The New Christianity: What the Mainstream Media Has Missed
To cover a new religious movement, you have to know that the movement exists. An interview with Bruce Wilson.
A response, and a clarification. Palin is not yet out of the public eye...
Double Helix: Pro-Choice, Pro-Human, Pro-God
Evolution has given us the complex, nuanced ability to wrestle with complex issues. If God did drive the process, then surely God wants us to think hard about an issue like abortion...
The thwarted VP nominee is not going quietly. Indeed, she seems to believe in her own sense of personal destiny and mission.
Op-Ed: This Morning After
World-weary cynicism vies with optimism on this day after the presidential election. Optimism wins out.
What does it mean when someone like Sarah Palin uses religious rhetoric to talk about American foreign policy? Is she just provincial, or is she signaling a complete disregard for the principles of liberal democracy?
“The Call” Warns of Antichrist Legislation in California and Beyond
The conservative evangelical founder of “The Call,” Lou Engle, is on a crusade to end legal abortion in the United States. He believes that George W. Bush and his Supreme Court picks were the result of prayer and, as depicted graphically in Jesus Camp, he aims to inspire young evangelicals to defeat the forces of Satan and his legislation.
Ghouls, ghosts, goblins and Halloween Hell Houses; Traditional Values Coalition’s shameless Video Voter Guide; More on Sarah Palin’s religious affiliations; Hagee hears a Who-mageddon; No candy, no soda, no birth control!
Pariah or Charmed Hero: America's Obsession with Jews and Israel
Listening to Palin and Biden, one is reminded that American support for Israel borders on obsessive. The biblical story of the golden calf reminds us that obsession does not usually produce good gods—or good policy.
Godless Liberals: The Myth of the Secular Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was not, as is often assumed, exclusively secular. In fact, religious Protestants, Jews and Catholics played a key role in imagining a tolerant, but believing, society.
RDPulpit: You Lost the Debate
In a debate in which the bar was set so low as to be subterranean, values-related issues were almost entirely ignored.
The biblical heroine Judith used her wiles to political advantage; except Judith did it to save her people. What's Palin's purpose?
The conservative TVC is urging Oprah to host Sarah Palin; the question is, why would that be a good idea?
“Now, I am a reform Christian, so it is permissible for me to secretly believe that God hates [Palin], too. I heard God slam down a couple of shooters while she was talking the other night.”
Small Town Spirituality, Big City Hate: For those with ears to hear it, Sarah Palin's speeches echoed the work of Westbrook Pegler, a mid-century Rush Limbaugh, and then some....
McCain’s choice of Palin was really meant to offer voters a more traditional womanly appeal: part Angel in the House, part sex icon....
The Visceral Vote: Obama-as-Sojourner v. McCain-as-Mythic-Hero
This presidential election has a symbolic sub-plot in which ancient archetypes vie for the American voter's soul...
Sarah Palin and the Clarence Thomas Factor
Feminism is not simply about getting women into positions of power, it is a commitment to change the world—and female anatomy does not a feminist make...
McCain and Obama each had one problematic pastor. Palin has four...
Community Organizing and Symbolic Electioneering
McCain's choice of Palin and her veiled suggestion that Obama's faith-based work might not represent a correct interpretation of either politics or theology are symbolic messages aimed at a specific religious constituency...
Like Bush in 2000 Sarah Palin is delivering a clear message to conservative evangelicals, who get her call for women to view their highest calling in service to male leadership: willing helpmeets to their husbands', fathers' and pastors' authority...
Op-Ed: McCain's VP, Sarah Palin, and 'Feminists for Life'
Joining John McCain on the Republican ticket for the White House is Sarah Palin, a proud member of the anti-choice Feminists for Life; who are they and what do they really support?