Barack Obama Religion

Conservatives who continue to push the idea that a vote for McCain is a vote for God, will only end up losing more and more religious voters who resent being told their faith is inauthentic.

Imagine if I told you four years ago that voters felt John Kerry was friendlier to religion than George Bush? You would say that is crazy and you'd be...

God-o-Meter has learned that the Obama campaign is about to email religious supporters an annoucnement about a new line of Obama faith merchandise--bu...

Obama wasn't the natural choice of some of our Arab-American relatives and friends. I could feel a slight sense of racism whenever his name would come up.

These diametrically opposed, partisan visions of America can never be reconciled because both parties feel that they are fundamentally saving the other party from itself.

In trying to strike a balance between religious voters and those who are fearful of the religious right, McCain has, like Nixon in 1968, embraced those he knows are wrong.

The Barna Group, a Christian research firm, shows Barack Obama leading John McCain by a substantial margin among Christian voters: A new nationwide s...

Can Obama's Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships be what he calls the "moral center" of his administration?

In their eagerness to sell voters on their Christianity, Obama and McCain have forgotten one critical fact: you cannot truly practice what Jesus taught and be successful in politics. After all, it was the politicians of his day who killed Jesus.

In 1981 Barack Obama was 20 years old, a Columbia University student in search of the meaning of life. He was torn a million different ways: between y...

The latest Pew Poll (in which Barack Obama leads John McCain 48-40) asks registered voters what religion they think Barack Obama is. Only 57% say that...

Oh my. The fight against Barack Obama on abortion has officially begun. The Christian Defense Coalition, who are known to shock folks from time to tim...

When James Dobson cites research or statistics in this election cycle, news reporters have an obligation to check with the actual researchers who conducted the studies.

My relationship with the Bush White House ended after my public criticism of the path to war in Iraq. Yet I continued to support the idea and promise of the faith-based initiative.

On June 10, Barack Obama convened a meeting in a law office in downtown Chicago with a wide array of about thirty evangelical leaders, in an unprecedented effort to win their support.

Any proposal to let religious charities be earmarked for federal funding only if they use religious observance as a criterion for endowment is not only reactionary, but it's dangerous thinking.

Many conservative Christians make judgments based on two issues -- abortion and homosexuality. They love to quote the Bible -- so what does it say about these issues?

Obama is standing up to the religious right, saying that when making the laws that govern our nation, we don't turn to the Bible. We base our laws on the only sacred text all Americans worship: The U.S. Constitution.

While I've lambasted Stephen Mansfield for his regurgitation of Christian nationalist American history lies in his book, I now find myself in the peculiar position of defending him a bit.

When Barack Obama apologized in person last week to two women at a rally in Detroit wearing head scarves, he did it only after Rep. Keith Ellison (D-M...

It is inaccurate to call Barack Obama a Muslim. Is it a slur? The Obama campaign suggests it is. A new campaign Web site designed to air and rebut p...

In his Father's Day sermon, Obama made big progress with three tough voter groups, and all without making the slightest reference to any of them.

*** UPDATES TO LIEBERMAN/OBAMA ENCOUNTER BELOW *** More than the last two elections, the religious vote is up for grab between John McCain and Barack...

Pfleger has been thumbing his nose at authority -- secular and sacred -- for years in pursuit of what he believes God has called him to do: fight for the poor and oppressed.

You knew the viral smear emails were headed this way, and a reader sends it along, courtesy of a relative in Syracuse: One of the standard anti-Obama ...