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July 2012

July 24, 2012

Gun Laws, None Dare Call it Time

Sandy Levinson, at Balkinization: Some of this blog's readers will know that I am against...

July 18, 2012

Gary Wills on Political Purity

From NYReview of Books by Gary Wills -- his advocacy for political realism and not...

July 17, 2012

The Things People Do To Nature (RJS)

There was a fascinating article in the New York Times last Sunday - The Ecology...

July 06, 2012

On Obama’s Faith

From John Blake, at CNN.com: Anyone who doubts that a president’s faith remains important to...

July 02, 2012

A Lawyer Evaluates Supreme Court Decision

American Christians and the Health Care Decision David Opderbeck is Professor of Law and Director...

June 2012

June 25, 2012

The Heresy of American Nationalism

I didn't spend my time wandering ahead in Ross Douthat's Bad Religion to see what...

June 04, 2012

John Fea: On the Road about Christian American

From John Fea's blog: As many of the readers of my blog, “The Way of...

June 02, 2012

Abusing our Sacred Calling

With Jonathan Merritt...

May 2012

May 28, 2012

Ireland and Its Church

What Kevin says below about Ireland is occurring in the USA as well. Kevin Hargaden...

May 24, 2012

Why is War So Easy for American Christians?

This post is by Patrick Mitchel, an Irish theologian teaching in Dublin at Irish Bible...

May 18, 2012

Haidt: We are all hypocrites!

This post is by regular reader and commenter here at the Jesus Creed, Ann F-R,...

May 16, 2012

Top Five Voting Issues: Barna

From David Kinnaman at Barna: The faith leanings of likely voters are related to the...

May 14, 2012

New Generation, New Evangelicalism

The single biggest mistake of the neo-evangelical coalition, and here I'm thinking of the late...

May 12, 2012

Partisan Dissonance

Fascinating -- and I have to say that my confidence that academics can suspend partisanship...

May 11, 2012

Failed Strategies

Jonathan Merritt: Three decades ago, the evangelical faithful was galvanized by public debates over abortion,...

May 02, 2012

What Young Adults Care About

Charles Blow:

April 2012

April 29, 2012

Cyberbullying, Cyberlibel

A pastor friend told me one of his parishioners was saying bad -- untrue, destructive,...

April 26, 2012

Five Myths about Female Voters

From WaPo: Have female voters ever been more talked about, pitched to or chased after?...

April 23, 2012

Women Working, but does it pay?

Here's a story from CNN.com: What are you hearing about this? Any stories to tell?...

April 20, 2012

Faith and Political Issues

I'm not a fan of the block quote white box now at work on the...

April 20, 2012

Christians, Politics and the Poor

As you may know, there's a "serious" discussion about how best to care for the...

April 18, 2012

Ed Stetzer, President Obama, Gov Romney, and Faith

From CP: Now, the Presidential race is really on – and down to two candidates,...

April 12, 2012

The Health Care Issue: A Public Defender’s Take

This is from Patrick Hare, a longtime reader of this blog, who is a Public...

April 05, 2012

Archbishop and the President

Timothy Dolan's account of what happened between him and the President ... well, you can...

April 02, 2012

Russ Moore’s 3d Way

From The Christian Post, by Russell Moore: Russell Moore here argues that the way of...

April 01, 2012

Jesus and Healthcare Reform

By John Blake at CNN.com: OK, I want to say just two things: to implicate...

March 2012

March 31, 2012

Eventually

Eugene Robinson, at WaPo, contends eventually healthcare has to change: Eventually, however, our health-care system...

March 29, 2012

What Do We Have to Offer? (RJS)

I had the opportunity last week to attend the BioLogos Theology of Celebration Workshop. This...

March 28, 2012

Tax Code, Tax Reform

By Fareed Zakaria, at CNN.com: Does anyone like our tax code? Who opposes tax reform?...

March 27, 2012

Living Alone, Living Depressed

From CNN: (Health.com) -- It's long been known that elderly people are more prone to...