RD Articles
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By Andre C. Willis
Does Obama's coded evangelical language signal a shift from black prophetic politics to the evangelical politics of personal salvation?
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By Mark Hulsether
Liberal media claims that Obama was "sandbagged" at Saddleback, but is this just a knee-jerk reaction to evangelical influence in politics?
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By Mark Gstohl
What the presidential candidates' responses to a question about the nature of evil reveal about the state of American Christianity...
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By Gary Laderman
More than Tupac or Marilyn or Di or Kurt or Jimi, the cult of Elvis transcends labels like industry or entertainment; it is worthy of church, but the spirit of Elvis cannot be institutionalized...
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By Kim Bobo
A major union's Labor Day concession to Muslim workers sparks anti-immigrant outrage in a Tennessee town...
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By Louis A. Ruprecht
The Beijing Opening Ceremonies had an odd way of ignoring history, politics, and the West itself...
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An interfaith coalition of clergy urge Obama to reject war, corporatism, ecological catastrophe and business as usual in favor of "a New Bottom Line"...
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By Bill Berkowitz
California's Proposition 8 would overturn the state's Supreme Court decision to allow same-sex marriage — right wing religious groups are girding for the battle they are calling "the Armageddon of the culture war."...
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By Louis A. Ruprecht
When the modern Olympic Games were revived they were imbued with a religious and ritualistic significance. How that will be handled by Communist China remains to be seen...
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By Kim Bobo
A rural town in Iowa is the home of the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, a facility that–while already under scrutiny for its poor treatment of workers and animals–was recently the scene of the largest immigration workplace raid in history...
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By Laurie Patton
The exploration of new worlds has traditionally been both liberating and exploitative; can we can break the cycle with Mars?...
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By Mark Hulsether
When one religious voice seems to dominate public
discussion we need to ask why. Is it because it is the only voice speaking? Or
is the media ignoring other voices?...
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By Daniel Schultz
McCain's new ad mocking Obama's charismatic campaign
of hope and the belief that we can do better is being criticized as
'blasphemous' and offensive to liberal Christians...
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By Bill Berkowitz
MoveOn wannabe, Colin Hanna, has found a new platform
for his Obama attack ads: MTV. Aiming to ”plant some seeds of doubt” in the
”younger demographic” a positive org goes negative to push McCain—along with a
border fence, an anti-Jihadist site and a Pastor initiative...
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By Randall Balmer
Iowa senator Charles Grassley, among the first major
success stories of the religious right, opposes abortion and same-sex unions;
So why did the religious right leadership in Iowa deny him a place on the
state's delegation to the upcoming Republican Convention?
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By Mark D. Jordan
Cardinal John Henry Newman, England's most famous
convert to Roman Catholicism, is on his way to sainthood. Is this why the
Vatican is preparing to move his grave and separate him from the friend he
requested to be buried with?
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By Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
What do you hope to accomplish, they ask, meeting with
“those people”?
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By Candace Chellew-Hodge
Bestsellers by the stars of conservative media were
found amongst the belongings of the Knoxville killer. Here is a plea for sanity
to the author of 'Let Freedom Ring'...
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By Louis A. Ruprecht
The original insider memoir, by Procopius of Caesarea,
gave the word 'byzantine' its current meaning...
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By Laurie Patton
When do seemingly manageable ideological differences
within a functioning democracy become something more treacherous?
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By Bill Berkowitz
Barack Obama and John McCain will share a stage for
the first time this August. Their host? Rick Warren, megachurch pastor and
bestselling author—and a man with undeniable political influence...
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By Mary E. Hunt
Do bishops have too much time on their hands?...
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By Laurie Patton
Radovan Karadzic has been hiding in plain sight as a
New Age healer...
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By Mark D. Jordan
First you ordain women, then you consecrate them as
bishops, and—look!—homosexual clergy want to come out of the closet: RD takes a
calm look at the latest quarrel between the long-divorced Anglican Church and
the Vatican...
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By Gabriel Mckee
Comic about an evangelical teen suffers from some
critical flaws...
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By Bill Berkowitz
It all rides on the passage of California’s
anti-same-sex marriage initiative, according to the AFA’s Don Wildmon
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By William Hart
By all accounts, Obama finds anti-Muslim bigotry
offensive. Yet, his behavior during the current presidential campaign leaves a
bad taste in the mouth of Muslims and in the mouths of us who believe that
openness to the religious others is what America must mean.
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By Kim Bobo
A controversial new ruling from an up and coming rabbi
in Conservative Judaism charts a course for a greater focus on worker justice.
Several of its recommendations coincide with crucial legislation favored by the
American labor movement...
