuke of House GOP leadership

Made you look!

October 02, 2006

WaPo reviews “The Politics of Jesus”

Faithful Democrats theologian Obery Hendricks' new book, "The Politics of Jesus," got a good review...

October 02, 2006

About Rep. Foley

Florida's House Representative Foley must be thoroughly outed and admonished. As a mother and grandmother...

October 02, 2006

The sobering side of Salvation

Friends and fellow belivers, its time we set aside the peace and Love...

October 01, 2006

“Rachmones” for Foley

I feel no pity whatsoever for Foley's violation of the public trust, nor his selfish...

October 01, 2006

The G.O.P. War on Christianity

The House recently voted along partisan lines for a bill that would cut down on...

October 01, 2006

Foley, the Republican Leadership, and Schadenfreude

It deeply saddens me to try to imagine how blinded by power Boehner and others...

October 01, 2006

Foley is just the tip of the Iceberg

This is the True War on Terror; the battle begins not in some far away...

September 2006

September 30, 2006

Chairman Dean, Authenticity, and the 50-State Strategy

If religion forms your political core and you want to talk about, you should --...

September 30, 2006

Becoming a Father (A Political Manifesto)

Becoming a father has brought clarity to my soul - one could say spiritually and...

September 30, 2006

A Return to Cardinal Virtues

A year ago today, one of the best American Catholic thinkers, Monika Hellwig, died after...

September 30, 2006

Voting for the common good

Our friends at Catholic Alliance for the Common Good have just released a short but...

September 30, 2006

Senate discounts Geneva Convention ban on torture and fair treatment

The Senate approved a new law Friday giving Mr. Bush virtually unfettered authority over the...

September 29, 2006

Mark Foley on Faith and Values

Mark Foley -- who just resigned from Congress in disgrace after it was discovered he...

September 29, 2006

Whose life are we “pro”?

Columbia University historian (and FD blogger) Randall Balmer recently canvassed eight conservative Christian groups for...

September 29, 2006

Struggle-Free Morality

Michael Kinsley is the kind of writer who not only makes the rest of us...

September 29, 2006

The Hall of Shame

I thought you'd like to know exactly who sold the soul of America in the...

September 29, 2006

Surveillance in White and Black, or The Seven Deadly Sins of Progressives

Faithful Democrats are on the correct side of the torture and detention debate. However, I...

September 28, 2006

Faithless Democrats

Well, it's all over but the shouting...and screaming and pleas for mercy in Arabic, Pashto,...

September 28, 2006

When Evangelicals Draft Our Platform

If you're looking for Democratic religious outreach success stories, one of the first places...

September 28, 2006

Religious right needs to address other values

Former Senator Danforth is right. It is high time the Republicans unaligned themselves from the...