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Oral Roberts, Pioneering Christian Zionist

Shalom Goldman.

Famous for his use of TV to spread the message, Oral Roberts—friend of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion—helped to popularize the notion that the newly founded State of Israel was an indication that God still acts in history and that events prophesied in the bible were at hand.

Christians to Conservative Conference: Gays, No! Birchers, Yes!

Candace Chellew-Hodge.

Religious Right leaders are demanding that gay Republicans are excluded while remaining silent on conspiracy-minded John Birch Society.

Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

Nathan Schneider.

Brown sophomore Kevin Roose, an Ivy-league heathen, infiltrated the nation’s holiest university and emerged a changed man—not committed to conservative Christianity, but to finding a new language for reconciliation.

Iowa OKs Gay Marriage, WWCD? (What Will California Do?)

Bill Berkowitz.

Has Iowa adhered to its long history of justice or is preventing two men from marrying each other no different than prohibiting a man from marrying his house plant.

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

Randall Balmer.

Evangelicals meet in Denver to pump fists for McCain; the old leadership wasn't all that was missing...