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By Nathan Schneider
A leading evangelical takes on the 'God is dead' crowd
in the flagship journal of the conservative movement, but, our writer argues,
neither theists nor atheists will win this argument until they stop
misrepresenting each other and misinforming their readers...
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By Randall Balmer
Evangelicals meet in Denver to pump fists for McCain;
the old leadership wasn't all that was missing...
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By Michael Sean Winters
How religion should, and should not, influence
politics...
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By Lucia Hulsether, Mark Hulsether
Father/daughter dialogue on biblical literalism, Obama
as Antichrist, and God as 'She'...
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By Shawn Francis Peters
When parents choose spiritual healing over medical
care for their ailing children...
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By Michael Leo Owens
Church-state partnerships are a means for black clergy
to reaffirm their political leadership...
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By Ira Chernus
The 'compassionate conservatism' of the Bush era was
based on the idea that 'sinful sloth' leads to poverty, and only religion can
cure such a weakness. But the underpinning of Obama's faith-based plan is
political, not theological...
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By Bill Berkowitz
Obama pledges to remake Bush's faith-based initiative.
No one is pleased...
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By Randall Balmer
Obama's proposal is too timid: How about asking
religious groups to really step up?
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By Anthony B. Pinn
Americans wrestle with the biblical text, but there is
no one correct way to read scripture...
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By Gary Laderman
A romp through America's favorite, most taboo subject;
Sacred sex, the mighty orgasm, and the pleasure and pain of the body...
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By Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
A Jewish theological take on the transhumanist
movement...
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By Nathan Schneider
Mike Myers's latest movie, plagued by interfaith
protests, bad reviews, and a poor showing at the box office, makes us ask, once
again, whether religion is allowed to be funny …
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By Ira Chernus Michael Nagler
Two scholars respond to Shalom Goldman's essay,
'Gandhi, HIs Grandson, Israel, and the Jews.'
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By Stephanie Coontz
Marriage as we know it is a recent invention...
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By Robert P. Jones
The surprising results of the latest Pew survey on
religion in America...
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By Kathryn Lofton
Carlin needed a God, wanted a God, but how could the
Almighty be all-powerful if “everything he ever makes… dies”?
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By Bill Berkowitz
President of the Catholic League tries to blacklist
Obama advisors...
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By Michael A. Elliott E. David Morgen
This four-day rock fest in rural Tennessee is an
endurance event, to be sure, but for many it is a makeshift spritual retreat—a
'vibrational healing ground.' The second in a three part series...
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By Leigh Eric Schmidt
On the 'God-spot,' the psycho-phone, and mapping the
mystical brain...
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By Michael A. Elliott E. David Morgen
In which our intrepid writers let the ethereal sounds
of Sigur Ros ripple and echo through them, and learn to speak 'hopelandic.'
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By Arri Eisen
While fundamentalists bicker, and a Turkish crank
tries to disprove Darwin, a scientist meets a Buddhist who is able to integrate
science and faith...
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By Bill Berkowitz
Author Stephen Mansfield is getting hate mail. Why
does the religious right think that this ex-pastor will roast in hell?
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By Michael A. Elliott E. David Morgen
It's not hedonistic abandon that draws folks to the
rock fest, but something else...
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By Edward J. Blum
Was Du Bois, leading African American intellectual and
civil rights activist, an atheist?
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By Gabriel Mckee
'Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence' in 'Wastelands,' a new anthology of
postapocalyptic fiction...
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By Shalom Goldman
Gandhi's grandson says that Israel promotes a 'culture
of violence': Shalom Goldman tells the little-known backstory...
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By Kent L. Brintnall
Does God really care who wins Big Brother?
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By Bill Berkowitz
Religious Right will back county clerks that refuse to
perform wedding ceremonies after June 17...
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By Christine Wicker
Journalist Christine Wicker thinks that the influence
of the Religious Right, now on the wane, has been disastrous for American
Christianity...
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By Gabriel Mckee
A group named Anonymous has been using electronic
sabotage and staging street demonstrations against Scientology in what may be a
first—an unaffiliated, secular group protesting an entire religion...
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By Rev. Irene Monroe
In the midst of controversy, Episcopal Bishop Gene
Robinson and partner Mark Andrew were joined in a Civil Union...
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By Jane Hunter, Haim Beliak
Army specialist Jeremy Hall, an atheist, discovered an
intolerant fundamentalist culture in the armed services...
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By Nathan Schneider
In The Family Jeff Sharlet explains how a
little-known group links religion and power to cultivate influence...
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By Luke Ssemakula
How do Africa's churches affect its politics? This
anthology sets out to answer the question...
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