Michael Spencer, who blogs as Internet Monk, is making a splash this week with his prediction
that evangelical faith is in the midst of a major collapse. He says evangelicals will be half as numerous in two generations.

A new national study says...

Tuesday night one American Jesus won. The other lost.

Whether American Christianity will be strengthened or weakened remains to be seen.

As I listened to Barack Obama eschew any note of triumph, praise John McCain as he has so many times, and call for the country to be united, I...

So where were those white evangelicals last night?

From early reports it looks as if they were in about the same place they were four years ago. A little shift, maybe 4 percentage points toward Obama and away from McCain.

But by and large, McCain took about three fourths...

The Religious Right is down. But not out. Leaders are making one last desperate push to deliver the election for John McCain. If he loses, the myth of their unstoppable force will take a body blow from which it may not recover.

Reporters will dutifully report whatever spin the evangelical...

They tried branding Obama the anti-Christ. They tried linking him with Islamic terrorists. They've implied that unknown powers bought his allegiance by financing his education at Ivy League universities. They've used their pulpits to endorse McCain, hoping to spur a fight with the I.R.S. that would rouse their troops.

If you love Jesus, post an Obama sign in your front yard before it's too late. It'll do wonders for your witness.

I learned that and other tips from a meeting in Seattle last weekend focusing on how to save evangelical faith in America. Despite what the media and the...

The greatest part of the vice presidential debate was before it started. It seemed as if everyone all over the country was hurrying through the day to make sure they were tuned in. We were all together before the Great Hearth of America. Sharing the moment. Excited like kids before...

Last week I was awash in admiration for the Republicans. As I have so many other times, I wished I could be a Republican. They are magnificent. If my formative years hadn't included such a strong dose of Jesus and his stubborn, demanding ideas about the poor, I might be...

It was nice to see Bristol and Levi sitting together looking happy at the Republican convention.

Only Nixon could go to China. Maybe only the Republican/Religious Right can dispel the Christian-based shame of unwed teenage pregnancy. I've been telling evangelicals that if they're serious about stopping abortions, they ought to...

I don't know any women like Sarah Palin.

Most of the women I know became far less ambitious when they had just one child. That one child caused them to see their role in life quite differently. I know many women -- doctors, lawyers, journalists, business executives -- who've given...

No vice presidential nominee since Lyndon Johnson has had a significant impact on a presidential election. Biden and Palin aren't likely to either.

Nevertheless, Democrats can rejoice at McCain's choice. Let's just hope that he keeps telling the country his 44-year-old beauty queen is ready to be president.

God...

Ever wonder why Barack Obama agreed to go before an evangelical audience that was certain to be more hostile to him than to his opponent?

Maybe because he is a Christian who thought he could actually talk to other Christians.

Nah. That couldn't...

The applause might make you think John McCain scored the most points at the Saddleback Civil Forum Saturday. His crisp life begins "at conception" answer to the abortion question left the Rev. Rick Warren looking particularly pleased. As cameras panned the crowd, all the people seemed jubilant.

Compare that to...

Pastor Rick Warren's Civil Forum with John McCain and Barack Obama tomorrow could be the most exciting event of the political season. Why? Because the pastor of Saddleback Church isn't a member of the press, and he might not act like one.

That means he might not ask questions...

Here at last. I give you a one-fits-all strategy. Whichever candidate adopts it will be first to the finish line.
Drop Bibles, not bombs.
It's easy to understand. Easy to remember. Has alliteration. Gives everybody something to love.
It's cheap. Cuts big government....

Obama's togetherness message is beginning to cloy, the newspapers say. They're loving him in Europe, of course. He's embodying all that the world wants America to be.

But at home, the pundits are calling for some muscle behind the message. He's mushing out, as the editors say...

How does a transvestite go to the toilet?

No joke. Can anybody tell me?

I don't mean anatomically. I mean location-ly, publicly. When a transvestite is out and about, and feels the call of nature, where does he/she go?

I never thought about it until James Dobson's Focus on...

Don't believe everything you read in the papers. Didn't your mama tell you that?

I'm going to give you one more reason to listen to her.

One out of four Americans says he or she is an evangelical.

In the next four months, you're going to see that...

Remember when George H. W. Bush promised us a kinder, gentler form of Republicanism?

Did that happen?

No.

We're now being told that the Religious Right is becoming a kinder, gentler political force.

Is that happening?

No.

In fact, core supporters of the...

A core 5 percent to 7 percent of Religious Righters are Republican theocrats, heart and soul. They will vote for McCain, even though they can hardly stomach him; they have no one else to vote for this year. For the McCain campaign the challenge is how to rouse them.