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January 2008

January 30, 2008

Soaring candidates in ’08

If Mike Huckabee has said it once, he has said it a thousand times during...

January 23, 2008

‘Juno’ and pro-life Hollywood

Every year or so, a Cinderella movie leaps into the ultimate Hollywood A-list -- the...

December 2007

December 26, 2007

Religion ’07: Huck’s Christmas story

It was a simple commercial, with Mike Huckabee posed in front of a set of...

December 19, 2007

The exaltation of Mitt Romney

Few religious leaders on earth have as much power and authority as the "prophet, seer...

October 2007

October 31, 2007

‘God-o-Meter’ Democrats

It wasn't easy being the token evangelical in the Howard Dean office during the 2004...

October 24, 2007

Young, cosmopolitan evangelicals

WASHINGTON -- Jim Wallis and Richard Land were preaching to the same flock, but their...

July 2007

July 04, 2007

Mike Huckabee still believes

Like any other Bible Belt state, Arkansas contains more than its share of church camps.Gov....

June 2007

June 27, 2007

Obama’s awesome testimony

Play the right guitar chords and worshippers in megachurch America will automatically start singing these...

June 13, 2007

Truth, tolerance and faith

ISTANBUL -- When it comes to religion and politics, many skeptics are convinced that strong...

June 06, 2007

Vast right-wing media conspiracy

When it comes to covering religion news, the mainstream American press is a vast right-wing...

March 2007

March 07, 2007

Sinners on the counterattack

The panic may strike in the shelter of a Starbucks, when a customer realizes that...

February 2007

February 28, 2007

What Wilberforce would do

It's rare to hear political leaders speak with candor when it comes to religion.Imagine the...

November 2006

November 01, 2006

Hypocrites are us

Talk about bad timing.On the day after former Congressman Mark Foley entered an alcohol rehab...

August 2006

August 16, 2006

Democrats, faith and Roe

Talk to Democrats at church and you will usually find citizens who yearn to find...

August 24, 2005

Democrats trying to see red

Political strategist James Carville said it, candidate Bill Clinton believed it and loyal Democrats have...

June 2005

June 15, 2005

Howard Dean: There he goes again

It was a mean question, but Howard Dean had to know it was coming.The Democratic...

December 2004

December 15, 2004

There’s power in the words

White House scribe Michael Gerson's telephone rang with a vengeance after the 2003 State of...

November 2004

November 24, 2004

Define ‘evangelical’ — please

Ask Americans to rank the world's most influential evangelicals and the Rev. Billy Graham will...

November 17, 2004

Red, blue and green (tea)

One perk of covering a White House race from day one is that early-bird journalists...

November 10, 2004

Can Christians vote ‘no’?

Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre is opposed to abortion and the rise of what Pope John Paul...

October 2004

October 27, 2004

W. Bush — theological Rorschach test

In Iowa, some United Methodists want the president and vice president tossed out of their...

September 2004

September 29, 2004

Call it church-state espionage

Call it church-state espionage.Unitarians and other activists on the religious left have been slipping into...

September 22, 2004

Snakes, Bush and the Greeks

The woman on the telephone was speaking English, but it was hard to understand what...

August 2004

August 25, 2004

Whither the Catholic Catholic voters?

Former Boston mayor Raymond Flynn doesn't see a lot of Republicans at the 9 o'clock...

June 2004

June 16, 2004

‘Progressives’ in the pews

When the Rev. Robert Maddox went to work as Jimmy Carter's White House faith liaison,...

June 09, 2004

Reagan: Messiah? Antichrist? Normal mainliner?

As a Baptist preacher's kid who grew up in Texas in the 1970s, I had...

May 2004

May 05, 2004

Stalking the anti-fundamentalist voter

Any Top 10 list of slogans for abortion-rights signs would include "Curb your dogma" and...

February 2004

February 04, 2004

Terrorism, fiction and the Truth

WASHINGTON -- One of the most sobering sights that novelist Joel Rosenberg has ever seen...

January 2004

January 28, 2004

That Christians For Dean www guy

John Paget has no doubt there are conservative Christians in cyberspace who are praying for...

September 2003

September 17, 2003

Symbols & Substance in Alabama

Susan Pace Hamill's colleagues on the law faculty at the University of Alabama were puzzled...